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  terop ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 08:25am

  Tools that have substantial non-infringing uses are legal.

  Here's theory how to decide this issue: 1) youtube-dl's uses are not non-infringing because all use cases involve circumvention of rolling cipher and enabling usage of video files outside of youtube's control. The operation that removes youtube from control is fundamentally infringing. 2) even if you could somehow get past (1), you still cannot decide the overall activity to be legal. It requires analysis of the overall activity, not just rely on supreme court quotes disconnected from their context.

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  terop ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 07:04am

  take your Meshpage advertisement off of YouTube, then we’ll talk.

  Lol. This is exactly why I need to take the position that end users lose their rights to creative commons flexibility when they use youtube as a middleman. When my position is that youtube is actually middleman that filters out flexibility from content owner's chosen licenses like creative commons, I don't need to take my ad away from youtube. The removal requirement came from your idea that youtube is not a party in the licensing of the content videos. Also what mixes the analysis a little, is that when I post my adverticements to youtube, I'm the content owner, and I'm not (in that analysis) the user of youtube which needs license before watching the content. Copyright owner of course can display his own content.

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  terop ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2023 @ 06:57am

  You’d be wrong there.

  Nope, that's in the original VHS vs BETAMAX decision. The technology at the time was analog and was explicitly designed lose quality of the material once copies are being made. And courts concluded that that's good enough copy protection and the company has thought about rights of the content owners and that made the VHS technology legal. Current technology is digital and it doesn't suffer from similar over-time degration of the material. But the tech vendors are thus unable to use VHS vs BETAMAX decision to declare their technology legal, unless they accurately replicate the technology features, including the analog's quality decrease.

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  terop ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 11:28pm

  YouTube is not passing on any any license

  Then users of youtube has no rights to display those videos. => we need to all stop using youtube

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  terop ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 11:19pm

  What is YouTube-DL enabling that is less legal

  its the unlimited copying of the material without sending web request to youtube. VCR recorders are only legal because the quality sucks so much that multiple copies of the material makes it unwatchable.

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  terop ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 04:38pm

  Actually you do have that right for some bideos, as it depends on the creator, and not YouTube to allow downloads.

  This isn'y true. Youtube cannot pass along rights to users that youtube itself doesn't have. Since they never specify licenses for each video separately, they cannot customize the rights that youtube obtains based on original author's license. Even if original author used creative commons license to distribute the video, youtube did not obtain full CC license rights from the author, and thus users of youtube are not able to excersize their rights on the downloading files from youtube. The different platforms work as license filters and are removing users rights the more the authors use someone elses platforms to distribute their products.

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  terop ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2023 @ 03:34pm

  on the other hand, RIAA is right about youtube-dl. We never had the right to download videos from youtube as a video files. When youtube-dl is opening the floodgates, they're doing something illegal. RIAA's contracts with youtube about usage of RIAA's catalog in google's youtube service is not surviving 3rd party entities doing illegal operations, so they have no other choice than sue the authors. Eventually every technology, product and content item will survive only if the process how it was created follows the established laws. Thus tools like youtube-dl are dangerous to any author willing to produce content that lasts long time. Popular works have significantly stricter copyright following requirements than ordinary works of art. The strictness of copyright comes as a suprise to many people who suddenly finds the technology or product popular, and its necessary that authors prepare for the most onerous reading of the copyright law.

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  terop ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2023 @ 05:44am

  How proper technologies (like meshpage) do these things: 1) instead of letting users upload content from their computer local directories, require URL of the content instead. This ensures that end user did copyright check right before pushing content to your technology. Web publishing is well known location where copyright check is required, and thus end users who need to upload content to web server (to receive the needed url), will need to do copyright check of the content. 2) dig through the content passed in, and find copyright notices and authorship information. Make sure end result passes that information forward. These are extra steps for the user, but designed to ensure that users know their responsibilities while handling content items created by someone else. When we can rely that end users did copyright check for all the content uploaded, we can easier handle content and republish it on different channel.

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

  

  terop ( profile ), 09 Aug, 2023 @ 04:56am

  Because word on windows remains the best for both reflowing PDF work and HTML WYSIWYG work.

  so, how does your ms word handle embedding gltf animations to the document? For example, this tool https://meshpage.org/gltf_to_zip.php allows you to convert the files to html5, but does your ms word workflow allow you to insert those allimportant embed tags to the document?

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  terop ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 03:10am

  Why should anyone destroy their own hardware to prove something doesn’t work, when the creator himself admits that current builds aren’t intended to run on most machines?

  Our position on this subject is that if hardware gets destroyed by running some software on it, the hardware was designed wrong. There's nothing wrong with software trying to take advantage of all the hardware features available, but if the said hw gets destroyed in the process, it's clearly hardware design problem and you should bring your amiga to the hw doctor. They will open the hw, not knowing what is the problem. When you ask for your computer back (after 2 days), the doctor will tell that it's not possible since half of the parts are not there any longer. Asking for refund and replacement computer will result in awful computer without 1Mb chip ram.

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  terop ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 03:00am

  It’s likely the main reason why no one has harassed you is because you keep claiming you only made $58 in 10 years.

  Yes, they have evaluated the copyright status of meshpage and decided that it does not cause copyright damage to other products. Thus when damage does not exist, and $58 is the maximum they're going to receive from any lawsuit, they had no other choice than not sue meshpage for copyrights. When RIAA/MPAA and all other copyright owners on the planet have decided not to sue, their collective decision is so powerful as to prove that no illegal activity is happening. If it had happened, someone would call the bluff and meshpage would be sued out of existence. But when the world as a whole decides not to sue, our confidence to the legal practices being used to protect other copyright owners gets strong validation.

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  terop ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 02:46am

  You get money when people use your product.

  This doesn't seem to be true in today's world. People just opt to use the open source version where no money is exchanged. I have 541 downloads of my builder tool in itch.io, but only $6.00 as transactions where money is exchanged. So it does not seem to be true that you get money when people use your product.

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  terop ( profile ), 08 Aug, 2023 @ 02:42am

  And what coding parties have you attended, just to give your claim of how things work in the real world the benefit of the doubt?

  Assembly 1994 had nice party where I sold my Mega Motion amiga game to Black Legend.

  Who’s lining up to give you exclusive deals?

  Some guy called Richard Holmes.

  Who’s working with you to build Meshpage-produced games instead of Unity, Blender or Unreal?

  This was long time before meshpage existed.

  Where’s all the Meshpage products?

  https://meshpage.org/view.php https://meshpage.org/gltf_to_zip-php https://meshpage.org

  It’s almost as if you’ve done absolutely nothing to promote your own software

  But I still mention its existence every time I talk in techdirt? You don't think techdirt is the breeding ground for wannabe software publishers?

  accuse everyone of pirates and threaten legal action unless they start using your software,

  If the world is going to that direction, more accusations are needed to make it whole again.

• On the post: French News Agency Sues ex-Twitter For Not Paying Snippet Tax

  

  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 07:41am

  the problem with snippet tax is that it only covers small section of copyrighted works. It should be expanded to all copyrighted works. What i'm thinking is developers of some original content that doesnt look like the standardized viral newsstories that news organisations are outputting. The original content vendors equally deserve the money than the news organisations that are now getting all the focus and money. Significant amount of copyrighted works on the planet are created without compensation, and there should be better mechanisms of how to explore compensation options for the content.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 06:20am

  and how artists can actually make money on the internet

  I would expect artists make money the same way as any other copyright owner. They go to music/film/demo/e-sports/game party and wait for publisher to find out about your awesome product worthy of publisher's time. Then you sign exclusive contract and reject other publishing channels and start waiting for your money...

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 05:47am

  If © was so essential to making money, why are people paying me for stuff that I upload to the internet archive?

  must be some legal requirement that we do not know about. itch.io did the same when i first uploaded builder tool to the itch.io. But the money dried up even though i kept updating the software regularly and users always had the bleeding edge version available. but your idea that copyright isn't the source of the money is slightly mistaken. Its because of copyright that you receive the money.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 05:38am

  Mr Abraham actually earns money from his music.

  here your argument goes well beyond normal internet wisdom. Are you actually claiming that RIAA is paying real money to the authors? Or which channel is the money coming from? If RIAA is the source of this awesome money flow. you have no longer bits to complain about RIAA sueing pirates.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 05:34am

  After all, the man couldn’t detach his self-importance enough to make functioning software.

  Aaah, the software is not functioning -argument. too bad techdirt's experts have yet to find one error from the material, even though i have offered several urls for your pleasure: https://meshpage.org https://meshpage.org/view.php https://meshpage.org/gltf_to_zip.php you shouldn't complain about functionality that you're not interested enough to try it out.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 04:50am

  I already have the gear! They’re the old video game systems! And modern-day computers!

  Too bad your customer base will recognize immediately if you try to bring your 8 bit audio equipment to a modern party. The 1980's sounds are terrifying more than allowing customers to hand over their hard earned cash to the musician. Even 16 bit times the amiga sound hardware is no match to the power of this death star. You need actual skills to get past the ticket goon with your outdated audio hardware.

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  terop ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2023 @ 04:24am

  We are talking about an industry that is known to sue if they can make it look like they possibly have a case, and drive small legal operations into bankruptcy

  Whatever the industry is, it cannot overtake the legal mechanism and rewrite laws to their pleasing. The rules that govern copyrights are well established and they will have significant problems declaring meshpage as a pirate site. This is because we're attached to the centre of legal area and not try to stretch the legal statues. This means they need to travel very far from current meshpage implementation before they can find anything to complain about. And courts are very sensitive to these attempts to move technology implementations from its original legal position towards the illegal borders. Thus there is nothing to worry about and I can confidently offer my services to the wider internet ecosystem.

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