Yea, and I have some ocean front property to sell you in Vegas. I'll sell it REALLY cheap.

Are you really that stupid?

Because encrypted data that can't be unencrypted is useless.

I don't think you understand the idea of sharing if you think handing someone a blob of randomness and saying 'its encrypted!' is what sharing is.

Dotcom uses websites to profit from people sharing files that they shouldn't be sharing. If you still don't understand that, stop reading now, theres no way anything on this post or entire thread will make sense to you.

In order for people to give a flying fuck about his website ... where he makes money off ads ... they have to be able to decrypt whatever is on the site. That information is more or less made public, in which case, its trivial for anyone to figure out whats on the site.

Why is it so difficult to understand that other people kind find warez on the Internet just like you can?

People that need to legitimately share things do it in a far less complicated way.

You need to do some research, hell even google can solve this in one short search.

Our hairless bodies coupled with some nice quirks of our hips make us the undisputed long distance runners.

That dog you're chasing can't run a marathon, it'll over heat. It might out run you for what you think is a long distance, but people can run all day long without so much as a break, no other animal can, none even come close.

You could not possibly be more incorrect.

Humans are the most efficient running animals on the planet. We can literally run down ANY creature on the surface of the Earth. We can literally kill creatures by running them into heat exhaustion and in fact still do in many parts of the world such as Australia and the plains of Africa.

We aren't the fastest, but we are by far the most efficient long distance runners to exist.

Most (not all, but certainly most) obese people don't have metabolism problems they have gluteny problems. They are fat asses, nothing more.

When the famine comes around, said person who is inshape will out last Mr Obese lazy bastard because the guy who can run, can beat out the fat guy.

The fat won't keep him alive long enough to get in shape and compete with the guy who already is. The fat guy won't have the skills to compete for food either.

Contrary to popular believe, being obese doesnt' help you survive food shortages in any way.

It may be tempting, but its certainly shines of ignorance.

There is no other animal on the planet that can run for the distances we can. We are the definitive long distance runners of the planet. Our ancestors on the plains of Africa hunted not by being quicker than other animals but by running them down until heat exhaustion took its toll and practically killed them without a weapon.

I didn't RTFA but the summery sounds like regurgitation of shit I've known since high school.

We aren't built to be lazy, we're efficient as shit.

When are you morons going to realize that these online petitions are worse than meaningless?

Why do you think your signature means anything. You aren't going to vote differently, its obvious from the last couple of elections that people bitch about politicians and then do nothing to effect change. There is no reason for anyone to give a flying fuck what signature your petition is on. Worse still is you're not bright enough to realize how easy it is to fake said petitions, making them even less useful.

There is no effort in collecting online petitions, you just put a form up one SOMEONE ELSES website. Starting a petition this way, and 'running it' requires zero effort and thats exactly the kind of response you'll get.

Signing a petition ... ESPECIALLY AN ONLINE PETITION FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR CHAIR just shows exactly how little you care about the issue.

You aren't going to get more back out of it than you put in, thats not the way the universe works.

If you want to effect change, its going to take a whole hell of a lot more than clicking 'I agree' on some retarded website.

What you're trying to accomplish here is creating a public utility.

You don't want a utility to be powered by random people. You want a utility to be government regulated. You may think regulation and the government are bad and evil and blah blah but the reason you're trying to create a wireless network based on home systems is because the unregulated commercial sector has failed to provide a sane alternative.

Its worse than that though, the commercial sector is actively working to ensure that no such utility is created even when they are fully unwilling to do so when requested as is obvious when various municipalities try to create their own networks.

Yes ... reject permissions and promote anarchy! And while you're doing it, do it with a license that restricts people and only grants them permission to use it in specific ways!

GPL is far from free, ESPECIALLY in this context.

So basically you released everything as 'All rights reserved for copyright holder', which is the default.

Your small protest against the 'permissions culture' just contributed too it, as did your ignorance of the world you live in. Congratulations.

In the US ... the point is ... EVERYTHING is licensed the instant its created and the creator holds ALL rights. That is by default.

Just because you 'slap a license' on someones code doesn't mean you hold copyright on it. What you're implying is no different than taking the Linux kernel and putting my own personal license on it.

Having a 'license' doesn't mean you hold the copyright.

You completely utterly fail to understand basic common sense about the way the world works.

Do that more than once or twice and I'll have the grounds for suing you for using predatory practices and abusing the legal system itself.

There are solutions for trolls even if you don't always see them.

The precedent was set. The lawyers on both sides made a fair amount of money off your fathers business. He got screwed.

No, it isn't.

Your agenda is to use OSS against commercial software makers, but that isn't the point of open source.

Thats what RMS tries his absolute hardest to corrupt the term to mean, along with Free and Libre but that doesn't mean thats what everyone with a brain thinks.

Wrong.

Using someone elses stuff without asking permission first is rude.

Pre-1976 it simply wasn't illegal to be rude. The 'change of default' you refer to is to make it clear that just because I didn't say you couldn't use it doesn't mean its okay for you to use it because you happen to come across it. The change was made to prevent things from being co-opted by snakes.

The change occurred for the same idiotic reason the original rubbish about 'pushing back against a permissions culture', idiotic people twisting the normal around in a way to get what they want rather than actually being considerate.

Unlicensed code on github isn't there because of some anti-permissions culture movement this moron dreamt up.

Unlicensed code on github is unlicensed because the author hasn't bothered to make a public statement allowing use of their stuff. They just haven't gotten around to it. It has nothing to do with some retarded OSS based fantasy about the world suddenly ceasing to using licenses, or to dump the concepts of copyright and intellectual property.

STOP assuming everyone else has your agenda. Stop assuming they are fine with you deciding they mean to givie away their stuff.