I'm fine with companies like Apple and John Deere saying "If you try to repair the device we sold you, it'll void the warranty", because they're using the leverage they themselves put on rather than leverage they put because they lobbied the government to prohibit repairs. Besides, I use ancient devices from Nintendo and Sega from people who voided their warranty, so I can't complain about the practice…
Fear of Right to repair legislation drove this decision plain and simple.
But of course. After all, it was Frederick Douglass who said:
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
It's just that I regard Apple as pig-headed and adamant in their ways of doing things that I didn't think that they would give an inch at all on the right-to-repair matter. I'm extremely pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong, though!
(BTW, I know the reason why laws like Florida's are made in order that websites be forced to accept people they don't want. I was asking the question rhetorically).
Don't the Nazis, grifters, and paranoiacs (but I repeat myself) who get banned from certain social media have their own social media, such as Gab and Parler? If so, why do we even need overbearing and oppressive laws like Florida's?
If you want to know why social media gets all the attention, all you have to do is watch Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I:
Count De Monet: Sire, I believe the peasants are revolting.
King Louis XVI: You said it, they stink on ice!
That is, they don't like the rabble having a voice; it's problematic to them ruling over them. This applies to the US as well, so don't think I'm playing favorites.
This is hideously SLAPPy and a waste of legal resources. "HEY FUCK FACE" is actually pretty appropriate for The North Face since they pulled this bullshit...
I just said the same thing in the comment above yours. Like I said there, I think we have to renegotiate the Berne Convention to make copyright "opt-in" again everywhere so we won't make everybody automatically a pirate, because that's what happens when copyright is automatic.
the lawyers for Atari sought to exclude me from testifying, which was (at the very least) amusing, as it claimed that I "cannot offer an opinion as to the difficulty of content moderation generally"
I howled with laughter as I read that. Isn't the impossibility of good content moderation at scale also called "Masnick's Impossibility Theorem"? Such silly lawyers.
Why was this historical footage licensed in the first place? Because all of this could have been a non-issue if Konami did what it should have done in the first place: use the footage and rely on fair use in order to do so.
There's a problem with that: Fair Use is a provision only within the jurisdiction of the United States, and other nations and jurisdictions don't have that, but they do have fair dealing. Rather than deal with a bunch of different safety valves in a bunch of different countries, it makes more sense (from Konami's perspective) to ask permission.
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Re: Collusion
Weren't you supposed to be flinged into the sun?
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Re: Re: Didn't see that one coming.
So Apple is pulling an Oracle? 😜
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Re: Re: Re:
I'm fine with companies like Apple and John Deere saying "If you try to repair the device we sold you, it'll void the warranty", because they're using the leverage they themselves put on rather than leverage they put because they lobbied the government to prohibit repairs. Besides, I use ancient devices from Nintendo and Sega from people who voided their warranty, so I can't complain about the practice…
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But of course. After all, it was Frederick Douglass who said:
Source
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Re: Re: Didn't see that one coming.
It's just that I regard Apple as pig-headed and adamant in their ways of doing things that I didn't think that they would give an inch at all on the right-to-repair matter. I'm extremely pleasantly surprised to be proven wrong, though!
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Didn't see that one coming.
What is this company, and what has it done with the real Apple, Inc. headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA?
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Re: On another note:
(BTW, I know the reason why laws like Florida's are made in order that websites be forced to accept people they don't want. I was asking the question rhetorically).
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On another note:
Don't the Nazis, grifters, and paranoiacs (but I repeat myself) who get banned from certain social media have their own social media, such as Gab and Parler? If so, why do we even need overbearing and oppressive laws like Florida's?
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Re: When you're too gutless to admit your support...
I guess I can now say that the current incarnation of the Supreme Court is to the right of Attila The Hun.
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Why Social Media gets all the attention
If you want to know why social media gets all the attention, all you have to do is watch Mel Brooks' History of the World: Part I:
That is, they don't like the rabble having a voice; it's problematic to them ruling over them. This applies to the US as well, so don't think I'm playing favorites.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This made me audibly laugh out loud
Actually, that was a bad link. Here's a link to a montage of Atari porn games.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: This made me audibly laugh out loud
Believe it or not, there were Atari porn games. [Note: you must be over 18 to access link]
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Re: This has entertainment potential all over it...
You're going to need a lot of kernels for this spectacle, though...
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Wow. Just Wow.
This is hideously SLAPPy and a waste of legal resources. "HEY FUCK FACE" is actually pretty appropriate for The North Face since they pulled this bullshit...
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Funny Shoutout.
I want to give a shout-out for "funny comment" to this comment
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I have 99 bugs but a feature ain't one.
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Re: Another option
Or 1926 this January!
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Re:
I just said the same thing in the comment above yours. Like I said there, I think we have to renegotiate the Berne Convention to make copyright "opt-in" again everywhere so we won't make everybody automatically a pirate, because that's what happens when copyright is automatic.
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This made me audibly laugh out loud
I howled with laughter as I read that. Isn't the impossibility of good content moderation at scale also called "Masnick's Impossibility Theorem"? Such silly lawyers.
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The problem with fair use…
There's a problem with that: Fair Use is a provision only within the jurisdiction of the United States, and other nations and jurisdictions don't have that, but they do have fair dealing. Rather than deal with a bunch of different safety valves in a bunch of different countries, it makes more sense (from Konami's perspective) to ask permission.
I think that may also be the problem. If © were "opt-in" instead of "opt-out" on a global scale, this would be less of an issue. That's why copyright reform should include renegotiating the Berne Convention if we're going to make copyright sane again.
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