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• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Abuse Of The DMCA To Try To Delete Online News Is Rampant

  

  GHB ( profile ), 24 May, 2022 @ 03:46pm

  typo...

  Plagiarism. Not sure why I have the misspelled word in my browser dictionary.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: Abuse Of The DMCA To Try To Delete Online News Is Rampant

  

  GHB ( profile ), 24 May, 2022 @ 03:45pm

  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.

• On the post: Because Of Course: Rightsholders Pushing To Turn Digital Services Act Into Another Anti-Piracy Tool

  

  GHB ( profile ), 13 May, 2022 @ 03:52pm

  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.

• On the post: Elon Musk’s Twitter Business Model Idea: Ignore Free Speech Rights And Try To The Charge Media To Quote Tweets

  

  GHB ( profile ), 03 May, 2022 @ 08:33pm

  stupid idea

  assign their copyrights to Twitter

  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.

• On the post: Blizzard’s Plan To Combat Emulation Of New ‘Diablo’ Title: Just Release It On PC

  

  GHB ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2022 @ 01:57am

  ...

  Actually was being originally planned to be a mobile-exclusive

• On the post: Blizzard’s Plan To Combat Emulation Of New ‘Diablo’ Title: Just Release It On PC

  

  GHB ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2022 @ 01:56am

  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

• On the post: Sega Does A Nintendo: Company Pulls Older Sonic Games Ahead Of Anthology Release

  

  GHB ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2022 @ 07:40pm

  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.

• On the post: Disney Gets Fans Who Made Their Own ‘Club Penguin’ Online Game Arrested Over Copyright

  

  GHB ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2022 @ 10:18am

  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.

• On the post: It’s Still Stupidly, Ridiculously Difficult To Buy A ‘Dumb’ TV

  

  GHB ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2022 @ 09:16pm

  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.

• On the post: Why The Snippet Tax In The EU Copyright Directive Is Pointless And Doomed To Fail

  

  GHB ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2022 @ 07:51pm

  If the publishers had really been concerned about Google’s use of snippets, they could easily have blocked the search engine’s Web crawler by using the robots.txt file, which is designed precisely for this kind of situation.

  You too, gettyimages (the company that sued google into removing its view image button because it enabled users to steal images), you could've use that to put paid images behind that robots exclusion standard. Just a few lines of code in a text file at the root directory of the URL is all it takes, instead of going through a complex, expensive, and time consuming lawsuit.

• On the post: Owners Of ‘Gran Turismo 7’ Locked Out Of Single Player Game When Online DRM Servers Go Down

  

  GHB ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2022 @ 06:07am

  the DRM is to protect its microtransaction.

  Evident that even your save file is on their servers and admitting that it’s for preventing cheating

• On the post: Tesla Fires Employee For Posting Critical Footage To YouTube

  

  GHB ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2022 @ 06:38pm

  non-dispargement agreement

  Something serious like this should not be sealed.

• On the post: Routinely Terrible Anti-Piracy Company Seeks Court Order Preventing TorrentFreak From Covering Its Terribleness

  

  GHB ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2022 @ 02:02pm

  That is something dictators would do.

  When someone does something bad, the authorities try to hide that. Looks like MarkMonitor is joining proctorio, Immanent Uprising (or Digital Homocide), and Acerthorn then.

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: YouTuber Pulls Down GoFundMe Video To Help Victim Of Viral YouTube Jumping Tesla Stunt

  

  GHB ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2022 @ 02:03pm

  This kinda reminds me of people getting into physical fight and use DMCA to censor reports

  I couldn't remember the URL of an old post, but is reminiscent as a use to hide what happened. Someone films someone else who got into a fight and one of the people involved tried to DMCA it.

• On the post: Torguard Blocks All U.S. BitTorrent Traffic After Entertainment Industry Lawsuit

  

  GHB ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2022 @ 02:03pm

  Anti-piracy, more like anti-privacy

  Given that studios have been demanding that VPN providers log and store user traffic behavior, Torguard’s clearly worried the decision will cause an exodus of customers who specifically use a VPN to avoid being tracked for reasons that often go beyond copyright infringement.

  Guess what, anything that enables and supports anonymity can be used for infringement. Already the dark web introduced by the TOR network has these, so those 2-dozen studios may very well go after that and encryption. This is another example of attacking something or someone just because their technology or feature enables (but not intend) for people to do illegal acts, along with GettyImages vs the “view image” button (why can't they use robots.txt?)

• On the post: Academics, Civil Society, Internet Companies All Explain Just How Ridiculously Dangerous SHOP SAFE Is

  

  GHB ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2022 @ 06:00pm

  First herd on EFF

  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/shop-safe-will-stomp-out-online-sales-used-and-homemade-goods This is amazon's version of facebook wanted a change on section 230.

• On the post: Education Spyware Purveyor Uses Lawsuit As Excuse To Sling Subpoena At One Of Its Most Vocal Critics

  

  GHB ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2022 @ 03:46pm

  This isn’t the first copyright subpoena against a fair user.

  CallMeMoneyBags on twitter is at risk of a lawsuit and he/she didn’t file a counter notification: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/copyright-not-shortcut-around-constitutions-anonymous-speech-protections-eff-tells Subpoenas as a form of DMCA weapon are increasingly becoming common. Now imagine that happens on youtube at scale.

• On the post: Nintendo Hates You: More DMCA Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Of Game Music Despite No Legit Alternative

  

  GHB ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2022 @ 11:10am

  Re: Uhh...

  whoops, used the wrong formatting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiIvaGunner

• On the post: Nintendo Hates You: More DMCA Takedowns Of YouTube Videos Of Game Music Despite No Legit Alternative

  

  GHB ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2022 @ 11:09am

  Uhh...

  Are you sure these are direct re-uploads? Some videos I watched and looked it up on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiIvaGunner">wikipedia</a&gt; stated that these videos have clickbait titles and are actually a different song and a remix. I wonder if Nintendo got baited into thinking their songs were reuploaded than a remix, judging based on title, the game's title on the screen, and the first few seconds of the video.

• On the post: YouTube Dusts Off Granular National Video Blocking To Assist YouTuber Feuding With Toei Animation

  

  GHB ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2022 @ 02:50am

  Obviously herd about this on TMME’s video

  TheMysteriousMrEnter posted this video long ago:

  https://youtu.be/jiSXoEbILhw

  at 5:32-5:43 sums it all up. To post things online without breaking any laws in the world.

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