This request is different, however, as it seeks every Complaint Register file created since 1967 – approximately 175,000 files, each of which contain dozens to hundreds of pages… Complying with this request would present numerous challenges, including millions of dollars in costs and expended public resources.
Or cost the average person $30 for a USB stick and no more than 5 minutes copying files. Seriously, every level of government likes to pretend that FOIA docs are such a huge pain to handle, but all the money they get from the government each year, together with what the charge the receiver, more than covers costs... except all the lawyers they wind up blowing money on fighting each case in the courts. Cap their ability to fight FOIA cases in court to a set amount and it'd be much cheaper for everyone.
Charter-Spectrum already does this. They're also proof against this new law because they don't charge extra for equipment, they give you "free" equipment at no extra charge... although everybody pays more.
Re: Re: Re: Proof that Techdirt is NOT anti-copyright
ONLY if they took the optional extension, which they almost certainly wouldn't have on most of the games. Mario, Zelda... yes. Cooking Mama or the like? No.
I'd argue they aren't following the spirit of the law. The law originally only allowed 28 years (after the optional extension). Companies (one in particular) bought extensions until the law is now a parody of what was originally intended. Claiming to follow the "spirit" of an obscene law is still obscene.
Extended - lawyers want to buy an AI and then sit back while it generates patent after patent after patent, and then collect the rent while producing nothing. Why pay engineers/scientists an actual salary to (slowly) come up with patents when an AI can churn them out 24/7 without pay?
But why? AI doesn't need the monopoly control as incentive to create an invention. That's not what motivates the AI. What's wrong with just letting the AI come up with those cures for cancer and workable solutions for reversing climate change and just giving them to the world to make the world a better place?
Because that doesn't make corporations and their execs filthy stinking rich off the backs of other people who do the actual work. You're requiring THEM to do the work instead.
Because the real reason is that most/all the programmers are white men, so they code for themselves, not even considering that there are other people in the world. It would be easy enough to add automatic contrast and brightness control, but you have to realize it's needed first.
Being in Austria and knowing all the laws there and in Germany over Nazi symbols, you'd have thought they would have taken the ten seconds needed to edit the picture in Photoshop/GIMP/any other graphics editing app to remove anything offensive. Even if it was the only picture they had, that doesn't mean you can't make minor edits to prevent people from thinking you're a bunch of Nazi sympathizers.
That Android phone still works, it's just not as secure anymore. In this case, people's equipment will no longer work simply because the company quit supporting it.
Isn't this just typical of cable companies... they raised my internet bill another dollar per month last month. We always say they "nickel and dime" their customers, but given inflation, maybe we should start saying they "Washington and Lincoln" their customers instead.
You haven't been paying attention over the last five to ten years, have you? Canada has been worse for copyright and other IP laws now for years. They elected some idiots and flipped from someone to admire into someone to hold up as an example of "at least we're not them".
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Expense
Or cost the average person $30 for a USB stick and no more than 5 minutes copying files. Seriously, every level of government likes to pretend that FOIA docs are such a huge pain to handle, but all the money they get from the government each year, together with what the charge the receiver, more than covers costs... except all the lawyers they wind up blowing money on fighting each case in the courts. Cap their ability to fight FOIA cases in court to a set amount and it'd be much cheaper for everyone.
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Re:
No, but the police can requisition one from the hospital.
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Re: Re:
In a perfect world, unions wouldn't be needed.
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Well duh!
It's like having your teeth capped, right? ;)
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Correction
It's "wash, rinse, repeat".
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Re:
Charter-Spectrum already does this. They're also proof against this new law because they don't charge extra for equipment, they give you "free" equipment at no extra charge... although everybody pays more.
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Re: Re: Re: Proof that Techdirt is NOT anti-copyright
ONLY if they took the optional extension, which they almost certainly wouldn't have on most of the games. Mario, Zelda... yes. Cooking Mama or the like? No.
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He may be right
Considering he feels it's only for the government or the rich, he's absolutely correct. ;)
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Re: Proof that Techdirt is NOT anti-copyright
I'd argue they aren't following the spirit of the law. The law originally only allowed 28 years (after the optional extension). Companies (one in particular) bought extensions until the law is now a parody of what was originally intended. Claiming to follow the "spirit" of an obscene law is still obscene.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
FFMPEG can both encode and decode APNG (since 2015). So converting APNG to MP4 is trivial.
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So fix the bug. Banning APNG rather than fixing a known bug is stupid.
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Re: Because
Extended - lawyers want to buy an AI and then sit back while it generates patent after patent after patent, and then collect the rent while producing nothing. Why pay engineers/scientists an actual salary to (slowly) come up with patents when an AI can churn them out 24/7 without pay?
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Because
Because that doesn't make corporations and their execs filthy stinking rich off the backs of other people who do the actual work. You're requiring THEM to do the work instead.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Fb tag recommended
Because the real reason is that most/all the programmers are white men, so they code for themselves, not even considering that there are other people in the world. It would be easy enough to add automatic contrast and brightness control, but you have to realize it's needed first.
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Re: Re: Not what they do
Some say eating live babies is a God-given right. Others say it's a horrific abomination. As always, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
;)
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Re: Re: Well that was awkward
Being in Austria and knowing all the laws there and in Germany over Nazi symbols, you'd have thought they would have taken the ten seconds needed to edit the picture in Photoshop/GIMP/any other graphics editing app to remove anything offensive. Even if it was the only picture they had, that doesn't mean you can't make minor edits to prevent people from thinking you're a bunch of Nazi sympathizers.
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Re: Re: others
That Android phone still works, it's just not as secure anymore. In this case, people's equipment will no longer work simply because the company quit supporting it.
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Re:
That's a sucker bet if I ever saw one.
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Typical
Isn't this just typical of cable companies... they raised my internet bill another dollar per month last month. We always say they "nickel and dime" their customers, but given inflation, maybe we should start saying they "Washington and Lincoln" their customers instead.
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Re: Solution
You haven't been paying attention over the last five to ten years, have you? Canada has been worse for copyright and other IP laws now for years. They elected some idiots and flipped from someone to admire into someone to hold up as an example of "at least we're not them".
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