What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Its ok Ray... so am I. Also... on an unrelated note... how do I ban Ray?

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Pet peeve.

The story of my FFXI life.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

TM's Peeve, tl;dr: talk is cheap. Too cheap.

I mean, you basically can't get any cheaper than "free" . . .

[Murphie]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Its ok Ray... so am I. Also... on an unrelated note... how do I ban Ray?

I think you steal his Rani.

[Raydeus]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I think you steal his Rani.

Thank you for this. It provided me a solid 5 minutes of LOL

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

on an unrelated note... how do I ban Ray?

I'm also interested in this. For academic reasons.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

TM's Peeve, tl;dr: talk is cheap. Too cheap.

I mean, you basically can't get any cheaper than "free" . . .

Yeah, there's nothing worse than free spee- ahhh crap.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Peeve: The bill in Congress (specific number as soon as I find it again) that would make the use of any Copywritten material used within a youtube video punishable by a fine and/or worse.

Example: You post a video of yourself singing "Put a ring on it" with the actual song playing in the background. You can now be fined for copywrite infringment.

As a popular YouTuber already pointed out... this would make Justin Bieber's first videos subject to the same possible punishment. I'm not saying I wouldn't LOL at Justice Beaver in jail... but for everyone else? Good bye freedom...

The notion of free speech reminded me of this.

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

While we're at it, fuck software patents.

[Taskmage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Not only a fine but jail time. It'd be a felony.

I'm not sure of my opinion on copyrights in general as an incentive to innovate, but I think it's obvious that there is a point at which copyright law does more to stifle innovation than to encourage it, and if we are not already past that point then we are trying our damnedest to get there as a nation. Blah blah blah state-corporate complex yadda yadda #OccupyStuff etc etc.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Peeve: The bill in Congress (specific number as soon as I find it again) that would make the use of any Copywritten material used within a youtube video punishable by a fine and/or worse.

Example: You post a video of yourself singing "Put a ring on it" with the actual song playing in the background. You can now be fined for copywrite infringment.

As a popular YouTuber already pointed out... this would make Justin Bieber's first videos subject to the same possible punishment. I'm not saying I wouldn't LOL at Justice Beaver in jail... but for everyone else? Good bye freedom...

The notion of free speech reminded me of this.

That is fucked up.

Get me that bill number or a link. I want to write my congress person about this one.

[Yygdrasil]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Looking for it. Gimme a sec. I had it a min ago. Bill: S.978

Related: WSJ: Internet Censorship: S.978 Could Put Bieber in Jail

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Philip DeFranco (the popular YouTube star I mentioned earlier) reported on this the other day and managed to explain it really simply.

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Get me that bill number or a link. I want to write my congress person about this one.

I already sent my letter.

The way I (and many others) see it is... if this bill were passed it would open the flood gates and drown our free speech. First they copywrite background music in YouTube Videos... whats to stop them from imprisoning you for writing Beyonce's name on a blog? How about lyrics.com? God forbid I hum anything by LMFAO in public...

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I think I've identified the problem:

We're limiting all the kinds of speech that shouldn't be limited, while we let corporate media get away with defamation against reality.

You think it's possible to get the Supreme Court to rule that reality is considered a person, too?

[Armando]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

...but I think it's obvious that there is a point at which copyright law does more to stifle innovation than to encourage it, and if we are not already past that point then we are trying our damnedest to get there as a nation.

We're there already.

Or for the tl;dr version watch 5:05-5:45 of part 1 and 2:25-4:40 of part 2.