We're not talking North American-style rentals or condos. Under the leaseholder/freeholder system, you buy a long-term (centuries-long) lease.
Think of how a North American-style condo board may decide that major repairs or renovations are necessary, and pass the costs on to the owners. (Like glass-wall condos in Canada having to be reclad at $100,000 per unit, and a great many new condos in British Columbia that quickly needed roof replacements.)
But leaseholders in the UK, with no elected condo board, have no say. They have to pay up, or leave and lose their investment.
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Which is why companies tend not to mention it in their advertising and packaging.
There are products out there that make perfect sense to have control or monitoring on your phone, and sell that as a feature. You simply connect via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
It's only after you purchase and open it that your discover that it *doesn't* connect to your phone. It only connects to an overseas server, which gives you limited access from your phone in return for handing over even MORE data that the device itself doesn't collect.
So US telcos are threatened with the loss of government contracts if they do business with Huawei. Consumers are threatened with legal problems if they innocently buy goods on Amazon that originate in China.
Begun this trade war has.
(Clone war, in the case of the counterfeit goods.)
And if the blockchain is just tacked on to a file to identify the rights-holder, it would have little is any effect.
Any pirated movie still has the studio and other ownership information upfront in the opening and closing credits. No-one bothers to strip it out. No-one masks the artist and song names for music. The same would go for a blockchain which somehow states "Copyright 2018, Bob."
How would "blockchain-based DRM" stop "the infinitely copyable nature of digital content" anyway?
It seems like CSS or AACS, something the pirates would simply strip out. And for anything posted on YouTube, something the takedown bots would simply ignore while making false copyright claims.
For photos, it would seem trivially easy to strip out if you can see an image in your browser to begin with.
Re: Deliberately choosing to be a sharecropper is a bad move
The land you rely on isn't yours, and can be taken away from you at any moment without notice.
Hardware manufacturers will learn this too.
A couple months ago I bought a Ricoh spherical image camera. Firmware updates and a few other features require logging into the Ricoh site. But they don't do their own authentication; you must have a Facebook or Twitter account, and log in with that.
He's saying that repeating a defamatory lie can be illegal.
There was such a case here in Canada a few years back. The defendant lost, with the judge essentially telling him "It's not that you republished a lie. It's that the lie had debunked and you bloody well knew it before you republished."
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Think of how a North American-style condo board may decide that major repairs or renovations are necessary, and pass the costs on to the owners. (Like glass-wall condos in Canada having to be reclad at $100,000 per unit, and a great many new condos in British Columbia that quickly needed roof replacements.)
But leaseholders in the UK, with no elected condo board, have no say. They have to pay up, or leave and lose their investment.
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Re: Congratulations for finding another horrid anomaly -- by which the primacy of common decency and common law is proven.
I had the smell of curried cooking often coming in under my apartment door for a couple years.
It meant that I was hungry all the time, because the smell was wonderful.
Now there's a douchebro who alternates between pot and cigars.
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That's 33 thousand pounds per leaseholder.
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Techdirt, 48 hours ago: Media Freaks Out About Facebook Changes; Maybe They Shouldn't Have Become So Reliant On Facebook
In before "Telling others not to use a service because it's a trap and you can't trust them, is still somehow whitewashing their image."
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Re: Re: Re: Deliberately choosing to be a sharecropper is a bad move
There are products out there that make perfect sense to have control or monitoring on your phone, and sell that as a feature. You simply connect via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
It's only after you purchase and open it that your discover that it *doesn't* connect to your phone. It only connects to an overseas server, which gives you limited access from your phone in return for handing over even MORE data that the device itself doesn't collect.
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On The Other Hand...
Companies may declare that "accessing that data in a way the host (user) doesn't like doesn't violate computer crime laws."
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So US telcos are threatened with the loss of government contracts if they do business with Huawei. Consumers are threatened with legal problems if they innocently buy goods on Amazon that originate in China.
Begun this trade war has.
(Clone war, in the case of the counterfeit goods.)
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Not necessarily:
He may decide to pursue his white whale outside of the courts, whether through the standard bumptious legal demands for money or through other means.
If that happens, I'm wondering if "Richard Hill" would have grounds to sue those who unmasked him and exposed him to any such harassment.
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Remember that DC judge who sued a dry cleaning company for $65 million over a lost pair of trousers back in 2005? A case that was still going on over a decade later?
I'm beginning to suspect that he was seeing a psychiatrist after all.
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Re: Re: Remind me again how to support TechDirt...
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Any pirated movie still has the studio and other ownership information upfront in the opening and closing credits. No-one bothers to strip it out. No-one masks the artist and song names for music. The same would go for a blockchain which somehow states "Copyright 2018, Bob."
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I don't have time for a proper response. Please just mark this comment as abusive.
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It seems like CSS or AACS, something the pirates would simply strip out. And for anything posted on YouTube, something the takedown bots would simply ignore while making false copyright claims.
For photos, it would seem trivially easy to strip out if you can see an image in your browser to begin with.
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Re: Deliberately choosing to be a sharecropper is a bad move
Hardware manufacturers will learn this too.
A couple months ago I bought a Ricoh spherical image camera. Firmware updates and a few other features require logging into the Ricoh site. But they don't do their own authentication; you must have a Facebook or Twitter account, and log in with that.
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There was such a case here in Canada a few years back. The defendant lost, with the judge essentially telling him "It's not that you republished a lie. It's that the lie had debunked and you bloody well knew it before you republished."
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Hunter S. Thompson notably disagreed.
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The original 2010s Trump-related litigation will still be ongoing.
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