The problem is these companies can ignore all economic reason with a bag of money.
It's difficult to compete if you're working to pay this months rent and the competition has lots of money they can loose.
Once I heard a talk from a manufacturer of machines on ships. They used Unix because they had an expected lifespan of 30 years. It was SUNOS at the time....
Let competitors organise, then you can force them into competitive behaviour like this If you wait until they are merged into mega corporations, there is nothing that can be done.
How much easier life would have been for antitrust if Google, Facebook or the cable companies were only examples of many cooperating companies. Cooperating with protocols, not fighting with containers.
If you follow the theory "copyright is brain damage" https://youtu.be/XO9FKQAxWZc you could say that Twitter is a cancer that pulls in all discussion into non relevant topics.
Maybe that is something society can do without.
I've read your push for protocols. This could be the push towards P2P protocols. Or at least the end of world wide universal containers.
People volunteering in their communities in stead of fighting on Twitter. People making movies without their audiences being swept away by Hollywood marketing.
Anybody interested in P2P-social media to share some memes?
Very convenient. New censorship, just when the army is shooting at people in yellow vests. You'll see they declare protests to be a sporting event covered by the new copyright declared in the same directive.
Of course, these people probably are no good. But please keep in mind that everybody looks bad in the papers if they get arrested.
Arresting people for random offences because they look bad, is what makes a police state.
IPFS is no blockchain, it's a distributed hashtable. But indeed, there could be applications in contact law, the basis of blockchain is the partners can't be trusted, and efficient distribution is based on some kind of trust.
Indeed, feelings have to be added in. If a creative AI is build to do something creative, it's feelings will be optimized to maximize exposure of it's work.
That AI will be build to hate copyright.
I really don't care about the "ownership" of the work. It's just that I'm afraid everybody starts to do crazy things because "it's with AI".
Too much people want the producer play a role in the handling of stuff. That's a grave danger to the right to tinker.
So I would say: in the first place the operator is responsible, if there is no operator, the owner is. And if Burrow-Gilles demands creative labor, there is copyright if one of them did any creative labor.
On the post: Is 'This Time Different' Concerning Big Internet Dominance?
The problem is these companies can ignore all economic reason with a bag of money.
It's difficult to compete if you're working to pay this months rent and the competition has lots of money they can loose.
On the post: Congress Now Pushing 'Bring Back The Patent Trolls' Bill
Chine
Let's hope China is really blocked. Innovation could survive behind the trade war blockades.
On the post: One Year Into The GDPR: Can We Declare It A Total Failure Yet?
Re: GDPR
I believe it's the law of Kamphuis: If the lawmakers keep failing, it's not because they are stupid, but because they have other goals.
On the post: You Don't Own What You've Bought: Google Nest Edition
Updates.,..
I read a story sometime ago over airplanes....
Now I have two thoughts with every update:
On the post: You Don't Own What You've Bought: Google Nest Edition
Re: Re: Love technology.. except..
Once I heard a talk from a manufacturer of machines on ships. They used Unix because they had an expected lifespan of 30 years. It was SUNOS at the time....
On the post: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: Some Republican Politicians Are Indistinguishable From Neo Nazis
Re: Re:
But the fact is ignored that republican politicians really like moderators, because "moderation saves our children from terrorism".
On the post: German Publishing Giant Claims Blocking Ads Is Copyright Infringement, In Yet Another Lawsuit Against The Industry Leader
It's not about the money,
It's about absolute control over their customers.
On the post: DOJ Warns Academy That Being An Anti-Streaming Luddite Could Violate Antitrust
Re:
It's no bribery. It's payment the greatest movie commercial on earth for a service.
On the post: DOJ Warns Academy That Being An Anti-Streaming Luddite Could Violate Antitrust
Antitrust should be this way more often
Let competitors organise, then you can force them into competitive behaviour like this If you wait until they are merged into mega corporations, there is nothing that can be done.
How much easier life would have been for antitrust if Google, Facebook or the cable companies were only examples of many cooperating companies. Cooperating with protocols, not fighting with containers.
On the post: Here Comes The Splinternet: How The EU Is Helping Break Apart The Internet
Re:
On the post: Here Comes The Splinternet: How The EU Is Helping Break Apart The Internet
Could be good...
I've read your push for protocols. This could be the push towards P2P protocols. Or at least the end of world wide universal containers.
People volunteering in their communities in stead of fighting on Twitter. People making movies without their audiences being swept away by Hollywood marketing.
Anybody interested in P2P-social media to share some memes?
On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters
Re: Re: Re: BANNING MEMES
And you can't wave copyright, so using copyleft stuff isn't going to help.
On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters
Re: Filters are censorship
At least there will be a lot of spare bandwidth.
On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters
Re: The real goal.
But let's be optimistic: if France introduces this law fast enough, it breaks down before it's implemented in other countries.
On the post: After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters
The real goal.
Very convenient. New censorship, just when the army is shooting at people in yellow vests. You'll see they declare protests to be a sporting event covered by the new copyright declared in the same directive.
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Re: Re:
On the post: New Zealand Censors Declare Christchurch Shooting Footage Illegal; Start Rounding Up Violators
Very scary
Of course, these people probably are no good. But please keep in mind that everybody looks bad in the papers if they get arrested.
Arresting people for random offences because they look bad, is what makes a police state.
On the post: How To Actually Break Up Big Tech
Re: Re:
IPFS is no blockchain, it's a distributed hashtable. But indeed, there could be applications in contact law, the basis of blockchain is the partners can't be trusted, and efficient distribution is based on some kind of trust.
On the post: AI Writes Article About AI: Does The Newspaper Hold The Copyright?
Re: AI feelings.
Indeed, feelings have to be added in. If a creative AI is build to do something creative, it's feelings will be optimized to maximize exposure of it's work. That AI will be build to hate copyright.
On the post: AI Writes Article About AI: Does The Newspaper Hold The Copyright?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
I really don't care about the "ownership" of the work. It's just that I'm afraid everybody starts to do crazy things because "it's with AI". Too much people want the producer play a role in the handling of stuff. That's a grave danger to the right to tinker. So I would say: in the first place the operator is responsible, if there is no operator, the owner is. And if Burrow-Gilles demands creative labor, there is copyright if one of them did any creative labor.
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