When Nimmer does the exact same thing by himself, it's "reminding us that the practice of copyright law isn't only exciting but difficult" and to be celebrated. When a diverse group of scholars -- including Nimmer -- work on the very same thing, it's
...it's a clear infringement on a 50+ years monopoly on interpretation of the law! How dare you.
The entire copyright industry (and all its courtiers) is a feudal system, which relies on privileges corruptly granted by the sovereign and thrives on byzantine rituals and traditions just for the sake of exclusivity. This letter by Congress members is a subversive attempt to grant a sort of dukedom on the territories of copyright to a private individual and his son. Such hereditary titles are heresy in the Republic and they should be expelled from Congress for violating the Title of Nobility Clause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause
Except they do make a distinction. It helps if you actually read what you're commenting. The complaint states:
Article 82 of the loi Informatique et Libertés provides that the requirement of prior consent does not
apply if access to information stored in the user's terminal equipment or the registration of information
in the user's terminal equipment (1) has the exclusive purpose of allowing or facilitating
communication by electronic means; or (2) is strictly necessary for the provision of an online
communication service at the user's express request. These exceptions are strictly interpreted by the
French authorities. In a decision of 6 June 2018, the Conseil d’Etat considered that all cookies that are
set for advertising purposes cannot be treated as cookies "strictly necessary for the provision" of an
online communication service, even when such cookies are necessary for the economic viability of a
website (Council of State, 10th - 9th chambers together, 06/06/2018, 412589).
More realistically they could sell the content at 1 $ to some competitor. Maybe a Sympa or Discourse commercial hosting provider with enough capital to shoulder the losses for a while in return for publicity? Like SmugMug with Flickr, they could then purge the most expensive groups (porn can probably be kept elsewhere) and keep 99,9 % of the real content.
Or yes, they could just make a giant set of mbox files for the text content of all groups and be done with it in a short while. Then people could import them into their mail client (given Yahoo has said "don't worry, the archives remain in your email!"), mailman or whatever. Did nobody exercise their GDPR art. 20 right to data portability? It says "structured, commonly used and machine-readable format", can't think of anything but mbox. Yahoo is legally obliged o produce mbox files, as I read it.
So not only they're smearing a respected law professor, but it's also foreign state-funded smearing? I wonder if this complies with the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Capt. Elle Ekman is hopelessly confused: they seem to think that the military has some intrinsic right to do whatever it is doing.
The defense budget was created only to distribute federal money to the private corporations, not to make some officer happy. If the corporations couldn't profit off the military, Congress would eliminate the army the very next day, and Capt. Elle Ekman would be unemployed.
In Europe, party members are the members of associations which have the formal right to vote on bylaws of the party and stuff like that. They're activists and supporters, not registered voters.
Nice win, of course, but I'm confident they're just lies. CDU has made all sorts of promises in the past (OA, OER, open internet, ...) but in the end they've always acted as copyright maximalists, while pretending otherwise.
For your information that's very much a thing. In Italy you pay 32.20 € on a phone or other device with over 400 GB memory for the "tax" (private copy levy or "equo compenso", fair compensation, in copyright newspeak). https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2014/07/07/14A05171/sg
Found by chance today:
«Other findings were less foreseeable: digitization has brought no pressure to reform state broadcasters, less than one-third of countries found that digital media have helped to expand the social impact of investigative journalism, and digitization has not significantly affected total news diversity.» https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/mapping-digital-media-global-findin gs
Curiously, the same newspapers call everyone else a Google shill if they're selling a service to Google (e.g. advertising space or Google-by-default position on their software), but were perfectly fine getting free money from it. Anyway.
As already noted by others, there's nothing new about asking corporations to fund permanently unprofitable media. There's also no need to invent anything new for central funding: there are plenty of examples of the state giving subsidies to the media, and raising taxes at the scale required is not rocket science: taxation + democratic distribution may be inefficient, but at least it can be designed to be reasonably fair.
"Interoperability of software and services unlikely to be part of the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA, according to EC representative at a @DataInnovation
event. The issue is more related to market power/switching costs debate." https://twitter.com/fra_versace/status/1197083166990843912
Forgot about Elsevier and LibGen. The article is about:
several Sci-Hub and Libgen related domains
What do "people looking for [Elsevier] content" have to do with this? Are you assuming that the Streisand effect would come from people learning of the block from Elsevier itself? I don't think this is a reasonable assumption, unless you have evidence of some Elsevier website or newsletter or other medium carrying a notice about the block. I think they got smarter than that ever since the libraries canceling Elsevier big deals have started putting out big banners "we do not endorse the usage of Sci-Hub as alternative method of access".
If you're instead assuming that the audience of the press carrying news of the block and the audience of Elsevier content have a big overlap, that might be true, but it cannot be assumed. If it were shown to be true, I'd argue it would prove self-censorship in the mainstream media, designed to prevent people from learning about LibGen.
people will try to use methods such as VPNs or tor to bypass the geoblocking
The users who jump to the VPN immediately after the block must be those who were already using the services before the block. The Streisand effect would be if new people come to know about the services. They would presumably need to find out about them before trying to access them with a VPN.
...but, your search parameters did.
No, they didn't. I never claimed that measuring German-language consumption would cover all consumption from Austria. That's a straw man you created.
It's always a fallacy to assume that people in a country are only interested in content in a specific language.
I already see the Federalist Society adding "Has never ever tried to write or read source code of a computer program" to their requirements for a job of judge.
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Addiction to monopolies
...it's a clear infringement on a 50+ years monopoly on interpretation of the law! How dare you.
The entire copyright industry (and all its courtiers) is a feudal system, which relies on privileges corruptly granted by the sovereign and thrives on byzantine rituals and traditions just for the sake of exclusivity. This letter by Congress members is a subversive attempt to grant a sort of dukedom on the territories of copyright to a private individual and his son. Such hereditary titles are heresy in the Republic and they should be expelled from Congress for violating the Title of Nobility Clause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause
On the post: Guess What? Many Cookie Banners Ignore Your Wishes, So Max Schrems Goes On The GDPR Attack Again
Re: Purpose of a cookie
Except they do make a distinction. It helps if you actually read what you're commenting. The complaint states:
Article 82 of the loi Informatique et Libertés provides that the requirement of prior consent does not
apply if access to information stored in the user's terminal equipment or the registration of information
in the user's terminal equipment (1) has the exclusive purpose of allowing or facilitating
communication by electronic means; or (2) is strictly necessary for the provision of an online
communication service at the user's express request. These exceptions are strictly interpreted by the
French authorities. In a decision of 6 June 2018, the Conseil d’Etat considered that all cookies that are
set for advertising purposes cannot be treated as cookies "strictly necessary for the provision" of an
online communication service, even when such cookies are necessary for the economic viability of a
website (Council of State, 10th - 9th chambers together, 06/06/2018, 412589).
On the post: Verizon Is Undermining Efforts To Archive Yahoo Groups...For No Coherent Reason
Re: Just mail a copy
Yes, sort of. Apparently it was 8 PB in 2011. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21274484
More realistically they could sell the content at 1 $ to some competitor. Maybe a Sympa or Discourse commercial hosting provider with enough capital to shoulder the losses for a while in return for publicity? Like SmugMug with Flickr, they could then purge the most expensive groups (porn can probably be kept elsewhere) and keep 99,9 % of the real content.
Or yes, they could just make a giant set of mbox files for the text content of all groups and be done with it in a short while. Then people could import them into their mail client (given Yahoo has said "don't worry, the archives remain in your email!"), mailman or whatever. Did nobody exercise their GDPR art. 20 right to data portability? It says "structured, commonly used and machine-readable format", can't think of anything but mbox. Yahoo is legally obliged o produce mbox files, as I read it.
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Re: Italian Film Commission
I got a reply. Apparently they didn't know anything about their logo being used by Creative Future.
On the post: Why Won't Creative Future's Members Comment About This Hollywood Front Group Smearing A Well Respected Law Professor?
Italian Film Commission
I notice one of the logos is from the "Italian Film Commissions".
http://www.italianfilmcommissions.it/en/
According to a presentation they gave to the Senate of Italy, the film commissions are branches of the local government of Italy ("ente di emanazione regionale").
https://www.senato.it/application/xmanager/projects/leg17/attachments/dossier/file _internets/000/001/547/Italian_film_commissions.pdf
So not only they're smearing a respected law professor, but it's also foreign state-funded smearing? I wonder if this complies with the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
On the post: Why Won't Creative Future's Members Comment About This Hollywood Front Group Smearing A Well Respected Law Professor?
Typo
"copyrigtability"
P.s.: Thanks for nofollowing the links to the fraudsters' websites! Whatever it does nowadays.
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You have it backwards
Capt. Elle Ekman is hopelessly confused: they seem to think that the military has some intrinsic right to do whatever it is doing.
The defense budget was created only to distribute federal money to the private corporations, not to make some officer happy. If the corporations couldn't profit off the military, Congress would eliminate the army the very next day, and Capt. Elle Ekman would be unemployed.
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Re: Party membership
In Europe, party members are the members of associations which have the formal right to vote on bylaws of the party and stuff like that. They're activists and supporters, not registered voters.
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Pretty usual lies
Nice win, of course, but I'm confident they're just lies. CDU has made all sorts of promises in the past (OA, OER, open internet, ...) but in the end they've always acted as copyright maximalists, while pretending otherwise.
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2018/07/05/etappensieg-fuers-freie-internet/
https://blog.wikim edia.de/2017/07/12/koalitionsvertrag-nordrhein-westfalen-schulfreiheitsgesetz-geplant-freie-bildung- und-open-source-ausgespart/
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2014/02/14/oer-freie-bildunsmaterialien-berlin -geht-voran/
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/11/26/entwurf-koalitionsvertrag-netzpolitik/
On the post: Music Collection Org: Revenues Are Booming... And That's Proof Why We Need Even More Draconian Copyright Laws
Re: Re: Copy levy
For your information that's very much a thing. In Italy you pay 32.20 € on a phone or other device with over 400 GB memory for the "tax" (private copy levy or "equo compenso", fair compensation, in copyright newspeak).
https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2014/07/07/14A05171/sg
The racketeering was so brazen that the Court of Justice of the European Union had to strike it down for some devices which were clearly not supposed to be subjected to the "levy".
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=177701&doclang=en
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Re: Not enough publicity
Ah, finally something happened: twice the pageviews for one article two days ago.
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent =user&range=this-month&pages=Sci-Hub|Library_Genesis
And indeed, the first (?) mainstream press article had come out, talking about additional ISPs getting involved.
https://apps.derstandard.at/privacywall/story/2000111305516/netzsperre-a1-und-t-mobile-blo ckieren-pirate-bay-der-wissenschaft
Google Trends are not yet available for that day.
On the post: Should The Big Tech Companies Voluntarily Fund The Journalism Business?
Mapping Digital Media: Global Findings
Found by chance today:
«Other findings were less foreseeable: digitization has brought no pressure to reform state broadcasters, less than one-third of countries found that digital media have helped to expand the social impact of investigative journalism, and digitization has not significantly affected total news diversity.»
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/mapping-digital-media-global-findin gs
On the post: Should The Big Tech Companies Voluntarily Fund The Journalism Business?
Corrupt patronage
Google already threw hundreds of millions to the big news orgs:
https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/about/
Curiously, the same newspapers call everyone else a Google shill if they're selling a service to Google (e.g. advertising space or Google-by-default position on their software), but were perfectly fine getting free money from it. Anyway.
As already noted by others, there's nothing new about asking corporations to fund permanently unprofitable media. There's also no need to invent anything new for central funding: there are plenty of examples of the state giving subsidies to the media, and raising taxes at the scale required is not rocket science: taxation + democratic distribution may be inefficient, but at least it can be designed to be reasonably fair.
One interesting experiment is Canada giving 50 M$ to local newspapers to produce news under an (unfree) Creative Commons license:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/11/ccnewscontent/
That seems something the USA could easily replicate (if Sinclair hasn't already bought and shut down all local news).
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Not from EU
"Interoperability of software and services unlikely to be part of the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA, according to EC representative at a @DataInnovation
event. The issue is more related to market power/switching costs debate."
https://twitter.com/fra_versace/status/1197083166990843912
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Re: Re: Re: Not enough publicity
For those interested, here are a couple studies of the effects of censorship on the traffic of various sources of information, including Wikipedia pageviews:
http://www.margaretroberts.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/selfiecensorship.pdf
https://da sh.harvard.edu/handle/1/32741922
On the post: Elsevier Gets Sci-Hub And LibGen Blocked In Austria, Thereby Promoting The Use Of VPNs And Tor In The Country
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not enough publicity
Are you assuming that Elsevier only executes actions which achieve their stated purpose and nothing else?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not enough publicity
Indeed they wouldn't show up, hence I was not making any claim about them. Why are you?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Not enough publicity
Forgot about Elsevier and LibGen. The article is about:
What do "people looking for [Elsevier] content" have to do with this? Are you assuming that the Streisand effect would come from people learning of the block from Elsevier itself? I don't think this is a reasonable assumption, unless you have evidence of some Elsevier website or newsletter or other medium carrying a notice about the block. I think they got smarter than that ever since the libraries canceling Elsevier big deals have started putting out big banners "we do not endorse the usage of Sci-Hub as alternative method of access".
If you're instead assuming that the audience of the press carrying news of the block and the audience of Elsevier content have a big overlap, that might be true, but it cannot be assumed. If it were shown to be true, I'd argue it would prove self-censorship in the mainstream media, designed to prevent people from learning about LibGen.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Not enough publicity
The users who jump to the VPN immediately after the block must be those who were already using the services before the block. The Streisand effect would be if new people come to know about the services. They would presumably need to find out about them before trying to access them with a VPN.
No, they didn't. I never claimed that measuring German-language consumption would cover all consumption from Austria. That's a straw man you created.
Indeed, and not one I would be ever found guilty of. If you're interested in the work we do in this field at Wikimedia, see for instance https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/FAQ . If you're interested in this kind of stuff, maybe you can help us improve the CLDR territory-language library? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ULS/FAQ#language-territory
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Re: Re: Re: Technology for technologists.
I already see the Federalist Society adding "Has never ever tried to write or read source code of a computer program" to their requirements for a job of judge.
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