In today's news...

[Turrican]

I will refer you to my earlier post:

Now, since it's bothering you so much. Spreading awareness on this forum reached it's limit anyway. So at this point it's just whining because you need to let steam out. Other than main social media, there isn't too many places to spread this.
And for every 1000 people reached, around 20-50 will actually talk about it... and 5-8 will start doing something.
Welcome to the grim reality, where until boiling point is reached, people don't care. And no, this is nowhere near boiling point, not even close.

It's already finished. the European DMCA (even worse) won.

 

[Lv1VillagerA]

Is politico.eu a trusted source? That article is an analysis based on documents from this website. I want to read these compromise proposals myself but the first link they give is a frikking word document (how am I supposed to trust them after that? Those documents are meant to be modified: no way in hell a journalist would do that.).

Took 1 minute to get what looks like a better source of information:

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[Turrican]

At this point it takes a miracle.

 

[Lv1VillagerA]

I don't think we need the EU for Google, Amazon, Twitter, etc. to go rogue. At worse it will only legitimize their already existing, growing, and not so user-friendly practices (it's not like they ever cared about their own rules or the existing laws). I, for one, welcome our new DMCA bot overlords. I would like to remind them that as a trustworthy internet user I will respect intellectual property and that I can...
JK, I'll just go back to Tor. I don't need no copyright. Arrr.

 

[Turrican]

I don't think we need the EU for Google, Amazon, Twitter, etc. to go rogue. At worse it will only legitimize their already existing, growing, and not so user-friendly practices (it's not like they ever cared about their own rules or the existing laws). I, for one, welcome our new DMCA bot overlords. I would like to remind them that as a trustworthy internet user I will respect intellectual property and that I can...
JK, I'll just go back to Tor. I don't need no copyright. Arrr.

Can you explain what it means?
Unfortunately my English is disgusting.

 

[Yoshiiki]

I don't think we need the EU for Google, Amazon, Twitter, etc. to go rogue.

Depending on perspective, they already achieved that milestone.
But yeah, I know what you mean... Then again, you are forgetting who pretty much owns Internet and TOR was compromised in a way.

 

[Lv1VillagerA]

Who owns the internet? ISPs or whoever owns the infrastructure I guess?
Yeah, things might become a little problematic if there's a join effort to sabotage the internet.

TOR should more that enough to protect me for greedy companies, only governments will fight against it. But the more they try to limit the internet, the more people will come up with ways to pass through.
There's also the risk of pirates taking over whatever system they built so I don't think they will be as stupid as to go too far (especially if they start to lose money while the whole point of copyright is to gain money)....

Crap, did I just assumed people are not stupid?

 

[Yoshiiki]

Who owns the internet? ISPs or whoever owns the infrastructure I guess?
Yeah, things might become a little problematic if there's a join effort to sabotage the internet.

Correct, plus a lot of silicon valley. Nah, there won't be such effort, it would require for all of them to have same standards, morals and ideals... Oh...

TOR should more that enough to protect me for greedy companies, only governments will fight against it. But the more they try to limit the internet, the more people will come up with ways to pass through.
There's also the risk of pirates taking over whatever system they built so I don't think they will be as stupid as to go too far (especially if they start to lose money while the whole point of copyright is to gain money)....

Well, TOR never was some community created element, it was acquired by such. With TOR you still have same issue: You need nodes and those nodes need to be connected.

Crap, did I just assumed people are not stupid?

I would rather say "they don't care now" but that could be as well same thing xD

 

[Turrican]

When voting for the final vote at the beginning of the year, Europe has only 2 or 3 years of free internet.

 

[Cyriel]

To be fair, the internet isn't a tangible thing that can be owned by anyone, and yet it's divided up between only a handful of people. That alone is kind of concerning.
What bothers me far more than that is that this is the first i'm hearing about it. I do follow stuff like this rather closely but this isn't really displayed anywhere or at least not in the way it should be.

 

[Turrican]

The important thing is that they do not block porn and hentai that those are legal.

Maybe I'll laugh.

Enough I'm going to Switzerland.

 

[XSI]

It´s also keeping people here up to date on this issue that he clearly cares about, and I appreciate that

But it seems this is just another case of incompetent fools trying to make rules for things they don't understand, and refusing to do any research, in such an early state of the process that it doesn't mean anything just yet

 

[XSI]

Double posting because of this gem of important news

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Pranksters have turned a giant bicycle created to celebrate the Tour of Britain into a giant penis.

 

[MrMe]

Cornwall must be a very boring place

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[Pervy]

Cornwall must be a very boring place

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Don't diss 'em, I kinda wanna go through that tunnel now. And look how far this news has reached. I'm a german, reading in an american porn forum. That tunnel has some serious tourism powers even if it is a meme. It's on the frigging BBC.

 

[Yoshiiki]

Cornwall must be a very boring place

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"Some people obviously thought it would be fun to rearrange the spokes and the wheels."

He added: "It's created quite a bit of a buzz and it's shone a bit more attention on to what the bike was there for."

No one cared who I was until they turned me into a giant penis.

 

[MrMe]

So the mega extension for Chrome was compromised a few days ago, although a fixed update was uploaded hours later the same day

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[XSI]

Swedish elections!
...Are a sad joke, banana republic levels of failure with loads of inconsistencies and problems reported

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"The Danish politician and OSCE election monitor Michael Aastrup Jensen says that in all his years as an election monitor, he has never seen an election as undemocratic as the Swedish one, which he says is far below the Swedish standard. Jensen is foreign policy spokesperson for the liberal government party Venstre in Denmark, and has acted election monitor in Russia and other Eastern European countries."

So even compared to Russian elections, the Swedish elections were considered to be terrible

 

[Cyriel]

This stood out a bunch.
Turns out that when you die, you're still given a ton of rights, including not having your sperm extracted in order to artificially inseminate your significant other (unless its in written permission )

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[Yoshiiki]

This stood out a bunch.
Turns out that when you die, you're still given a ton of rights, including not having your sperm extracted in order to artificially inseminate your significant other

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To be correct, you aren't given them, some rights are moved over due to us being civilized.
However, this type of issue sounds like huge emotional trauma and would be better solved by poor widow finding a new partner while getting some help.