TWiT 332: Bad News Bearers

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Nilay Patel, Harry McCracken and Andy Ihnatko

SOPA/PIPA, UMG/Megaupload, UI designer shortage, chip tweaking, driving distractions, and more.
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Running time: 02:14:27

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[olegkikin]

Nilay Patel still didn't answer how *any* legislation will stop the piracy. SOPA won't. You can still access thepiratebay. If they block the DNS record for it, you can still access it by IP: 194.71.107.15. SOPA or any other legislation would be a power grab by the recording industry, it will only make the internet shittier. It's not going to stop the piracy.

[CeeRoyJenkins]

I wanna punch the guy on the left in the face

[carusk]

Non-US internet user here,

WTF stop imposing american law and ideals on the rest of the world!

[carrefamily01]

The guy on the right reminds me of that piece of shit rush limbaugh. Completely deviates from topic. What does speed of light and the electron have to do with legal legislation? I don't like SOPA but to say everything should be shared freely is retarded.

[XenoGenome]

People pirate because it is cheap and easy. If it were easily possible to legally download unlimited amounts of movies and music for a small subscription fee, I'd be willing to pay for that.

This is an option that is still not available in my country though...

[kungfu71186]

In fact here is what I'm taking about, Humble_Indie_Bundle, look it up on wiki

[kungfu71186]

Uhhhh, "He already had a big cannon". Really? This doesn't matter. I can show you examples of games on steam where they say pay what you want. If you want to pay $0 or $10, then that's up to you and guess what? These games made a ton of money.

[igeekone]

People love DRM and it works?! Umm, NO! DRM only inconveniences law abiding people. People don't hate DRM because they don't know about it, the Netflix stream just works. But as soon as you run into a problem DRM is always hated.

[SonnOfNeil]

They're BITS! Its over!

[NikoKun]

I can't wait for high quality 3D printers to be cheap and common.. It's going to tear apart the outdated concepts of IP and Copyright. Those concepts had their place, and were once important, but now and in the future, new systems/methods will need to be created, around open standards and the undeniable certainty that if someone wants to copy something or recreate it for free, you cannot stop them. But maybe I'm talking about something which requires a full redesign of society and economics..

[Kreadus005]

There is no solution. Even if you declare a worldwide interface that identifies the media perfectly prior to transmission and gets a license grant from some Orwellian central information Holy Synod, then I will send random static to my destination. The static will be re-interpreted as the Lion King by a machine implicitly defined between sender and receiver.

There IS NO WAY TO STOP THIS. Only to make it inconvenient.

[Kreadus005]

Go Leo!