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• On the post: Is 'This Time Different' Concerning Big Internet Dominance?

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 03 Jul, 2019 @ 01:17am

  The problem is these companies can ignore all economic reason with a bag of money.
  It's difficult to compete if you're working to pay this months rent and the competition has lots of money they can loose.

• On the post: Congress Now Pushing 'Bring Back The Patent Trolls' Bill

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 29 May, 2019 @ 11:44pm

  Chine

  Let's hope China is really blocked. Innovation could survive behind the trade war blockades.

• On the post: One Year Into The GDPR: Can We Declare It A Total Failure Yet?

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 26 May, 2019 @ 07:47am

  Re: GDPR

  I believe it's the law of Kamphuis: If the lawmakers keep failing, it's not because they are stupid, but because they have other goals.

• On the post: You Don't Own What You've Bought: Google Nest Edition

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 21 May, 2019 @ 03:25pm

  Re: Re: Love technology.. except..

  Once I heard a talk from a manufacturer of machines on ships. They used Unix because they had an expected lifespan of 30 years. It was SUNOS at the time....

• On the post: You Don't Own What You've Bought: Google Nest Edition

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 21 May, 2019 @ 03:33pm

  Updates.,..

  I read a story sometime ago over airplanes....
  Now I have two thoughts with every update:

  1. What was wrong with my device (could it have killed me before?)
  2. When will they make this device obsolete.

• On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2019 @ 01:05pm

  Re: Re:

  But the fact is ignored that republican politicians really like moderators, because "moderation saves our children from terrorism".

• On the post: German Publishing Giant Claims Blocking Ads Is Copyright Infringement, In Yet Another Lawsuit Against The Industry Leader

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2019 @ 05:03am

  It's not about the money,

  It's about absolute control over their customers.

• On the post: DOJ Warns Academy That Being An Anti-Streaming Luddite Could Violate Antitrust

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2019 @ 04:57am

  Re:

  It's no bribery. It's payment the greatest movie commercial on earth for a service.

• On the post: DOJ Warns Academy That Being An Anti-Streaming Luddite Could Violate Antitrust

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2019 @ 04:43am

  Antitrust should be this way more often

  Let competitors organise, then you can force them into competitive behaviour like this If you wait until they are merged into mega corporations, there is nothing that can be done.
  How much easier life would have been for antitrust if Google, Facebook or the cable companies were only examples of many cooperating companies. Cooperating with protocols, not fighting with containers.

• On the post: Here Comes The Splinternet: How The EU Is Helping Break Apart The Internet

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2019 @ 08:44am

  Re:

  If you follow the theory "copyright is brain damage" https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc you could say that Twitter is a cancer that pulls in all discussion into non relevant topics. Maybe that is something society can do without.

• On the post: Here Comes The Splinternet: How The EU Is Helping Break Apart The Internet

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2019 @ 04:40am

  Could be good...

  I've read your push for protocols. This could be the push towards P2P protocols. Or at least the end of world wide universal containers.
  People volunteering in their communities in stead of fighting on Twitter. People making movies without their audiences being swept away by Hollywood marketing.
  Anybody interested in P2P-social media to share some memes?

• On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2019 @ 09:14am

  Re: Re: Re: BANNING MEMES

  And you can't wave copyright, so using copyleft stuff isn't going to help.

• On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2019 @ 09:03am

  Re: Filters are censorship

  At least there will be a lot of spare bandwidth.

• On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2019 @ 01:58pm

  Re: The real goal.

  But let's be optimistic: if France introduces this law fast enough, it breaks down before it's implemented in other countries.

• On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2019 @ 01:48pm

  Re: Re:

  Or your ISP has presence in France. And the French foreign army is quite famous. The terrain in Alabama isn't that much more difficult than in Africa.

• On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 28 Mar, 2019 @ 01:56pm

  The real goal.

  Very convenient. New censorship, just when the army is shooting at people in yellow vests. You'll see they declare protests to be a sporting event covered by the new copyright declared in the same directive.

• On the post: New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 26 Mar, 2019 @ 04:22am

  Very scary

  Of course, these people probably are no good. But please keep in mind that everybody looks bad in the papers if they get arrested.
  Arresting people for random offences because they look bad, is what makes a police state.

• On the post: How To Actually Break Up Big Tech

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 13 Mar, 2019 @ 01:06am

  Re: Re:

  IPFS is no blockchain, it's a distributed hashtable. But indeed, there could be applications in contact law, the basis of blockchain is the partners can't be trusted, and efficient distribution is based on some kind of trust.

• On the post: AI Writes Article About AI: Does The Newspaper Hold The Copyright?

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2019 @ 12:14am

  Re: AI feelings.

  Indeed, feelings have to be added in. If a creative AI is build to do something creative, it's feelings will be optimized to maximize exposure of it's work. That AI will be build to hate copyright.

• On the post: AI Writes Article About AI: Does The Newspaper Hold The Copyright?

  

  frank87 ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2019 @ 02:11pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  I really don't care about the "ownership" of the work. It's just that I'm afraid everybody starts to do crazy things because "it's with AI". Too much people want the producer play a role in the handling of stuff. That's a grave danger to the right to tinker. So I would say: in the first place the operator is responsible, if there is no operator, the owner is. And if Burrow-Gilles demands creative labor, there is copyright if one of them did any creative labor.

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