Re: Re: Re: Re: I'll give you a hint: Less choice is seldom cust
Steam. They bribe publishers to coerce them to use the Steam Store exclusively. It is literally the same thing.
Please provide examples, with verifiable proof of this.
Every argument you've made against Epic's store can be equally applied to Steam's.
Missing features - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Scraping data - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Pulling data from other launchers - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Missing Reviews - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Passes on additional costs rather than absorbing them, Steam No, Epic Yes.
Please clarify which statements you are referring to.
The only difference I can see right now is that Epic requires developers to only sell on Epic's store sometimes, while Steam doesn't literally require it, but it ends up being effectively required because the vast, vast majority of people buying PC games online just go to Steam's store first because of the network effect.
That my friend is the power of the market, no one is forcing you to use Steam, publishers CHOOSE to use Steam because of it's user-base, yes there are things wrong with it but generally they are pro consumer, if a publisher chooses under their free will to sell only on Epic due to the revenue split, then that's fine, but bribing them is a whole other set of issues which is what Epic ended doing as it wasn't working as fast as they wanted when they tried to compete by revenue split.
it's also worth noting that other sellers offer steam keys as Steam offers a free API for them to use to sell Steam keys on their own store front.
Right now, I'm only mad because my system tray has too many icons in it, now.
Probably the only accurate thing in your entire statement.
Re: Re: Re: I’m not laughing with you, I’m laughing at you
So if google pays you for some sort or service would that instantly incur your wrath, would you be accused of nefarious things?
I fail to see how Wikipedia is abusing anything, all they are doing it standing up for principles, and this is after there was exclusions put in place just for them in?
Do you have any evidence of Wikipedia's wrong doings in this? that they are abusing some monopoly?
For them to be a monopoly you would have to have no choice in alternative, but as far as I can tell, with a simple search that took me 20 seconds I found:
Columbia Encyclopedia
Digital Universe
Encarta
Encyclopædia Britannica
Everipedia
Everything2
Interpedia
And my personal favourite, Uncyclopedia
Now I've not checked the validity of any of these, but it wouldn't be hard to, there are plenty to choose from.
They boy do I have some content to licence to YouTube now, I a sure I can come up with some drivel that I can licence to them, no one said it had to be good content that get's licenced hahaha
The likes of Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Etc, Etc will have the financial, technical and legal clout to impose some sort of upload filter, not saying this will good, rather I implied it would be very bad as the filters would edge on the side of caution and reject loads of uploads, posts, Etc, Etc because they want to be extra careful they aren't infringing.
No doubt something will get through, and then the new laws would be put to the test to try and hold Google, Youtube, Facebook, Etall liable for the infringement, and that will be an interesting test
Small sites, won't have the resources to do this, and as such would just shut their doors rather than be held liable, thus entrenching the current big players.
The idea of where the servers are located doesn't fall in to this anywhere when it comes to the upload filters.
I will admit there is quite a bit of this new copyright law I don't understand, but I have tried to take the time to understand Article 11 and 13, and I work in the Managed Compute IT industry so have a fairly good understanding of Tech and don't mix it up with Magic like a lot of these politicians seem to all the time.
Re: Re: When the site becomes liable for content I upload...
90% of the time, the sections giving over licence to the item or post is simple there to allow them to store said post/item/upload or whatever it may be, most of the time there is nothing nefarious behind it, it's just them trying to protect themselves from things like these laws.
Re: Re: Lose 1 million, or risk losing 100 million...
What could and most will happen is all the big players will put in upload filters that will edge on the side of caution, small companies or hobbiests won't survive.
Worst case, certain uploads won't be permitted at all.
Re: When the site becomes liable for content I upload...
If you publish your own works, at your own free will, then there is an implied licence in that you've uploaded it yourself, otherwise it would be a honeypot and I am sure there are laws against that.
Not EU based but I am sure that's one of the things that Prenda got caught up in when they uploaded the original file to create a honeypot to start there extortion business.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The EU is losing all legitimacy and credibil
The thing is the UK was never part of the schengen agreement, the UK is the only country within the EU to not be a part of it, the Northen Ireland aspect is oddity in that there is no border between Northen Ireland and IRE, but there is between Northen Ireland and the UK.
In the world of trading you must secure your borders for trade agreements to function effectively, you can not allow products to simply enter a country un-tracked or un-customed, failure to do so undermines the entire system, it's a basic requirement and is written in to pretty much every trade agreement with every country that there will be a customs border and items going in/out will be subjected to it.
Even WTO requires that a border be enforced and that is applied to all 120+ bodies of the WTO.
The EU is only doing what is best for the remaining 27 member states, should the shoe be on the other foot, and another country leaving, would you like to see that one country get special treatment, if undermine all previous trade agreement?
What is more worrying is that we currently have 1 trade agreement ready to go live which is worth £10 Billion and that's it, South Korea and Japan are asking for more concessions from the UK before they will even consider a deal, and other countrys are asking for the UK to lower their standards for a trade deal to be considered, such as some from the US are lobbying for the UK to lower standards to allow the sale of products that otherwise don't meet the EU food standards that we adopted, or some existing trade partners that we have agreements with via the EU that will be cut off post brexit are asking for human rights to be lowered: “Some countries have said that they didn’t like, for example, the human rights elements that were incorporated by the EU and they would like us to drop those in order to roll the agreements over,” , Why would they want human rights to be lowered?
I have contacted all my local MEP's both for and against, asserting points as to why they should be rejecting Articles 11 & 13.
Hopefully they get enough pressure to get them to vote according to what is best for the general public and to stand by them, rather than standing with the few companies that are pushing for these laws.
I really hope that if these do go through, that companies go full nucular and just block all EU IP's and all news sites such as news.google.com just shut the doors to the EU, it would be interesting to see how long it takes before the EU changes course, all it would take is someone like Twitter, or Facebook to stop people comments or uploading, there would be hell by lunch time.
Re: Re: prisoner food -- Welcome back "Bill" after 30 months!
Do you have anything at all to add to, critisise or critque constructivly about Bill's post? Just because people don't post often doesn't make their post less relevant, post count and frequency does not make quality posts.
I expect a dig in return for my low post count and not posting frequently, but what do I know, I only got on editors choice for funny comments of the week once hahaha.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Sorry, but this is a month old news.
"Further, why ACAB fits to most american coppers but not most of european coppers/bobbies is well beyond me..."
Because they earn the title more than they do? Because officers in those other places are trained to de-escalate situations non-violently, whereas the Americans can't wait to use their weapons on helpless people?
Completely agree, had this been in say the UK (And we don't exactly have the best police in the world) this would have been delt with soo much better, the police office wouldn't have even had a weapon drawn, would have approched, attempted to communicate verbally, had that failed they would have tried with hand gestures and approach in a calm and controlled way. they would have only resorted to defence had she attacked the officers, and even then it would be a tazer, they would have just subdued her with physical force (Note, not excessive)
I fail to see why his use of a "Bitcoin Bank" means he deserve to lose his money because you feel it isn't the correct method to store funds.
He secured it correctly, AT&T's method of protecting his mobile account is the root cause of all this, what if someone managed to get access to your traditional bank due to your mobile account being compromised, would you just brush it off, blame the bank, or blame the mobile network providor for granting someone else access to your account for $100?
I've taken to having to fight against the current copyright standings, In respect to the bit AA's and content producers, they seem to be constantly wanting more, never happy and pushing for even more rights in Law which revolve around revenue rather than pushing for the advancements of science.
But I am soo happy to have seen this, I really hope this will be a wakeup call, this can be a good testbed to see how things progress when copyright's are fair and balanced.
Personally I feel copyrights should be for 10 years, and can be renewed twice for a maxamium of 30 years, should you pass on unexpectidly before the last renewal your heir should be able to renew your copyright 1 time, and these renewals are from the first owner, so if rights are sold the counter isn't reset, if you can't profit from something in 30 years then your doing something wrong.
I am sure it's still advertised as $5.99 but has $20 broadcast fee and a $4 recovery fee that's tacked on to the bill, but this isn't part of the cost of the service, this is all required by regulations*
That aside, I don't see why a name should be locked away for use just because someone famous had the same name, I could understand if they called it "Elvis Presley Juice" but alas, they did not.
On the post: If Epic Vs Steam Is To Be A PR War, Epic's Boss Just Issued A Brilliant Retaliatory Strike
Re: Re: Re: Re: I'll give you a hint: Less choice is seldom cust
Steam. They bribe publishers to coerce them to use the Steam Store exclusively. It is literally the same thing.
Please provide examples, with verifiable proof of this.
Every argument you've made against Epic's store can be equally applied to Steam's.
Missing features - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Scraping data - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Pulling data from other launchers - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Missing Reviews - Steam No, Epic Yes.
Passes on additional costs rather than absorbing them, Steam No, Epic Yes.
Please clarify which statements you are referring to.
The only difference I can see right now is that Epic requires developers to only sell on Epic's store sometimes, while Steam doesn't literally require it, but it ends up being effectively required because the vast, vast majority of people buying PC games online just go to Steam's store first because of the network effect.
That my friend is the power of the market, no one is forcing you to use Steam, publishers CHOOSE to use Steam because of it's user-base, yes there are things wrong with it but generally they are pro consumer, if a publisher chooses under their free will to sell only on Epic due to the revenue split, then that's fine, but bribing them is a whole other set of issues which is what Epic ended doing as it wasn't working as fast as they wanted when they tried to compete by revenue split.
it's also worth noting that other sellers offer steam keys as Steam offers a free API for them to use to sell Steam keys on their own store front.
Right now, I'm only mad because my system tray has too many icons in it, now.
Probably the only accurate thing in your entire statement.
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Re: Re: Re: I’m not laughing with you, I’m laughing at you
So if google pays you for some sort or service would that instantly incur your wrath, would you be accused of nefarious things?
I fail to see how Wikipedia is abusing anything, all they are doing it standing up for principles, and this is after there was exclusions put in place just for them in?
Do you have any evidence of Wikipedia's wrong doings in this? that they are abusing some monopoly?
For them to be a monopoly you would have to have no choice in alternative, but as far as I can tell, with a simple search that took me 20 seconds I found:
Columbia Encyclopedia
Digital Universe
Encarta
Encyclopædia Britannica
Everipedia
Everything2
Interpedia
And my personal favourite, Uncyclopedia
Now I've not checked the validity of any of these, but it wouldn't be hard to, there are plenty to choose from.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Fair use
They boy do I have some content to licence to YouTube now, I a sure I can come up with some drivel that I can licence to them, no one said it had to be good content that get's licenced hahaha
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Re: For any new readers: "morganwick" has ODD 6 year gap...
Can you work out my gaps please? I can't be bothered to trawl through my own posting history let alone others.
Don't forget the one where I got editor's pick of the week: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180129/07532839106/trumps-fcc-pats-itself-back-historicall y-stupid-year.shtml
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180211/10573239203/funniest-most-insightful- comments-week-techdirt.shtml
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Lose 1 million, or risk losing 100 million...
What wouldn't work?
The likes of Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Etc, Etc will have the financial, technical and legal clout to impose some sort of upload filter, not saying this will good, rather I implied it would be very bad as the filters would edge on the side of caution and reject loads of uploads, posts, Etc, Etc because they want to be extra careful they aren't infringing.
No doubt something will get through, and then the new laws would be put to the test to try and hold Google, Youtube, Facebook, Etall liable for the infringement, and that will be an interesting test
Small sites, won't have the resources to do this, and as such would just shut their doors rather than be held liable, thus entrenching the current big players.
The idea of where the servers are located doesn't fall in to this anywhere when it comes to the upload filters.
I will admit there is quite a bit of this new copyright law I don't understand, but I have tried to take the time to understand Article 11 and 13, and I work in the Managed Compute IT industry so have a fairly good understanding of Tech and don't mix it up with Magic like a lot of these politicians seem to all the time.
On the post: EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
Re: Re: When the site becomes liable for content I upload...
90% of the time, the sections giving over licence to the item or post is simple there to allow them to store said post/item/upload or whatever it may be, most of the time there is nothing nefarious behind it, it's just them trying to protect themselves from things like these laws.
On the post: EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
Re: Re: Lose 1 million, or risk losing 100 million...
What could and most will happen is all the big players will put in upload filters that will edge on the side of caution, small companies or hobbiests won't survive.
Worst case, certain uploads won't be permitted at all.
On the post: EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
Re: When the site becomes liable for content I upload...
If you publish your own works, at your own free will, then there is an implied licence in that you've uploaded it yourself, otherwise it would be a honeypot and I am sure there are laws against that.
Not EU based but I am sure that's one of the things that Prenda got caught up in when they uploaded the original file to create a honeypot to start there extortion business.
On the post: EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The EU is losing all legitimacy and credibil
The thing is the UK was never part of the schengen agreement, the UK is the only country within the EU to not be a part of it, the Northen Ireland aspect is oddity in that there is no border between Northen Ireland and IRE, but there is between Northen Ireland and the UK.
In the world of trading you must secure your borders for trade agreements to function effectively, you can not allow products to simply enter a country un-tracked or un-customed, failure to do so undermines the entire system, it's a basic requirement and is written in to pretty much every trade agreement with every country that there will be a customs border and items going in/out will be subjected to it.
Even WTO requires that a border be enforced and that is applied to all 120+ bodies of the WTO.
The EU is only doing what is best for the remaining 27 member states, should the shoe be on the other foot, and another country leaving, would you like to see that one country get special treatment, if undermine all previous trade agreement?
What is more worrying is that we currently have 1 trade agreement ready to go live which is worth £10 Billion and that's it, South Korea and Japan are asking for more concessions from the UK before they will even consider a deal, and other countrys are asking for the UK to lower their standards for a trade deal to be considered, such as some from the US are lobbying for the UK to lower standards to allow the sale of products that otherwise don't meet the EU food standards that we adopted, or some existing trade partners that we have agreements with via the EU that will be cut off post brexit are asking for human rights to be lowered: “Some countries have said that they didn’t like, for example, the human rights elements that were incorporated by the EU and they would like us to drop those in order to roll the agreements over,” , Why would they want human rights to be lowered?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Whats good for the goose is good for the parliam
Rough translation is: "What is right for you isn't right for me"
My latin is a bit rusty but that's the jist of it
On the post: EU Moves Forward With Agreement To Fundamentally Change The Internet From Open To Closed
Fair use
I have contacted all my local MEP's both for and against, asserting points as to why they should be rejecting Articles 11 & 13.
Hopefully they get enough pressure to get them to vote according to what is best for the general public and to stand by them, rather than standing with the few companies that are pushing for these laws.
I really hope that if these do go through, that companies go full nucular and just block all EU IP's and all news sites such as news.google.com just shut the doors to the EU, it would be interesting to see how long it takes before the EU changes course, all it would take is someone like Twitter, or Facebook to stop people comments or uploading, there would be hell by lunch time.
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Re: Re: prisoner food -- Welcome back "Bill" after 30 months!
I expect a dig in return for my low post count and not posting frequently, but what do I know, I only got on editors choice for funny comments of the week once hahaha.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sorry, but this is a month old news.
and even then it wouldn't be a tazer,
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Sorry, but this is a month old news.
"Further, why ACAB fits to most american coppers but not most of european coppers/bobbies is well beyond me..."
Because they earn the title more than they do? Because officers in those other places are trained to de-escalate situations non-violently, whereas the Americans can't wait to use their weapons on helpless people?
Completely agree, had this been in say the UK (And we don't exactly have the best police in the world) this would have been delt with soo much better, the police office wouldn't have even had a weapon drawn, would have approched, attempted to communicate verbally, had that failed they would have tried with hand gestures and approach in a calm and controlled way. they would have only resorted to defence had she attacked the officers, and even then it would be a tazer, they would have just subdued her with physical force (Note, not excessive)
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We’re going to laugh this one off over a couple of Superpowers.
But which superpower? I am confused?
On the post: AT&T Sued After SIM Hijacker Steals $24 Million in Customer's Cryptocurrency
Re:
He secured it correctly, AT&T's method of protecting his mobile account is the root cause of all this, what if someone managed to get access to your traditional bank due to your mobile account being compromised, would you just brush it off, blame the bank, or blame the mobile network providor for granting someone else access to your account for $100?
On the post: South Africa's Proposed Fair Use Right In Copyright Bill Is Surprisingly Good -- At The Moment
Never thought I'd see this in my lifetime
But I am soo happy to have seen this, I really hope this will be a wakeup call, this can be a good testbed to see how things progress when copyright's are fair and balanced.
Personally I feel copyrights should be for 10 years, and can be renewed twice for a maxamium of 30 years, should you pass on unexpectidly before the last renewal your heir should be able to renew your copyright 1 time, and these renewals are from the first owner, so if rights are sold the counter isn't reset, if you can't profit from something in 30 years then your doing something wrong.
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Re: Re:
*Maybe complete bullshit
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Re: This is incidental...
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