And while I stand with what I said here a lot, why do we even need DMCA after?
Because there are some good bits in it. Title II isn't all bad -- the takedown system is a mess but the safe harbor idea protecting intermediaries from liability is good -- and Title III reversing Mai v Peak was good. Title IV has some good bits in it.
It's not all giveaways to the copyright industry. Just most of it.
Sinclair's efforts were so legally dubious, even Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai was forced to oppose the deal.
Was that really because they were so legally dubious, or was it because Sinclair's primary competitor, Rupert Murdoch, leaned on Trump to scuttle the merger?
Wouldn't be the first time. I can think of a couple examples of games that removed Denuvo following performance problems -- Sonic Mania and Mega Man 11, off the top of my head.
Typo in the headline: "For Violation Country's Privacy Laws" -- should either be "for violating country's privacy laws" or "for violation of country's privacy laws".
The issue isn't the keywords but the sorting of results for "relevance", which is the thing that makes Google so useful. You want the "best results" (which google uses an very complex algorithm that is not alphabetical) on page one. And google even searches for similar words to your search term, as well as spelling corrections and all sorts of other things that aren't part of the ridiculous "exemption".
All of these would seem to qualify as what the bill calls an "input-transparent algorithm", as none of the criteria you just listed involve the use of user-specific data.
You can still do a Google search even if you're not logged into a Google account, you know.
For example, a straightforward reading of this bill would mean that no site can automatically determine you're visiting with a mobile device and format the page accordingly.
I don't see how.
Layouts are handled client-side, through the browser, generally through CSS and sometimes through JavaScript.
In neither case is the layout handled through supplying data to the server; it's all handled on the frontend. I don't see any possible interpretation where this information is "provided by the user to the platform".
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PETA.
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I'm not sure I would have had the self-control not to open with "Hey fuck-face".
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Re: Better I Think, But Why Not Abolish It?
Because there are some good bits in it. Title II isn't all bad -- the takedown system is a mess but the safe harbor idea protecting intermediaries from liability is good -- and Title III reversing Mai v Peak was good. Title IV has some good bits in it.
It's not all giveaways to the copyright industry. Just most of it.
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And it only took twenty years after the Sklyarov arrest!
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(Also: calling a man a woman as an insult is kinda shitty. There are lots of things to criticize Graham for without bringing casual sexism into it.)
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Everybody already knows Graham is a spineless hypocrite.
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And the other 23 and a half hours.
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Denuvo is definitely the successor to SecuROM.
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...box?
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Tim reads the comments.
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Well that can't be. That would mean all this campaigning against "cancel culture" is just cynical bullshit that they don't really believe.
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Was that really because they were so legally dubious, or was it because Sinclair's primary competitor, Rupert Murdoch, leaned on Trump to scuttle the merger?
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Wouldn't be the first time. I can think of a couple examples of games that removed Denuvo following performance problems -- Sonic Mania and Mega Man 11, off the top of my head.
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Typo in the headline: "For Violation Country's Privacy Laws" -- should either be "for violating country's privacy laws" or "for violation of country's privacy laws".
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That's not even the only time Denuvo has shit the bed this week.
Faulty DRM breaks dozens of games on Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs
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All of these would seem to qualify as what the bill calls an "input-transparent algorithm", as none of the criteria you just listed involve the use of user-specific data.
You can still do a Google search even if you're not logged into a Google account, you know.
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I don't see how.
Layouts are handled client-side, through the browser, generally through CSS and sometimes through JavaScript.
In neither case is the layout handled through supplying data to the server; it's all handled on the frontend. I don't see any possible interpretation where this information is "provided by the user to the platform".
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Every modern browser will ask the user for permission to provide location data if a web page attempts to access it.
That would seem to cover the opt-in requirement, and seems preferable to drawing inferences based on your IP address anyway.
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