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  • Sep 18, 2019 @ 12:57pm

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    It may seem crazy, however SpaceX has been averaging around 20 launches a year for commercial customers already, and they have the capacity to to add plenty more internal launches for Starlink. Three Starlink launches a year would be easily doable. They could probably do 10-20 additional Starlink launches with existing Falcon hardware. However the real game changer is their new Starship rocket under development. When that comes online in a couple years, they'll be able to carry a lot more than just 60 satellites into orbit at a time. They have a bit of a chicken and egg problem right now because they need the revenue from the initial phase of Starlink to fund completion of Starship, but once Staship is operating, they'll be able to build out the rest of the network rapidly. When evaluating the future of Starlink, I think people underestimate how much of an advantage SpaceX will get by having their own fully reusable Saturn V class launcher.

  • Mar 08, 2018 @ 11:25am

    When I was in law school, I was quoted in an article on TorrentFreak talking about YouTube's copyright policies. Someone in the law school administration saw the article, and included a link to it in an email newsletter they sent out with media mentions of their students. When I tried to view the article while on the campus network, it was blocked by the school's content filters.

    I contacted the school's IT department and tried to explain the situation to them, and was stonewalled with the answer, "the site has torrent in its name, so it's a piracy site." Nothing could make these people see how absurd this was.

  • Jun 13, 2017 @ 12:36pm

    It's even worse...

    It's worth noting that it is effectively impossibly to challenge copyright claims by UMG on YouTube, since they have special contractual rights from YouTube to override DMCA counter-notices without having to file a lawsuit. Techdirt has reported on this in the past but it's been a few years.

    Basically UMG has ultimate veto power to take down any video on YouTube without repercussions. So unless their tweet catches UMGs attention, they're pretty much SOL.

  • Feb 16, 2016 @ 09:44am

    I believe that message is the one displayed for a global Content ID block, not a manual DMCA takedown.