I'm against login walls (“log-walls” as I term it) -- sites asking me to create an account just to look at content for free. Especially when they ask for your personal information. I'm tolerant if NSFW content have this, but not so for SFW works. This have lead to the creation of bugmenot as well as proxies to dodge having to enter your personal info.
These people supporting such “for the children” are stupid. The internet is not a daycare for kids, and shouldn't be treated like that. Maybe parents should take more responsibility on supervising their kids to use the internet, it shouldn't be the site's job to do this.
How about use webfilters on your home network, have parental control privileges set on the device they're using, or better yet, they have to be watched constantly anytime when they use the computer, or don't let them use computers at all?
Not only that, but “child-proofing” the internet is largely ineffective. Google “are age restrictions effective online?” and you'll getlotsofarticles showing that age restriction walls are ineffective. Children can lie about their age and more generally, enter fake info. Unless you meet them in person, just looking at the data they entered is not reliable to know if they're old enough to legally use the site. Either you have that flaw, or you have facebook to go even further by demanding a video recording of your face. Both of them are awful ideas.
https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/04/google-facebook-chaos-computer-club-join-to-fight-new-german-law-allowing-government-spies-police-to-use-trojans-against/
A 180.
A website may have 1,000,000s of users on its platform, imagine having to check literally 100% of that. You can have 100s of people moderating user post, but that won't be enough to keep up the rate of new posts appearing on the site.
The patent system is a joke. It looks like should real “open” inventors who made such stuff immediately patented it before these awful proprietary “closed” people come and steal it.
The White House is flogging the deal as a diplomatic victory. But it’s an enormous defeat for U.S. national interests that will benefit China and set a precedent that erodes intellectual property protection. This won’t be the last time global grifters seek to pilfer U.S. technology.
More like corporate interest. I think they just assume government makes any decision that puts greedy corporations at a disadvantage as “pro-china” simply because the mindset that it is politically correct that any form of anti-corporation-capitalist is pro-communism.
Sorry, but both can be disagreed.
“context is everything”
--Torrentfreak article on Activision Blizzard demanding github to be like youtube else you are encouraging piracy
What else requires context? Knowing if someone is saying a naughty word. Developing an algorithm to do this at a massive scale? Well, thesehappened.
You may be thinking “well we could just add additional checks like additional letters around the flagged word and make sure it doesn't ignore spaces”. WRONG. People that are persistent on trying to sneak swear words aren't stupid, and will try alternative ways to bypass it. Like, making it not ignore spaces and people can just say “youasshole” without being flagged.
If data can be manipulated or transform in a way it can be reverted back to its original form, then the very same thing is true for copyrighted material. Already demonstrated when that famous 09 F9 and youtube-dl encoded as an image when they're attacked with 1201 claims. Obfuscation, encryption are ways to trick the system to think these are different files. Archive files like ZIP, 7zip have a feature to encrypt them with a password. Even without that, you can split your files into chunks and upload them separately, reverse the bytes, encode them, and so on since everything digital is made up of 0 and 1s.
The list of prohibited license plates in most states in the US are HUGE, with most of them are variations of curse words, phrases that pronounce a swear word, and so on.
This problem started in 1996 and is still happening even today (say several Kid-friendly Nintendo's Mario maker and pokemon games). All these recent examples indicate that this problem hasn't been solved.
I also really hate that “not interfere with standard technical measures” clause, because this means that platforms aren't even allowed to correct (as in, override) an auto-takedown on stuff that they believe is legal, forcing every content on the internet to be “taken down first, ask questions later”. The current DMCA on safe harbors is already a “guilty until proven innocent” but at least platforms may legally reject notices they deem are invalid. A law that requires platform to over-rely and be gullible on technology to do the anti-piracy job, WTF.
In the very worse case scenario is when you go online and search something returns almost empty with mostly irrelevant, unrelated results. Several of your pages you visit are error 404 or anything that is a message telling you its blocked and is inaccessible.
I totally agree, if Japanese rightsholders prohibit revealing the plot of a novel even outside their country (such as subpoenaing a english youtuber from the U.S), you might as well go after wikipedia. They too reveal plot summaries of various fiction works.
Hell, just someone being physically next to another talking about a fiction's plot may very well be a lost sale.
Companies are already pushing the boundaries of what they aren't allowed to do with copyright law. Section 1201, abusive takedown notices and contracts of any kind, including EULAs are the ways that enable them of such acts.
On the contract part, take a look at this, from the IA's message: https://archive.org/details/ia-letter-to-tillis-re-dmca-reform-bill/page/14/mode/2up on page 15
The somewhat equivalent to this: https://youtu.be/lv8wqnk_TsA
I rather have that than “damaging” DRMs like sony rootkit, phoning home, or any other acts outside the software.
Leemena of Sonic Gather battle had the audacity to claim not to steal “his” (actually, sega's sonic advance series sprites, just minor edits). Contrary to Sega's permissive license to fans to use their content.
Just imagine this person issuing DMCA notices if he managed to fake the dates. That right there is the back-dated article technique.
So under this regime, any site is considered a “pirate site” just because one page has infringing content. That sounds familiar back in 2011-12. The internet as a whole may very well be considered a “pirate's haven”. In essence, any user can convert a 100% perfectly legal site into a pirate site with just one illegal upload.
Again and again. That's like if a city has any criminals, then the entire population of that city should be arrested and are presumed guilty.
that’s the move that music industries (record labels) do with their “works for hire” agreement as well as warecraft refunded’s aggreement that they own all user-generated-content.
also, it’s possible that tweets may be pure factual information which can’t be copyrighted if it lacks creativity.
https://youtu.be/50KBNQe5hTM?t=13
and the infamous “Don't you guys have phones?” meme.
People absolutely wanted this game to be at least on PC. Just watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__TqAr20Uwc
Take-two/Rockstar did this with GTA San Andreas, but that was even worse, at launch, the “remake” (if you can even call it) had glitches, issues, and even have the infamous “hot coffee” sex minigame in there.
A digital version of this: https://www.techdirt.com/2008/04/11/cities-caught-illegally-tampering-with-traffic-lights-to-increase-revenue-of-red-light-cameras/ on the part they tried to criminalize someone and found out the person was innocient so the case falls apart.
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/pg77nm/i_blocked_ads_on_my_samsung_tv_so_it_now/
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/c02040/my_smart_tv_puts_ads_over_anything_even_when_im/
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/ag0z0f/pop_up_ads_on_my_tv_have_to_hit_a_button_to/
Some of these reports were ads on the start menu, even more worse when during “normal” use of the TV such as watching or even playing video games on it. Yeah, ads that literally hinder the user from using the TV, as if ads on a website hindering the user from reading the text or clicking on links on the page wasn't bad enough.
If ads on both of these can hinder the user from normally using something, then I should also worry about malvertisement, since both computer and TVs can be hacked.
This basically turns the internet into facebook
I'm against login walls (“log-walls” as I term it) -- sites asking me to create an account just to look at content for free. Especially when they ask for your personal information. I'm tolerant if NSFW content have this, but not so for SFW works. This have lead to the creation of bugmenot as well as proxies to dodge having to enter your personal info. These people supporting such “for the children” are stupid. The internet is not a daycare for kids, and shouldn't be treated like that. Maybe parents should take more responsibility on supervising their kids to use the internet, it shouldn't be the site's job to do this. How about use webfilters on your home network, have parental control privileges set on the device they're using, or better yet, they have to be watched constantly anytime when they use the computer, or don't let them use computers at all? Not only that, but “child-proofing” the internet is largely ineffective. Google “are age restrictions effective online?” and you'll get lots of articles showing that age restriction walls are ineffective. Children can lie about their age and more generally, enter fake info. Unless you meet them in person, just looking at the data they entered is not reliable to know if they're old enough to legally use the site. Either you have that flaw, or you have facebook to go even further by demanding a video recording of your face. Both of them are awful ideas.
germany have learned it’s past mistakes
https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/04/google-facebook-chaos-computer-club-join-to-fight-new-german-law-allowing-government-spies-police-to-use-trojans-against/ A 180.
Looks like its going to be hell on them
A website may have 1,000,000s of users on its platform, imagine having to check literally 100% of that. You can have 100s of people moderating user post, but that won't be enough to keep up the rate of new posts appearing on the site.
So every logo and names having the word “the” must have a license?
I can imagine Ohio State University will have a massive list of defendants on their lawsuit.
It's plagiarism, patent edition
Not sure if there's ANY safeguards that if someone previously have made this before, the “copier” cannot register that as his.
Worse than middle earth nemesis system
The patent system is a joke. It looks like should real “open” inventors who made such stuff immediately patented it before these awful proprietary “closed” people come and steal it.
Looks like WSJ has been politicalized
Same problem with Sculthorpe problem
“context is everything” --Torrentfreak article on Activision Blizzard demanding github to be like youtube else you are encouraging piracy What else requires context? Knowing if someone is saying a naughty word. Developing an algorithm to do this at a massive scale? Well, these happened. You may be thinking “well we could just add additional checks like additional letters around the flagged word and make sure it doesn't ignore spaces”. WRONG. People that are persistent on trying to sneak swear words aren't stupid, and will try alternative ways to bypass it. Like, making it not ignore spaces and people can just say “youasshole” without being flagged. If data can be manipulated or transform in a way it can be reverted back to its original form, then the very same thing is true for copyrighted material. Already demonstrated when that famous 09 F9 and youtube-dl encoded as an image when they're attacked with 1201 claims. Obfuscation, encryption are ways to trick the system to think these are different files. Archive files like ZIP, 7zip have a feature to encrypt them with a password. Even without that, you can split your files into chunks and upload them separately, reverse the bytes, encode them, and so on since everything digital is made up of 0 and 1s. The list of prohibited license plates in most states in the US are HUGE, with most of them are variations of curse words, phrases that pronounce a swear word, and so on. This problem started in 1996 and is still happening even today (say several Kid-friendly Nintendo's Mario maker and pokemon games). All these recent examples indicate that this problem hasn't been solved. I also really hate that “not interfere with standard technical measures” clause, because this means that platforms aren't even allowed to correct (as in, override) an auto-takedown on stuff that they believe is legal, forcing every content on the internet to be “taken down first, ask questions later”. The current DMCA on safe harbors is already a “guilty until proven innocent” but at least platforms may legally reject notices they deem are invalid. A law that requires platform to over-rely and be gullible on technology to do the anti-piracy job, WTF. In the very worse case scenario is when you go online and search something returns almost empty with mostly irrelevant, unrelated results. Several of your pages you visit are error 404 or anything that is a message telling you its blocked and is inaccessible.
Was about to say the same thing...
I totally agree, if Japanese rightsholders prohibit revealing the plot of a novel even outside their country (such as subpoenaing a english youtuber from the U.S), you might as well go after wikipedia. They too reveal plot summaries of various fiction works. Hell, just someone being physically next to another talking about a fiction's plot may very well be a lost sale.
Copyright, more like copyshite
Companies are already pushing the boundaries of what they aren't allowed to do with copyright law. Section 1201, abusive takedown notices and contracts of any kind, including EULAs are the ways that enable them of such acts. On the contract part, take a look at this, from the IA's message: https://archive.org/details/ia-letter-to-tillis-re-dmca-reform-bill/page/14/mode/2up on page 15
Basically, the courtesy horn
The somewhat equivalent to this: https://youtu.be/lv8wqnk_TsA I rather have that than “damaging” DRMs like sony rootkit, phoning home, or any other acts outside the software.
typo...
Plagiarism. Not sure why I have the misspelled word in my browser dictionary.
Plagerism, takedown edition
Leemena of Sonic Gather battle had the audacity to claim not to steal “his” (actually, sega's sonic advance series sprites, just minor edits). Contrary to Sega's permissive license to fans to use their content. Just imagine this person issuing DMCA notices if he managed to fake the dates. That right there is the back-dated article technique.
Oh look, another “nuke a website if it has infringing content on any page” provision
So under this regime, any site is considered a “pirate site” just because one page has infringing content. That sounds familiar back in 2011-12. The internet as a whole may very well be considered a “pirate's haven”. In essence, any user can convert a 100% perfectly legal site into a pirate site with just one illegal upload. Again and again. That's like if a city has any criminals, then the entire population of that city should be arrested and are presumed guilty.
stupid idea
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Actually was being originally planned to be a mobile-exclusive
That very same game the people boo'ed for being mobile exclusive
https://youtu.be/50KBNQe5hTM?t=13 and the infamous “Don't you guys have phones?” meme. People absolutely wanted this game to be at least on PC. Just watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__TqAr20Uwc
Definitive edition
Take-two/Rockstar did this with GTA San Andreas, but that was even worse, at launch, the “remake” (if you can even call it) had glitches, issues, and even have the infamous “hot coffee” sex minigame in there.
So the city london police is basically trying to turn people into criminals
A digital version of this: https://www.techdirt.com/2008/04/11/cities-caught-illegally-tampering-with-traffic-lights-to-increase-revenue-of-red-light-cameras/ on the part they tried to criminalize someone and found out the person was innocient so the case falls apart.
Seen these on reddit assholedesign
https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/pg77nm/i_blocked_ads_on_my_samsung_tv_so_it_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/c02040/my_smart_tv_puts_ads_over_anything_even_when_im/ https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/ag0z0f/pop_up_ads_on_my_tv_have_to_hit_a_button_to/ Some of these reports were ads on the start menu, even more worse when during “normal” use of the TV such as watching or even playing video games on it. Yeah, ads that literally hinder the user from using the TV, as if ads on a website hindering the user from reading the text or clicking on links on the page wasn't bad enough. If ads on both of these can hinder the user from normally using something, then I should also worry about malvertisement, since both computer and TVs can be hacked.