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Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 361

by themacks (#57285020) Attached to: Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims

with net neutrality, content publishers and distributors get to peer directly with an isp and flood their network with whatever data the content provider wants.

Content publishers don't get settlement-free peering by default. Peering agreements are usually only settlement-free if the traffic is symmetrical or each party receives an equal benefit. Content publishers have to pay for their internet access the same as anybody else, albeit they generally have a little more negotiating power than you or I would.

Comment Re:Perversion of the law's intent (Score 1) 371

by themacks (#32824736) Attached to: AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra'
They can generate ongoing income because they created something of value to others. Artists most definitely can get royalties if they produce something that others license from them. More than likely if you buy a painting in a store it isn't an original but a licensed reproduction. Joe Taxi-driver is making money from providing a service, if he stops providing the service he stops making money.
Censorship

Submission + - Google reveals government data requests (bbc.co.uk)

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themacks writes: "From the article: "Google has released details about how often countries around the world ask it to hand over user data or to censor information. Brazil tops the list with 3,663 data requests while the US made 3,580 and the UK came a distant third with 1,166.""

Comment Re:Insufficient data for meaningful answer (Score 4, Informative) 256

by themacks (#31937396) Attached to: More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux
the interesting bits from the script:

UNAME=`uname`
if [ "$UNAME" == "Darwin" ]; then
PLATFORM=osx32 # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
PLATFORM=linux32
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi

Comment Re:He has no case (Score 1) 646

by themacks (#28901757) Attached to: Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions
I agree that the right to change the service would be found to be legal, however there are still stipulations to that clause. For some changes the provider has to provide a notice in advance to the changes. There also isn't anyway to know that courts would see the removal of the book as a change to the service. That being the case, this clause is irrelevant.

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