That Anonymous Coward (profile), 2 Jun 2020 @ 12:22am
Oh look, a reason to seize the corporations and nationalize their holdings in the countries.
We lost money b/c you wanted people not to die PAY ME!!
Seems like a really good reason to take a few of them out to send a message... & hey you might manage to find all the places they've been hiding income so they don't have to pay taxes to you.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 May 2020 @ 5:06pm
"Your privacy is important to us"
The check is in the mail, the government is your freind and no baby I won't something something in your mouth...
Little lies we all seem to accept, & refuse to demand change.
Data Broker collects your entire life & leaks it all over...
oooh credit monitoring, faux apology, & you get the bill to fix your life.
Fine to the company... less than $5 a person who got screwed.
Cory Doctrow has compared our personal data to toxic waste, something that should be locked away because allowing it out will cause huge harm. The downside is we keep accepting the "SuperFund" solution where we let it leak, slap the leaker on the wrist, & all the costs for clean up are paid by the public.
These companies are making huge amounts from collecting it all, but it seems the law wants to protect their profits over us. We need to rethink how this works & put people first profits maybe 3rd.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 May 2020 @ 4:53pm
For the record, we have over 100,000 people dead in this country.
Members of Congress & pundits are more upset over fact checking a tweet then bodies in the streets.
This is yet another dog whistle to keep the base distracted & riled up.
If you had to make a cake for my wedding it would infringe on your rights!!!
If I refused to provide medical aid to you b/c of your political party or religion you'd freak the fsck out.
Perhaps it is time we try again to remind people rights are not a 1 way street, that if you claim this right only for you then perhaps you are as bad as those you are calling out.
You have every right to call me a faggot
I have every right to call you a closet case
You and I do not have the right to demand only 1 of us get to call names & pretend that our rights are violated if our host shuts one or both of us up.
Cities on fire
people dying due to violence, virus, neglect
but the most important thing is to make sure our leader can lie to us unchecked
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 29 May 2020 @ 4:46pm
From the industry that still charges a fee for the breakage of records in shipment to the artists, perhaps it is time for a change.
How the law lets the company make the records, pick how they are packaged & shipped, & then put the costs of picking '2 guys who drop shit' as the shipper who break a lot of things on the artist is confusing.
Once upon a time the gatekeepers were needed to get word out you existed, unhappy with those profits they created Payola to earn more for them not artists, now they still love to pretend they matter. They promote artists through tiny subsidiaries (that make sure all the profits are cut away at every step up the line to the artist) to make them look organic b/c organic artists are kicking their asses. They no longer have total control of the gate & are doing everything they can to keep some control (even when the content has nothing to do with them).
How dare artists want to have control of their creations decades later, when the labels still might find a way to make a couple more cents (and hide any cut due the artists).
Copyright is massive & lopsided. It no longer functions how the founders, artists, the public were promised it would. While the cartels scream how its unfair & pirates are murdering them... how is it still possible that they can collect royalties but not find the artist they are due to?
They spend millions of dollars on snakeoil to win the piracy war, but the artists need to register with 10,000 rights groups around the globe to get all due them?
Once upon a time gatekeepers did at least something to earn their lions share, now they just thrash & scream trying to punish artists who don't want to be on yet another copyright extension compilation that only benefits the labels.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 28 May 2020 @ 5:03pm
The added bonus for SDC is that anyone who is unhappy will think 3 times about saying anything to anyone.
The fact that they have that many BBB complaints and still an A+ rating does raise the question about how much the rating is based on factual things and how much is based on fees.
This is a hail mary pass that they hope they will get some sort of payday but no one can really put a price on the benefit they get from keeping critics silent.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 27 May 2020 @ 5:24pm
"this project is currently sponsored by Google, Twitter, and Protocol Labs. For some, this will discredit the entire project."
And that would be a shame, but about par for the course.
Oh because they touched it we have no chance of it being anything other than PR for them... (said by people who have never read a single fscking word on TechDirt & somehow missed that everyone ends up with their feet in the fire at some point).
It is an easy excuse to throw out to avoid having the conversation at all, well I will have lost before I even tried so why bother. Let me label it as bad, scream how bad it is, but never ever check for myself.
For people playing the home game for the first time, this comment is REALLY damning about peoples preconceived notions of things coming from me.
See if you read the bio written by the cartels:
I am a criminal mastermind, out to make everything free, and murder puppies & kittens to make sure I can watch pirated movies all day.
But if you actually look at what I have done yourself:
Helped expose the largest copyright trolling operation to go down (so far). Highlighted how the law was being abused & offered up simple answers to correct problems (not the wholesale destruction of the law). Tried to offer balance to the completely lopsided law that treats citizens as a nuisance to corporate interests, rather than customers they need to serve.
But then some people won't take me serious because I swear, because of the trendy avatar & name, because I don't seem serious while making hyperbolic examples even the slow reading group can get. And oh well... I am not here to be loved but ignore me at your own peril. I have unique views that aren't what the hype tells you they are, give them a read & see for yourselves.
The greatest trick the cartels ever pulled was making you believe pirates were stealing from you... when they steal much more from society & our shared culture.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 May 2020 @ 7:48pm
Re: Good Fatth
Barr hasn't seen anything wrong with Trump & his children cashing in on their offices... nothing wrong with Kellyanne violating the law... oh and of the 4 insider traders only the one Trump has an issue with is STILL being investigated... he found an "intresting" way to summarize the mueller report...
This is a witch hunt based on the same thought process that said lets inject lysol to fix it.
There is no way anyone can think that this is in good faith, this is a political hit job to appeal to Trumps base.
For all of the evils everyone claims Google does, they sure manage to overlook it in other industries... I guess its only bad if they silence conservatives while doing it...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 May 2020 @ 7:41pm
What did they expect?
Honestly, we live in the age of never ever ever make your betters look bad or else.
I am sure they awarded the contract to make the leaky thing to someones sisters cousins brother for a hefty fee & thought they were done. Now you DARE suggest we screwed up?
Well fsck you buddy, we will tell the media you are the bad guy & people will believe me because I'm better than you...
(just not better at hiring competent coders or having a system where this could have been reported & I could have avoided looking like a jackbooted fsckboy).
Its easier to blame the invisible enemies than to accept perhaps maybe you are the problem.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 26 May 2020 @ 1:42pm
I think the shine is starting to come off of "BUT TERRORISTS WILL WIN!" as a battle cry if they are this desperate.
If having to do their job is to hard for them, don't remove the laws remove the lazy assholes who think rights are only for senators who do the insider trading that they stop investigating pretending nothing happened.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 May 2020 @ 10:23am
Re: Re: Just a question.
ContentID is built on the premise that all content is owned by a corporation.
While they might own the rights to a specific performance of a classical work, they do not own the rights to the classical work.
If someone does a cover of a Prince song, the Prince estate might be able to make some sort of legal claim (which would be stupid).
Classical music is MEANT to sound the same each time it is played, but whoever puts their recording of a performance of it in ContentID is assumed to be the one true owner of the piece.
The system is unbalanced and fscked, but it is a high holy sacred cow that we can't dare touch b/c it would kill an entire industry that is somehow losing trillions of dollar at the same time they are earning record profits...
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 23 May 2020 @ 10:17am
Re: Re: Re: Just a question.
The problem is the system is designed with the assumption that no one would misuse it.
There is nothing in the law to protect citizens in this, just to terrorize platforms into doing it now now now.
The 5yr story IIRC is DaJazz1 (forgive if my memory is slightly off) the RIAA claimed all the bad things, provided no evidence at all, got the site seized. The site was able to show they "stole" no music, that it was all sent by the labels begging for coverage, but the RIAA claimed they had proof. The proof never appeared & after lying to the feds & courts they just tucked their tail and walked away from the whole thing. (something something that guy who didn't "deface" the website in jail forever facing millions in damages but the RIAA can get the Feds to steal a website & not even an oops sorry required).
YT has multiple problems.
The basic problem with YT is it is assumed if they make a claim they own it.
Bad actors stealing ad money over & over & over.
Try to fight back, your name home address other details are handed over to who made the claim.
YT never ever makes a sanity check on the claims, which is odd as their search engine now verifies every complaint url (which legally they don't have to do as they don't host the content targeted on their servers).
They claimed 3 min of silence meant they owned several silent uploads.
They claimed a bird tweeting in a forest was their rock song & then doubled down and claimed they double check it and the tweeting WAS their music.
Just because they stole MEGA & then made sure it could NEVER be restored (denying innocent people their property legally stored on MEGA) & managed to destroy BACKPAGE (as their own notes prove what they were claiming in court was not true) its not like the Government cares more about corporations than taxpayers... er wait..
Of course the cartels threatened to sue them out of existence for making it easy to see how screwed up the notices are so they added capthcas and made it less useful.
I know on TorrentFreak there were a few stories about how some computers just made pages up they assumed shoudl exist but didn't.
They were all excited to announce they had sent a billion notices, but its really sad when only 10 were legit.
Now a notice generated by a company paid from the proceeds of the lawsuits some courts consider to be evidence of repeat offenders b/c the law doesn't define what the term means so just dressing up your accusations with "technolgies" is enough to get a court to assume the target is the offender without hearing any evidence.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 May 2020 @ 1:52pm
They also do not know -
Water is Wet
Fire is Hot
Fair Use is a thing
Not everything needs to be owned for 500 years
Things should move into the public domain
Lopsided punishments make for a shitty system
The AA's send faulty notices to Google despite Google not hosting the content as required by law
The AA's lie about losses
The AA's lie about earnings
The AA's talk a good game about the poor ripped off workers, leaving out they were already paid & aren't earning more
The AA's lied when they said VHS would kill them
The AA's are more focused on imaginary losses than caring about consumers
The **AA's keep pushing to steal pennies from each other & the "feel" of music belongs to no one
Dead men's 5th generation of off-spring shouldn't be empowered to veto someone building upon our culture
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 22 May 2020 @ 7:30am
From the brilliant minds that want to sue grandmothers for daring to post pictures of their grandkids showing how proud they are of them...
Perhaps they aren't actually solving anything but trying to make people feel better without any effort on their part while trying to get paid by the deep pockets for not being able to jump when told to jump & stay in the air forever.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 May 2020 @ 10:33pm
Re: Still think..
won't make an impression in their terrified reptilian brains that can imagine a baby hearing an unauthorized song might cost them 22 trillion dollars in profits.
they do understand money, if they had to give Google a dollar for every single bad url in a notice they would improve their shit ASAP.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 19 May 2020 @ 10:28pm
OMG PORRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
I was unaware that we got all children adopted out of foster care, all innocent people out of prison, all homeless into homes...
When you keep pushing your plans forward, while people are literally getting sick & dying, that doesn't solve actual deadly problems perhaps you are the problem.
If you think porn is the biggest problem in the nation right now, please attend more church services with like minded people.
On the post: Private Prison Company Sues Netflix Over Use Of Logo In 'Messiah'
"The inmates do not have beds, are kept in overcrowded conditions and surrounded by chain-link fences."
Well then discovery will me lit.
You might be able to keep the media and congress people out, but a Judge will put your CEOs ass in jail for contempt.
On the post: Corporate Sovereignty Lawyers Prepare To Sue Governments For Bringing In Measures To Tackle COVID-19 And Save Lives
Oh look, a reason to seize the corporations and nationalize their holdings in the countries.
We lost money b/c you wanted people not to die PAY ME!!
Seems like a really good reason to take a few of them out to send a message... & hey you might manage to find all the places they've been hiding income so they don't have to pay taxes to you.
On the post: Can You Protect Privacy If There's No Real Enforcement Mechanism?
"Your privacy is important to us"
The check is in the mail, the government is your freind and no baby I won't something something in your mouth...
Little lies we all seem to accept, & refuse to demand change.
Data Broker collects your entire life & leaks it all over...
oooh credit monitoring, faux apology, & you get the bill to fix your life.
Fine to the company... less than $5 a person who got screwed.
Cory Doctrow has compared our personal data to toxic waste, something that should be locked away because allowing it out will cause huge harm. The downside is we keep accepting the "SuperFund" solution where we let it leak, slap the leaker on the wrist, & all the costs for clean up are paid by the public.
These companies are making huge amounts from collecting it all, but it seems the law wants to protect their profits over us. We need to rethink how this works & put people first profits maybe 3rd.
On the post: No, Twitter Fact Checking The President Is Not Evidence Of Anti-Conservative Bias
For the record, we have over 100,000 people dead in this country.
Members of Congress & pundits are more upset over fact checking a tweet then bodies in the streets.
This is yet another dog whistle to keep the base distracted & riled up.
If you had to make a cake for my wedding it would infringe on your rights!!!
If I refused to provide medical aid to you b/c of your political party or religion you'd freak the fsck out.
Perhaps it is time we try again to remind people rights are not a 1 way street, that if you claim this right only for you then perhaps you are as bad as those you are calling out.
You have every right to call me a faggot
I have every right to call you a closet case
You and I do not have the right to demand only 1 of us get to call names & pretend that our rights are violated if our host shuts one or both of us up.
Cities on fire
people dying due to violence, virus, neglect
but the most important thing is to make sure our leader can lie to us unchecked
On the post: District Court Mostly Refuses To Terminate The Litigation Testing The Copyright Termination Provision
From the industry that still charges a fee for the breakage of records in shipment to the artists, perhaps it is time for a change.
How the law lets the company make the records, pick how they are packaged & shipped, & then put the costs of picking '2 guys who drop shit' as the shipper who break a lot of things on the artist is confusing.
Once upon a time the gatekeepers were needed to get word out you existed, unhappy with those profits they created Payola to earn more for them not artists, now they still love to pretend they matter. They promote artists through tiny subsidiaries (that make sure all the profits are cut away at every step up the line to the artist) to make them look organic b/c organic artists are kicking their asses. They no longer have total control of the gate & are doing everything they can to keep some control (even when the content has nothing to do with them).
How dare artists want to have control of their creations decades later, when the labels still might find a way to make a couple more cents (and hide any cut due the artists).
Copyright is massive & lopsided. It no longer functions how the founders, artists, the public were promised it would. While the cartels scream how its unfair & pirates are murdering them... how is it still possible that they can collect royalties but not find the artist they are due to?
They spend millions of dollars on snakeoil to win the piracy war, but the artists need to register with 10,000 rights groups around the globe to get all due them?
Once upon a time gatekeepers did at least something to earn their lions share, now they just thrash & scream trying to punish artists who don't want to be on yet another copyright extension compilation that only benefits the labels.
On the post: SmileDirectClub Sues NBC For $2.85 Billion, Claims Factual Statements And Quotes From Customers Are Defamatory
The added bonus for SDC is that anyone who is unhappy will think 3 times about saying anything to anyone.
The fact that they have that many BBB complaints and still an A+ rating does raise the question about how much the rating is based on factual things and how much is based on fees.
This is a hail mary pass that they hope they will get some sort of payday but no one can really put a price on the benefit they get from keeping critics silent.
On the post: Introducing The Tech Policy Greenhouse: Let's Have Thoughtful Conversations About The Biggest Tech Policy Challenges
"this project is currently sponsored by Google, Twitter, and Protocol Labs. For some, this will discredit the entire project."
And that would be a shame, but about par for the course.
Oh because they touched it we have no chance of it being anything other than PR for them... (said by people who have never read a single fscking word on TechDirt & somehow missed that everyone ends up with their feet in the fire at some point).
It is an easy excuse to throw out to avoid having the conversation at all, well I will have lost before I even tried so why bother. Let me label it as bad, scream how bad it is, but never ever check for myself.
For people playing the home game for the first time, this comment is REALLY damning about peoples preconceived notions of things coming from me.
See if you read the bio written by the cartels:
I am a criminal mastermind, out to make everything free, and murder puppies & kittens to make sure I can watch pirated movies all day.
But if you actually look at what I have done yourself:
Helped expose the largest copyright trolling operation to go down (so far). Highlighted how the law was being abused & offered up simple answers to correct problems (not the wholesale destruction of the law). Tried to offer balance to the completely lopsided law that treats citizens as a nuisance to corporate interests, rather than customers they need to serve.
But then some people won't take me serious because I swear, because of the trendy avatar & name, because I don't seem serious while making hyperbolic examples even the slow reading group can get. And oh well... I am not here to be loved but ignore me at your own peril. I have unique views that aren't what the hype tells you they are, give them a read & see for yourselves.
The greatest trick the cartels ever pulled was making you believe pirates were stealing from you... when they steal much more from society & our shared culture.
On the post: So Wait, People Really Think The Barr DOJ's Investigation Into Google Is In Good Faith?
Re: Good Fatth
Barr hasn't seen anything wrong with Trump & his children cashing in on their offices... nothing wrong with Kellyanne violating the law... oh and of the 4 insider traders only the one Trump has an issue with is STILL being investigated... he found an "intresting" way to summarize the mueller report...
This is a witch hunt based on the same thought process that said lets inject lysol to fix it.
There is no way anyone can think that this is in good faith, this is a political hit job to appeal to Trumps base.
For all of the evils everyone claims Google does, they sure manage to overlook it in other industries... I guess its only bad if they silence conservatives while doing it...
On the post: Arkansas Can't Secure Financial Assistance Site So Governor Decides To Call The Person Discovering The Breach A Criminal
What did they expect?
Honestly, we live in the age of never ever ever make your betters look bad or else.
I am sure they awarded the contract to make the leaky thing to someones sisters cousins brother for a hefty fee & thought they were done. Now you DARE suggest we screwed up?
Well fsck you buddy, we will tell the media you are the bad guy & people will believe me because I'm better than you...
(just not better at hiring competent coders or having a system where this could have been reported & I could have avoided looking like a jackbooted fsckboy).
Its easier to blame the invisible enemies than to accept perhaps maybe you are the problem.
On the post: Senate Talking Points Say Warrantless Collection Of Internet Use Data Keeps Terrorists From Killing Us
I think the shine is starting to come off of "BUT TERRORISTS WILL WIN!" as a battle cry if they are this desperate.
If having to do their job is to hard for them, don't remove the laws remove the lazy assholes who think rights are only for senators who do the insider trading that they stop investigating pretending nothing happened.
On the post: So Wait, People Really Think The Barr DOJ's Investigation Into Google Is In Good Faith?
There are people who believe there are sealed indictments against Dr. Fauci for trying to overthrow the country....
So yes, they think this is all about making sure they aren't shadowbanned or muted for calling people named but other people can;t hurt their feels.
On the post: Does The US Copyright Office Not Know That Copyright Policy's Main Stakeholders Are The Public?
Re: Re: Just a question.
ContentID is built on the premise that all content is owned by a corporation.
While they might own the rights to a specific performance of a classical work, they do not own the rights to the classical work.
If someone does a cover of a Prince song, the Prince estate might be able to make some sort of legal claim (which would be stupid).
Classical music is MEANT to sound the same each time it is played, but whoever puts their recording of a performance of it in ContentID is assumed to be the one true owner of the piece.
The system is unbalanced and fscked, but it is a high holy sacred cow that we can't dare touch b/c it would kill an entire industry that is somehow losing trillions of dollar at the same time they are earning record profits...
On the post: Does The US Copyright Office Not Know That Copyright Policy's Main Stakeholders Are The Public?
Re: Re: Re: Just a question.
The problem is the system is designed with the assumption that no one would misuse it.
There is nothing in the law to protect citizens in this, just to terrorize platforms into doing it now now now.
The 5yr story IIRC is DaJazz1 (forgive if my memory is slightly off) the RIAA claimed all the bad things, provided no evidence at all, got the site seized. The site was able to show they "stole" no music, that it was all sent by the labels begging for coverage, but the RIAA claimed they had proof. The proof never appeared & after lying to the feds & courts they just tucked their tail and walked away from the whole thing. (something something that guy who didn't "deface" the website in jail forever facing millions in damages but the RIAA can get the Feds to steal a website & not even an oops sorry required).
YT has multiple problems.
The basic problem with YT is it is assumed if they make a claim they own it.
Bad actors stealing ad money over & over & over.
Try to fight back, your name home address other details are handed over to who made the claim.
YT never ever makes a sanity check on the claims, which is odd as their search engine now verifies every complaint url (which legally they don't have to do as they don't host the content targeted on their servers).
They claimed 3 min of silence meant they owned several silent uploads.
They claimed a bird tweeting in a forest was their rock song & then doubled down and claimed they double check it and the tweeting WAS their music.
Just because they stole MEGA & then made sure it could NEVER be restored (denying innocent people their property legally stored on MEGA) & managed to destroy BACKPAGE (as their own notes prove what they were claiming in court was not true) its not like the Government cares more about corporations than taxpayers... er wait..
On the post: Banks Get Payout From Equifax Hack While Consumers Still Wait For Compensation
Of the Corporations
By the Corporations
For the Corporations
On the post: Does The US Copyright Office Not Know That Copyright Policy's Main Stakeholders Are The Public?
Re: Just a question.
https://www.lumendatabase.org/
Of course the cartels threatened to sue them out of existence for making it easy to see how screwed up the notices are so they added capthcas and made it less useful.
I know on TorrentFreak there were a few stories about how some computers just made pages up they assumed shoudl exist but didn't.
They were all excited to announce they had sent a billion notices, but its really sad when only 10 were legit.
Now a notice generated by a company paid from the proceeds of the lawsuits some courts consider to be evidence of repeat offenders b/c the law doesn't define what the term means so just dressing up your accusations with "technolgies" is enough to get a court to assume the target is the offender without hearing any evidence.
On the post: Does The US Copyright Office Not Know That Copyright Policy's Main Stakeholders Are The Public?
They also do not know -
Water is Wet
Fire is Hot
Fair Use is a thing
Not everything needs to be owned for 500 years
Things should move into the public domain
Lopsided punishments make for a shitty system
The AA's send faulty notices to Google despite Google not hosting the content as required by law
The AA's lie about losses
The AA's lie about earnings
The AA's talk a good game about the poor ripped off workers, leaving out they were already paid & aren't earning more
The AA's lied when they said VHS would kill them
The AA's are more focused on imaginary losses than caring about consumers
The **AA's keep pushing to steal pennies from each other & the "feel" of music belongs to no one
Dead men's 5th generation of off-spring shouldn't be empowered to veto someone building upon our culture
To depressed to carry on....
On the post: Yes, This Site Uses Cookies, Because Nearly All Sites Use Cookies, And We're Notifying You Because We're Told We Have To
From the brilliant minds that want to sue grandmothers for daring to post pictures of their grandkids showing how proud they are of them...
Perhaps they aren't actually solving anything but trying to make people feel better without any effort on their part while trying to get paid by the deep pockets for not being able to jump when told to jump & stay in the air forever.
On the post: Copyright As Censorship: WSJ Identifies Hundreds Of Bogus News Takedowns; People Blame Google Rather Than Copyright
Re: Still think..
won't make an impression in their terrified reptilian brains that can imagine a baby hearing an unauthorized song might cost them 22 trillion dollars in profits.
they do understand money, if they had to give Google a dollar for every single bad url in a notice they would improve their shit ASAP.
On the post: FBI Holds Press Conference To Claim Apple Prevented It From [Checks Notes] Verifying Attribution In The Pensacola Air Base Shooting
Re:
I think it might be time to report the FBI to someone in power...
They've created more terrorist plots than AQ even dreamed of...
On the post: As Expected, Those Who Pushed For FOSTA Are Now Looking To Kill Off Porn
OMG PORRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
I was unaware that we got all children adopted out of foster care, all innocent people out of prison, all homeless into homes...
When you keep pushing your plans forward, while people are literally getting sick & dying, that doesn't solve actual deadly problems perhaps you are the problem.
If you think porn is the biggest problem in the nation right now, please attend more church services with like minded people.
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