I disagree with Mike about NFTs, but "shut up and adapt to it" doesn't seem like Mr. Masnick's position at all. Leave the Strawmen to the Wizard of Oz.
For some of us who played PC games in the early 1990's, Apogee Software gave us games such as Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and other lesser-known games such as Wacky Wheels (a DOS Super Mario Kart clone) and Secret Agent. In the mid-90's, they changed their name to 3D Realms and released Duke Nukem 3D which made gangbusters in sales (not to mention advanced the art of making first-person shooters). While its Sequel Duke Nukem Forever was planned, it was in development hell for over a decade until the rights were transferred to Gearbox and it was released to poor reviews. 3DRealms laid off all their employees, and were bought by a Norwegian firm (I think), but the people behind 3DRealms relaunched Apogee as Apogee Entertainment in 2020 and in 2021, they announced (and released) new games as well as remasters of old ones and marketed themselves as "the original indie publisher". The founder of Apogee, Scott Miller, wrote this post on his blog last October:
The game industry has changed so much since the 90's. And in revolutionary ways that are mind-boggling. Team size is one of these ways.
We just announced several new games in the past few weeks, like Dead Fury, Below the Stone, and most recently Elements and Turbo Overkill. All four of these games are being made by three developers or fewer. Back in the 90's, to accomplish what these ultra-small teams have already done would have taken 20-person teams.
HOW'S THIS EVEN POSSIBLE? LET'S COUNT THE WAYS...
Engines like Unity and Unreal have advanced and matured significantly, and are so feature-packed that they allow for nearly anything the imagination desires.
The marketplaces for these engines give developers access to code modules that can be dropped into a game to do any number of things, like NPC AI, weapons effects, physics, animations, and the list goes on and on.
The marketplace also has art and models that can be bought for cheap and used in an indie developer's game. In many cases, art/models bought on the marketplace can be fairly easily modified to make it unique and to better fit the game.
These are just some of the radical shortcuts that didn't really exist two plus decades ago, and much of it not even a decade ago. Indie developers have never had it so good, and this is one of the reason the indie scene is simply exploding. No longer does all of a game's code and art assets need to be built from scratch, saving tons of time and money.
Will this continue? For example, in a few decades will we be able to simply tell an engine the type of game we want to play and the engine creates it using sophisticated game creation AI?
Therein lies another problem: Not everything is copyrightable, and as I said in the first comment here, AI can't differentiate between what's copyrightable and what isn't; that's how even my friend Dr. Sebastian "Little Scale" Tomczak had his white noise flagged as a cover song despite there being no copyrightability therein.
Re: ContentID Is Attacking "Bedroom" Cover Singers
You understand that copyright law covering musical recordings is not about the recording itself but also the underlying composition, right? That's why ContentID targets melodies.
I make music. Some of my music uses samples and I have cleared all of them. AI isn't sophisticated enough to know which I have cleared and not, so I could foresee a scenario where I have made a track or album of music that uses 1-second samples as instruments to, say, a distributor such as CDBaby, tunecore, or distrokid or a website such as bandcamp, and then the upload filters block them regardless of whether or not I have obtained permission. Considering how much this has happened with YouTube's contentID, to mandate it by legal fiat is just cruel.
If there were not large numbers of people prepared to make modest payments to get access to websites that did not limit their posting, then we can assume that most people do not care and that this is not a major issue.
Dean Baker says this as if I don't subscribe to Video Streaming Services, Artists on Patreon, Journalists on Substack, Adobe's software and other subscriptionware, and to rent digital music on TIDAL.
People are already paying a monthly fee. Could Dean Baker be that out of touch, or are the pro-sec.-230 children wrong?
For the longest time, reddit, as just one example, was almost entirely free of moderation. And by "longest time" I describe a period that last years and not weeks or months.
Even Reddit was moderated. Otherwise, it would fill up with Child Pornography and copyright infringement and things that would hold it liable.
it remains aggressively idiotic that state leaders continue to block [municipal broadband efforts], often under the misleading claim of "market freedom,"
I wouldn't just say it's misleading; I'd say it's Orwellian.
On the post: Gaming Like It's 1926: Join The Fourth Annual Public Domain Game Jam
Glaring Omission
I didn't see anything about adaptations of Sound Recordings prior to 1923. Shouldn't something about that fact have been put in the Game Jam?
After all, it's not just works from 1926 whose ©'s have expired today…
On the post: New Year's Message: The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is A Twisty Path
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To be fair, 2021 did experience the downfall of Richard Liebowitz, so there’s always hope!
On the post: New Year's Message: The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is A Twisty Path
Re: Re: no one remembers history
In the age of streaming, does it really matter anyway?
On the post: New Year's Message: The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is A Twisty Path
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What are you talking about? I know Mike is in favor of web3 and NFTs, but I didn't see him dismiss out of hand people who have concerns about it.
I mean, if you can back up your claims, provide the links, please.
On the post: New Year's Message: The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is A Twisty Path
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I disagree with Mike about NFTs, but "shut up and adapt to it" doesn't seem like Mr. Masnick's position at all. Leave the Strawmen to the Wizard of Oz.
Speaking of which, get a brain.
On the post: New Year's Message: The Arc Of The Moral Universe Is A Twisty Path
A place of optimism about the future.
For some of us who played PC games in the early 1990's, Apogee Software gave us games such as Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, and other lesser-known games such as Wacky Wheels (a DOS Super Mario Kart clone) and Secret Agent. In the mid-90's, they changed their name to 3D Realms and released Duke Nukem 3D which made gangbusters in sales (not to mention advanced the art of making first-person shooters). While its Sequel Duke Nukem Forever was planned, it was in development hell for over a decade until the rights were transferred to Gearbox and it was released to poor reviews. 3DRealms laid off all their employees, and were bought by a Norwegian firm (I think), but the people behind 3DRealms relaunched Apogee as Apogee Entertainment in 2020 and in 2021, they announced (and released) new games as well as remasters of old ones and marketed themselves as "the original indie publisher". The founder of Apogee, Scott Miller, wrote this post on his blog last October:
So yeah, it's not all doom and gloom everywhere.
On the post: The Copyright Industry Wants Everything Filtered As It Is Uploaded; Here's Why That Will Be A Disaster
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ContentID Is Attacking "Bedroom" Cover Singe
Therein lies another problem: Not everything is copyrightable, and as I said in the first comment here, AI can't differentiate between what's copyrightable and what isn't; that's how even my friend Dr. Sebastian "Little Scale" Tomczak had his white noise flagged as a cover song despite there being no copyrightability therein.
On the post: The Copyright Industry Wants Everything Filtered As It Is Uploaded; Here's Why That Will Be A Disaster
Re: Re: ContentID Is Attacking "Bedroom" Cover Singers
*not just about the recording itself. Oops.
On the post: The Copyright Industry Wants Everything Filtered As It Is Uploaded; Here's Why That Will Be A Disaster
Re: ContentID Is Attacking "Bedroom" Cover Singers
You understand that copyright law covering musical recordings is not about the recording itself but also the underlying composition, right? That's why ContentID targets melodies.
On the post: Those Who Don't Understand Section 230 Are Doomed To Repeal It
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Sounds like the case with Stratton Oakmont, except §230 got there first and you get to see the benefits!
On the post: Klobuchar's Silly Letter To Facebook Raises 1st Amendment Issues And Only Gives Ammo To Misinfo Peddlers That Facebook Is A State Actor
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Koby can't even see wood and leaves.
On the post: The Copyright Industry Wants Everything Filtered As It Is Uploaded; Here's Why That Will Be A Disaster
One reason why upload filters are bad
I make music. Some of my music uses samples and I have cleared all of them. AI isn't sophisticated enough to know which I have cleared and not, so I could foresee a scenario where I have made a track or album of music that uses 1-second samples as instruments to, say, a distributor such as CDBaby, tunecore, or distrokid or a website such as bandcamp, and then the upload filters block them regardless of whether or not I have obtained permission. Considering how much this has happened with YouTube's contentID, to mandate it by legal fiat is just cruel.
On the post: Those Who Don't Understand Section 230 Are Doomed To Repeal It
re: Dean Baker's Subscription idea
Dean Baker says this as if I don't subscribe to Video Streaming Services, Artists on Patreon, Journalists on Substack, Adobe's software and other subscriptionware, and to rent digital music on TIDAL.
People are already paying a monthly fee. Could Dean Baker be that out of touch, or are the pro-sec.-230 children wrong?
On the post: Weeks After Blasting Twitter For 'Strangling Free Expression' GETTR Bans The Term 'Groyper' In Effort To Stop White Nationalist Spam
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Even Reddit was moderated. Otherwise, it would fill up with Child Pornography and copyright infringement and things that would hold it liable.
On the post: Weeks After Blasting Twitter For 'Strangling Free Expression' GETTR Bans The Term 'Groyper' In Effort To Stop White Nationalist Spam
Idea for GETTR
Why not make a word filter a la 4chan and whenever someone writes "Groyper" it shows up with something like "[word redacted]"?
On the post: Google Will Cripple OnHub Routers Starting Next Year
What this tells me,
is to never, ever buy a router from Google.
On the post: Tanzania's Abuse Of US Copyright Law To Silence Critics On Twitter Should Be A Warning For Regulators Looking To Mess With Content Moderation
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Why are you here, then?
On the post: 3 Out Of 4 Americans Support Community Broadband, Yet 19 States Still Ban Or Hinder Such Networks
I wouldn't just say it's misleading; I'd say it's Orwellian.
On the post: The US Gov't Paid For Moderna To Develop Its Vaccine; But Moderna Wants To Keep The Patent All To Itself
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If we had legislators who governed based on reason and not campaign contributors, stuff like this would happen yesterday.
On the post: Hershey Goes On A Threat Blitz Against A Bunch Of Independent Breweries
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So you just copy and pasted my comment and then added a phishing link in the end? Man, you trolls are getting desperate…
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