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  • On the post: Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

    GHB ( profile ), 07 Jun, 2024 @ 06:09pm

    Anti- ̶p̶i̶r̶a̶c̶y̶ privacy

    Now imagine this imbued with “Investigatory powers act”. One day, if too many punctures on privacy protections, the opposite thing happens on a CallMeMoneyBags-like case.

  • On the post: Read All About How Paywalls Are Bad For Democracy, Right Behind This Paywall

    GHB ( profile ), 23 May, 2024 @ 03:51pm

    Saw this on reddit

    https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/e2x7dx/no_thanks_i_prefer_fake_news_just_fuck_off/ How about just lock 100% of the site behind a paywall then?

  • On the post: ESA Once Again Comes Out Against Video Game Preservation Efforts

    GHB ( profile ), 01 May, 2024 @ 02:52am

    ESA = Eat Shit Association

    • “Accidentally” doxed 2000 people at the E3 in 2019. It was reported some time in the past and they just shrug it off when reported.
    • Supports awful monetization schemes. Loot boxes, and opposes any regulation on such systems.
    More than enough resources to not trust them.

  • On the post: I Am Rupert Murdoch's Total Lack Of Shame: Now Demanding Intermediary Liability Protections For News Corp.

    GHB ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2024 @ 05:42pm

    Quite the karma that newscorp has with Australia when attacking 230

    This company fails to understand why it existed. They do not know that it serves as a protection to any online platform (including big media sites like newscorp itself and its post on other sites) against threats just because a random user put stuff as a reply to your post.

  • On the post: Kansas Reflector Mostly Admits That Meta’s Blocking Of Their Site Wasn’t Deliberate

    GHB ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2024 @ 07:02pm

    Youtube have the same problem with its own comments system

    When you comment on youtube, you link to another page, be it another youtube video, or to an external site, and found out your comment was deleted, via:

    • Revisit the youtube video page to find your comment somehow missing.
    • You edit your comment, and it returns an error upon submitting the changes.
    When watching several recent videos, that have a pinned comment by the video poster, the replies to that comment are all dots ("."), not sure if somehow youtube allowed the posts to be there, and then deletes it afterwards, and then restore it. Yeah, reason for youtube to dial up the what's banned was because of those annoying “text me on telegram” scam appearing when you comment on a video by a very popular youtuber. Sometimes they use obfuscation techniques such as russian symbols that look like Latin letters, as well as excessive use of emojis. The opposite is happening on bugmenot, let's assume the site didn't use automated filters or is using it but not have it “super sensitive”. Bugmenot is a website to bypass annoying login walls to access free content from various websites. Login entries are FILLED with “premium account” promotions linking to sketchy link shorteners sites. I doubt these login data will work (not necessarily because the login wall site, it's just a bogus entry of made-up text with no real function other than to distribute dangerous links).

  • On the post: Roku Eyes Patent That Would Inject Ads Into… Everything

    GHB ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2024 @ 05:22pm

    I've seen this on Louis Rossmann

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narqU0RruJY There is absolutely no legitimate reason for any ad-related software/stuff should check what is on the TV screen. Do you want such a system to check your screen while you are logging in via a password? (Yes, I know most login GUIs would display dots instead of a string entered by a user, but it is hinting some parts of information about your password, the character length) This is just as bad as keyloggers.

  • On the post: Copyright Nonsense Is Back? Spain’s On Again, Off Again Telegram Block

    GHB ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2024 @ 03:42pm

    Spain’s interpretation of sony betamax

    Quite surprising they didn’t learn from U.S case reguarding Universal V Sony

  • On the post: Italy’s Piracy Shield Blocks Innocent Web Sites And Makes It Hard For Them To Appeal

    GHB ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2024 @ 04:08pm

    Block first, ask questions later

    Sir, your laser cannon is firing a beam so wide that it not only targeted the space pirates, you also have struck down several planets, suns, and other space objects we not intend to shoot.
    13 years. That is how many years ago when the biggest online protest ever against an out-of-control site blocking regime in the U.S. Sport companies want insta-blocking, no questions asked, to protect their live content. Such a system comes at a cost of any platform regardless if it is a piracy haven or not. The sport industry really needs to change their business model. Their old business model on relying on faster copyright enforcement is poisonous to the digital world.

  • On the post: EFF Defends Anti-War Group Against SXSW’s Bullshit IP Claims

    GHB ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2024 @ 09:36am

    The trademark claim is reminiscent to Acerthorn and udemy

    Here we go again. A trademark claim for the sole purpose of silencing people referring to them despite the use of the mark not intended to “confuse” people. https://torrentfreak.com/udemy-uses-dmca-to-delete-video-showing-how-to-access-courses-free-legally-201207/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhHrmg5DTfY

  • On the post: Italy’s ‘Piracy Shield’ Creating Real Problems As VPNs Start Turning Away Italian Users

    GHB ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2024 @ 08:03pm

    Unchecked and out of control.

    Just a few days ago, TF also reported that they blocked a single IP address used by hundreds of sites under Cloudflare. Many of which aren't even related to any live sports. This is the very consequence of what happens if you make it too easy and to lower the bar so low to block a website. It was forewarned with SOPA/PIPA in the U.S in 2011-12.

  • On the post: Bluesky Begins To Make Its Decentralized Vision Real

    GHB ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2024 @ 07:06pm

    Still in its infancy

    Most of the twitter users I've seen have not created a bluesky account or have but using a different handle and sometimes don't post to twitter users that they have, so I have to manually search them, and pray that they're not account impersonators. Currently it doesn't support videos, GIFs (see this github) and any images that are besides jpeg (if you try to upload a png or any non-jpeg, it is converted into a jpeg). Bluesky have a long way to go to be the twitter replacement. Like what TodePond said on github (linked previously), it isn't really suitable for showing off your works yet.

  • On the post: Ubisoft Says It Out Loud: We Want People To Get Used To Not Owning What They’ve Bought

    GHB ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2024 @ 07:05pm

    Great. Players now will OWE nothing and be happy.

    If Ubisoft will still plan to have microtransactions in all their future releases, then that is already more than enough reasons not to even pay any money to Ubisoft from this point onwards. Oh and CEO of Larian (Baulder's gate 3) hates this as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTB7hgERw8M https://twitter.com/LarAtLarian/status/1747556874562457799

  • On the post: YouTube Still Blocking Access To Steamboat Willie On Behalf Of Disney In Some Countries

    GHB ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2024 @ 05:20pm

    That's what happens if copyright holders go autopilot on auto-takedowns

    There is one thing in life, that is AI cannot replace humans, AI is a tool, not a replacement.

  • On the post: Polish Indie Repair Shops Had To Hire Hackers To Tackle Pointless, Train-Crippling DRM

    GHB ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2023 @ 06:15am

    Espically the fact it locks up the device, and demands a payment to unlock.

    Digital rights malware

  • On the post: Polish Indie Repair Shops Had To Hire Hackers To Tackle Pointless, Train-Crippling DRM

    GHB ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2023 @ 06:10am

    Ransomware, but by a company

    A software that locks up an entire device smells like a ransomware.

  • On the post: Polish Indie Repair Shops Had To Hire Hackers To Tackle Pointless, Train-Crippling DRM

    GHB ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2023 @ 06:07am

    NEWAG, more like NE-WANG

    https://youtu.be/w8NqBXT6Kos?si=jcX3v4voe8oNJKM_

  • On the post: Will Browsers Be Required By Law To Stop You From Visiting Infringing Sites?

    GHB ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2023 @ 02:48pm

    Saw this on torrentfreak

    https://torrentfreak.com/french-govt-wants-to-inject-domain-blocking-lists-directly-into-web-browsers-230630/

  • On the post: 9th Circuit Rejects Claims Of Copyright Infringement Against Instagram’s Embed Code

    GHB ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2023 @ 07:37pm

    Thank god that (hot)linking to a content posted by the copyright owner reguardless of permission is ruled as legal

    Otherwise something as simple as a <href="<URL>"> or <img src="<URL>"> in the post of the hotlinker's page containing just the URL would be treated the same way as if that image is actually stored on the hotlinker's site server and therefore illegal. Links are just pointing where the content resides, to your work, you posted publicly. Just because you SEE copyrighted content appearing on 3rd party site does not mean it is stored on there, especially when the URLs they linked shows it goes to the 1st party site where the copyright holder authorized to be on. Even if the URL is different, that still doesn't indicate the image or whatever copyrightable content is stored on there. Because if that was illegal, then proxy front-end sites like Nitter and VPNs should also be illegal for simply creating an alternative URL.

  • On the post: Main Chinese Social Media Platforms Now Require Top Influencers To Display Their Real Names Online

    GHB ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2023 @ 05:46pm

    you might as well require SSN (or any equivalent) to be public as well.

    Any form of identity verification mandate is already bad enough (any site can get hacked and is even worse if it stores more of your highly sensitive information). And now they require Top Influencers to expose their real names publicly. Now you DON'T need to hack to obtain any Top Influencer's real names.

  • On the post: Microsoft Suddenly Decides To Prevent Third Party Accessories From Working On Xbox

    GHB ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 08:07pm

    Thank god for that then

    Microsoft, call THAT cheating. Lockdown the individual parts of the controller? Sure people can just clamp their controller to some object and have another object doing the button press/analog stick movement for you (akin to that Star Wars: Battlefront 2 rubber band on the analog sticks, which some call that cheating)

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