This Week In Techdirt History: June 26th – July 2nd
from the back-in-the-day dept
Five Years Ago
This week in 2017, Zillow got very angry about the McMansion Hell blog and sent a ridiculous legal threat, then followed up with a second equally wrong letter, then finally kinda-sorta backed down a little bit after the EFF got involved. The copyright office was recognizing that the DMCA is a problem for security research, and also somewhat inadvertently admitted that the law is more about giving Hollywood control than stopping infringement. We also saw one of the worst approaches to patent reform imaginable in Senator Coons’s STRONGER Patent Act.
Ten Years Ago
This week in 2012, Miami Heat owner Ranaan Katz sued Google and a blogger claiming copyright infringement over an unflattering photo, then doubled down and threatened to sue the lawyer defending the blogger. The EU Commissioner revealed he planned to simply ignore any rejection of ACTA by the European Parliament, and Parliamentarian Marielle Gallo called ACTA dissent “a soft form of terrorism”, while Australia’s parliament committee issued its recommendation to reject the deal. Meanwhile, the USTR was giving the MPAA full access to the TPP text while still refusing to share it with Senate staffers and denying Rep. Issa’s request to observe negotiations, while still ridiculously claiming it was being transparent.
Fifteen Years Ago
This week in 2007, Senator Feinstein was seeking some sort of return of the Fairness Doctrine, and was soon joined by Senator Durbin. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was still focused on throwing people in jail for attempted piracy, the MPAA was suing sites for linking to infringing content, a new case against the RIAA asked questions about the legality of its investigation techniques, and we saw what happens without safe harbor protections as an Australian ISP deleted all user multimedia files.
Comments on “This Week In Techdirt History: June 26th – July 2nd”
It looks like one of the UK’s largest antipiracy initiatives might soon be dissolved, because apparently copyright enforcers can’t be bothered to pay the fees needed to maintain an LLP.
Re: Just as reliable as the setting of the sun
Forget nuclear clocks, a much more accurate way to set your clock is by waiting for the very groups who scream about how vital it is to follow the law and how even the slightest violation is a terrible crime worthy of hefty punishments to themselves violate or otherwise ignore the law.
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It was 19:20 in the evening when Prenda did that.
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gdpr popups...
seems https://meshpage.org has now implemented gdpr cookie popups => everyone should go that direction and check them out…
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Fuck off, spambot.
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That’s not fair, spambots are programmed to act that way and have no other choice and as such don’t deserve to be lumped in with tp.
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More to the point: spambots are honest.
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Spambots also do not screech about how copyright maximalism is good, either.
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Nor about how copyright should be destroyed without a word about how it’s maximalism that’s fucking things up for everyone.
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Nice try, John Smith.
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If anything, saying your site has a cookie popup gives everyone another reason to avoid your site. Nobody likes those things, not even the people who make them.
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So the situation where I was too lazy or unskilled to implement the cookie popup would be better for my web site?
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I don’t respond to otherwording, Spambot.
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I’m still waiting for evidence that you’re skilled at anything other than spamming up the comments sections on Techdirt, TBH.
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Re: Re: Re:2
It takes certain kind of professional to find evidence where other people think is just random noise. Maybe your tentacles need some adjustment.
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Or maybe you need to be skilled enough to post some evidence where I can find it. Did you ever think of that one?
Re: Re: Re:4
That’s the problem: Tero doesn’t think.
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right. its all automatic, coming from my extensive experience with software development.
Re: Re: Re:6 I guess you are smart enough to avoid the spam filter so there’s that…
That’s the thing. You are doing the job of a spambot but less effectively and with more user aggravation.
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You are doing the job of a spambot, but less effectively and with more user aggravation.
Not really. I personally find terop to be more boring than aggravating, the rare exception being when he goes on the attack, whereupon he becomes extremely entertaining. 😆
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And the results?
Not exactly promising.
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Depends on how effective the defence is.
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I’ve played his “games”.
I’ve played better DEMOS on itch.io.
The only way to get me to play them again is to pay me a trillion dollars.
I will nit even look at his abortion of a website, sorry, “meshpage” for any less.
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In Tero’s own testimonies, $48 made over 10 years. Of which $2 was from ad money on itch.io and the rest was made on Fiverr teaching “idiots” how to use software that wasn’t even related to Meshpage. Which is why he’s still here bitching and moaning that the government of Finland hasn’t sucked him off yet.
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I’ve got one.
It’s because the government of Finland is actually giving money to actual companies making ACTUAL PRODUCTS, like Colossal Games and Cities Skyline.
Tero here is making Finland, software development (both FOSS and proprietary devs), web development AND game development look bad.
He’s almost as bad as Derek Smart. Now all he needs to do is lose to a vending machine…
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If these companies have N employees, they need to build N times larger systems than what I can do. And then govt obviously gives them N times more money.
You always need to compare this to the size of the team involved. Noone expects your cat to be able to outcode cities skyline.
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So even you know and recognize that the system is working as intended.
The government is under no obligation to compensate you for working alone because you hate the existence of other humans.
Actually, given that you hate other humans so much, you really shouldn’t expect compensation from the people you hate.
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You have to understand that N times $48 isn’t too much in the direction of “system is working as intended”. If they need to keep N people team up and running with N*$48, I don’t really know where you’re buying food from? American macdonalds isn’t selling food that cheap. Maybe russia’s “Vkusno i Tochka” might be so cheap that $48 lets them eat for 10 years…
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Exponential multipliers are a thing. Or they could simply reward people based on their code actually having core functionality. You, on the other hand, have boasted on multiple occasions that your code is only there to look nice and not actually have core functionality, because you’re dumb enough to think that’s all everyone cares about.
You should really just emigrate at this point if you think giving Putin a blowjob is that lucrative. He could always use another bottom bitch slut like you.
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The requirement for getting it to look nice is already enough challenge for one person. If single pixel from the output is wrong colour, the end users are screaming for replacing the whole screen. The accuracy level of getting every pixel correct color is (rgba)^{sxsy}, which is significantly more than there is atoms in the observable universe. And that’s just single frame, every second there’s 120 of these so the real number is 120num_of_seconds(rgba)^{sxsy}… That’s the challenge to get every pixel correct colour.
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Tough shit. You chose to undertake a task that normally takes a full team to pull off efficiently, and pull off well. Your decision to do it singlehandedly does not entitle you to payment, especially when you do a shit job of it.
Yes, and they’re well within rights to do so. Pixel death is detrimental for the user experience.
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You are lazy and unskilled.
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Re: See tero this bot gets it. It post, we flag, no one cares.
Your posts however are about as wanted as a case of the clap.
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Actually, I would welcome a case of the clap because at least you can get rid of that with the correct treatment! 😜