Means it's time for a revolution   They really don't fear us anymore.  We need to remind them why they should.

See how Casascius coins work.

Do no fear your government.  Your government should be pissing their pants with the thought of you.

Private security businesses and arbitrators (which take the place of police and the justice system.)  This video can explain it quite well.

Edit:  Whups, goofed up on the URL

The comments.    Faith in humanity permanently restored.

Sure, I don't see why not.  If they wanted to shoot themselves in the foot by taking on U.S. copyright, or shell out all the cash to staff the workers required to respond to copyright infringement claims in a timely manner, or attempt to improve their automatic recognition of songs, they could do that.  It's just, Google isn't charging for any of their services, and YouTube's included in that.  They could do anything to improve their current status so as to not piss off their users.  But whatever they do, it will cost them, and that's not something any business wants to do if they can avoid it.

The point I'd like to make is this: if people didn't have a stick up their ass about copyright, Google wouldn't have to worry about it to begin with.  They would be dishing out the cash to put up with someone else's rules.  Should the proponents of copyright not pay Google to enforce the rules they're pushing on them?  If we were to agree that those who want this rule should be the ones who pay for it to happen, then we can also agree that Google's inability to provide a quality auto-song checker is a direct result of copyright advocates wanting their cake and eating it, too.  They want the rule enforced, but don't want to pay for it to be correctly enforced.

Thus, it's not Google's fault that they're providing a shit copyright checker; they didn't have to provide one at all.  If anything, copyright holders should be getting in contact with copyright violators directly, instead of yelling at Google to solve their problems.  Google is merely providing a service and should not be held accountable whatsoever for what another individual does, and yet they are, which leads to the problem we're facing now.

The alternative would be a huge amount of staff, in various languages, to review every single copyright complaint thoroughly to ensure all videos are in proper accordance with local copyright law.  This would be great for creating jobs, but, frankly, this would be extremely expensive.

On another note, I personally completely reject copyright and release all of my creative work under a very loose creative commons license or public domain.  So there's always copyright supporters (in this case, the music industry) to direct general annoyance toward


No, Google doesn't have to, just like I don't have to pay taxes.  It's all a mind game, really.  If Google wanted, they could join me and my rag-tag gang of liberty lovers and go all out on America's oppressive regime   So far, they don't seem all together interested, outside of a dislike of SOPA and CISPA (I could be wrong about CISPA...)  Anyway, we all know what happens down this road, and it's never fun.  It can make life Hell, actually--more than it already is, anyhow.

America's got more presence than you could imagine.  For example: TPB.  Doing fine in Sweden.  Sweden gets its arm twisted by America and its western cohorts.  Suddenly Sweden doesn't like TPB anymore.  The creator's doing unlawful jail time, too.  Since Google likes money, and doesn't like getting on the wrong side of the law, they're going to want to do as America wants.

Otherwise, they wouldn't care.  They have no incentive to uphold someone else's rule at their own expense, outside of legal trouble; arm twisting.  They do not make money by screwing with their users.

That's just it; we couldn't if we wanted to.  There's no place on this planet in which the state does not creep.  The only place I can think of currently is Somalia, but I predict, if they improve enough, and enough people leave to go live there, they'll get tossed around by some country's government or another and a state will be installed against people's will, until they tire themselves out and finally accept whichever country decides to take over.

That's why we need people to understand why the alternative is better.  To change the status quo, we need people.  No individual can begin a society.  Not a hundred people.  Not a thousand people.  It takes a large effort, and to uproot the state, you need a huge amount of people, a nation's worth, all on the same page, all educated to a point where the state is unnecessary.  As long as state proponents outweigh state opponents, there's not a lot of choice in the matter.  That's the point.  That's the state.  There's no choice in the matter.

Devil's been burned on these deals more than you could guess

YouTube is only doing that because it has to.  You can thank dinosaur government and entertainment industry lobbying for that

Don't get scammed, folks.

How can you prove OP still has their soul?  I can name plenty of people (mostly politicians) who no longer have one.

We have the technology.

Let's say Joe, Bill, and Sarah decide they want Road X to be repaired.  They go to a website (something similar to kickstarter) in which they post the job they want done, and set down a little bit of cash to entice prospective contractors.  More people who drive on Road X notice it needs repair and see the listing, and "back" the project to get the job done.  Meanwhile, more businesses have noticed people are chipping in to get Road X repaired, and are auctioning with each other to get the job (example: company X will do the job for $500, then company Y says they'll do it for $450, on and on until nobody wants to bid lower.)  Once enough "backers" pitch in the amount of money that the lowest bidding company agreed to do the job for, the project is funded and Road X gets repaired by the winning company, paid by the people who wanted the road to be fixed.

So it's like a two-way kickstarter; citizens add money to a pool, and businesses fight over who gets the work.  This can be applied to any non-emergency service government provides.

Emergency services is where it gets even more creative; here's one method to handle security.

America's war against the American citizen.

That's okay man, and I know how you feel.  These debates can wear you out he he

I offered future Nevada governor VanDerBeek some Bitcoin to support his campaign.  I've yet to hear from him back tho, but it seems right up his alley.

Ahh gotcha, thanks  Doesn't sound preferable, to be honest.  It would be like a monotheistic religion cutting back to only having a little bit of God.  At some point in time, that little bit of God will become a whole lot of God, and then it's back to square one.

I did say please, didn't it?  I'm asking you to see it my way; I'm not using force.  If I were using force, I'd be at your house, banging on your door, threatening you to open and accept my ideologies as God-given truth or I'd burn your house down with you inside of it.

I believe this is our disconnect; you're still shaky on what "the use of force" is and is not.  It's the difference between voluntarism (e.g., you coming to this site was voluntary, whatever you decided to have for lunch was voluntary, doing a little jig on your dining room table was probably voluntary), and coercion.  In other words, stateless (voluntary) and state (coercion; force; involuntary.)

P.s., I have no idea what night-watch-state is, but it doesn't sound like something I'd like.

When I closed my PayPal account, I basically told them I was ditching for Bitcoin instead (along with a slew of other insults for various reasons, revolving around PayPal favoring scammers and ID thieves over me.)

Glad to see he listened

As John said.  Those are your two options.  Because credit cards can be charged back, and Bitcoin can't, it's a gamble to sell Bitcoin for CC/PayPal.