Yes.
1) std::vector provides the feature in c++
2) you just push_back the data to the container
3) then you have magical iterators to access the data
4) and then you can pass the container to every place where the data is needed
5) and then your software can actually use the data for displaying it to the screen
6) then even this nice list is available for your consumption...
You don’t need “copy protection” if nobody is ever going to copy your product in the first place.
With copy-protection, I don't need to:
1) compete against my own work
2) watch my user base disappear when pirate version of the same
product becomes available in pirate sites
3) deal with the maintainance of users who didn't contribute anything to the bottom line
4) translate the product to languages that the pirates use
5) include large font files supporting chinese glyphs
6) make the product follow laws of arabic muslim countries, including harrassment of women
7) customize the product to different geographic areas, like time zones or city maps
8) setup 24h product support web sites/phone lines/facebook pages/chat rooms
See, there's huge amount of burden that the copy-protection technology saves.
Pirate sites can offer:
1) large content collections
2) always chosen from best products from the market
3) with zero or low price
4) before the original content is released to public
5) in channels where ordinary content creators are not allowed to access
6) delivered by criminals instead of respectable vendors
7) and did I mention that money doesn't need to be passed to the vendor at all
8) and license requirements do not need to be followed
9) and it's fun to track the location of piratebay when content owners ban/block their ip address
10) and avoiding police cars and RIAA's lawyer's emails/snail mail legal demands is supposedly fun activity too
11) and we definitely wouldn't be able to create this kind of content ourselves, so copying it is just all ok
12) oh, there's also requirement to use VPN to protect our own IP from evil content owners/corporations
13) and no, we never found any viruses or ransomware from pirate sites
14) etc.. the reasons to use pirate sites keep piling up...
So if pirates can always offer the better product why isn't there a better version of Meshpage?
My copy-protection actually works?
Either way, it's kinda telling that the pirates chose the exact same nintendo product than what nintendo was releasing to the public. I.e. if pirates can easily jump from one product to another in search of best user experience, why would they choose nintendo's products for their pirated warez? Shouldn't they just jump to another (better quality) product?
fans of these titles had a better product to give them what they wanted: the emulation sites Nintendo shut down
Pirates can always offer better product than what you can create yourself, since they can pick the best products from the market. Whoever creates his own content is always locked to one product only, and if it turns out to be poor quality, jumping to another product simply isn't possible.... Pirates not only are doing this illegally, but they can always produce better product than those who are actually paying proper price... I.e. the price of genuine product is always higher too.
So choosing genuine product, you get poor quality and higher price.
But that's what you pay for not having to become criminal.
Which is of course not possible, since you don't know what will be displayed before you type in a URL or follow a link.
You can always immediately stop reading the page whenever you encounter confidential information. It doesn't matter if you typed in the url or followed a link, but google analytics will be your proof that you stopped reading the page immediately after detecting wrongdoing.
since you managed to get a working website online I didn't realise you didn't know how web servers worked...
Legal position of other technology vendors is always difficult to guess. Some of their positions are downright stupid, i.e. even pirate sites have a legal position, even though it isn't very good one. But even if you aren't a pirate site, you can still filter out complete nonsense from your evaluation, like that web server authors would be able to change authorisation settings of the government entity.
The fun fact is that if your insane distortion of the facts was true, you could be held legally liable for viewing my comment here.
Yes. If you keep posting confidential information, or copyright infringements, then obviously anyone viewing your comments will be liable too. The law has concepts for direct infringer and secondary infringer and those need to be somehow linked to make a proper copyright case. And the whole bunch will be procecuted.
I always knew that exploring techdirt was dangerous activity given that the people there had stupid copyright position. Guess we've got the message to you too now. Now we're just waiting what you do to fix the situation.
you moving the goal-post once again as I predicted
Yes, when you write something stupid, I need to move goal posts to adjust to the changed reality. I simply cannot know beforehand how you want to go forward. So the goalposts are moving to the direction that YOU take it.
No, but you can assume that when that page is not behind any kind of login screen and the served to you on a publicly available URL that you're authorised to see it.
This kind of assumption leads to very illegal place.
They do when they include them in the HTML sent as part of a request on a public site. They shouldn't be doing that of course, but they did.
Well, you as a web page reader need to filter out confidential information. Any documents where there's clear signs of "confidential" or "company confidential" or something like that, and you need to stop reading the material immediately, even if it was publicly posted to the dark web website.
Basically the whole idea that web servers are offering authorisation to all users is completely bogus stuff and whoever tries that are completely outside legal boundaries. I would call it fake authorisation attempt and belongs to the same category as spam emails or nigerian scams.
Which authorisation is required before people click on your links and laugh at your shoddy website?
my website with 3d models is slightly different than government's web site handling SSN's... I do not require any special kind of authorisation to access the data I created. But you cannot assume authorisation simply because some protocol uses 200 OK rest message.
Again, the data was sent as a response to a request on a public website with no protection. It was authorised.
This doesn't mean that its authorised. Some web protocol cannot mess with the legal paperwork. You actually need to sign contract or something before you are properly authorised. If some 3rd party web module decides to send the data to anyone in the world does not mean that your authorisation paperwork is in order.
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Yes.
1) std::vector provides the feature in c++
2) you just push_back the data to the container
3) then you have magical iterators to access the data
4) and then you can pass the container to every place where the data is needed
5) and then your software can actually use the data for displaying it to the screen
6) then even this nice list is available for your consumption...
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This statistics only show what happened this week...
Obviously I have total of 2189 views and 413 downloads, but the trend is downward for older products. $6 is the total revenue.
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This statistics from itch.io shows strong demand for my product:
https://tpgames.org/itch_statistics.png
Someone actually viewed the page every day, and then finally downloaded it.
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With copy-protection, I don't need to:
1) compete against my own work
2) watch my user base disappear when pirate version of the same
product becomes available in pirate sites
3) deal with the maintainance of users who didn't contribute anything to the bottom line
4) translate the product to languages that the pirates use
5) include large font files supporting chinese glyphs
6) make the product follow laws of arabic muslim countries, including harrassment of women
7) customize the product to different geographic areas, like time zones or city maps
8) setup 24h product support web sites/phone lines/facebook pages/chat rooms
See, there's huge amount of burden that the copy-protection technology saves.
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It isn't the "law" that is stopping Nintendo to do this properly.
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That's part of the copy protection.
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Pirate sites can offer:
1) large content collections
2) always chosen from best products from the market
3) with zero or low price
4) before the original content is released to public
5) in channels where ordinary content creators are not allowed to access
6) delivered by criminals instead of respectable vendors
7) and did I mention that money doesn't need to be passed to the vendor at all
8) and license requirements do not need to be followed
9) and it's fun to track the location of piratebay when content owners ban/block their ip address
10) and avoiding police cars and RIAA's lawyer's emails/snail mail legal demands is supposedly fun activity too
11) and we definitely wouldn't be able to create this kind of content ourselves, so copying it is just all ok
12) oh, there's also requirement to use VPN to protect our own IP from evil content owners/corporations
13) and no, we never found any viruses or ransomware from pirate sites
14) etc.. the reasons to use pirate sites keep piling up...
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My copy-protection actually works?
Either way, it's kinda telling that the pirates chose the exact same nintendo product than what nintendo was releasing to the public. I.e. if pirates can easily jump from one product to another in search of best user experience, why would they choose nintendo's products for their pirated warez? Shouldn't they just jump to another (better quality) product?
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You just check for keywords like "confidential" or "company confidential"...
Then you can look for signs of social security numbers for example. Or if it contains unpublished company secrets?
Humans have no problems detecting such things.
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Pirates can always offer better product than what you can create yourself, since they can pick the best products from the market. Whoever creates his own content is always locked to one product only, and if it turns out to be poor quality, jumping to another product simply isn't possible.... Pirates not only are doing this illegally, but they can always produce better product than those who are actually paying proper price... I.e. the price of genuine product is always higher too.
So choosing genuine product, you get poor quality and higher price.
But that's what you pay for not having to become criminal.
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Still I'm not requiring moon to be different for every observer.
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You can always immediately stop reading the page whenever you encounter confidential information. It doesn't matter if you typed in the url or followed a link, but google analytics will be your proof that you stopped reading the page immediately after detecting wrongdoing.
Legal position of other technology vendors is always difficult to guess. Some of their positions are downright stupid, i.e. even pirate sites have a legal position, even though it isn't very good one. But even if you aren't a pirate site, you can still filter out complete nonsense from your evaluation, like that web server authors would be able to change authorisation settings of the government entity.
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Yes. If you keep posting confidential information, or copyright infringements, then obviously anyone viewing your comments will be liable too. The law has concepts for direct infringer and secondary infringer and those need to be somehow linked to make a proper copyright case. And the whole bunch will be procecuted.
I always knew that exploring techdirt was dangerous activity given that the people there had stupid copyright position. Guess we've got the message to you too now. Now we're just waiting what you do to fix the situation.
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You're the one who claimed that html pages cannot be outside of the law's boundaries... just found example which proves your statement was invalid.
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Yes, when you write something stupid, I need to move goal posts to adjust to the changed reality. I simply cannot know beforehand how you want to go forward. So the goalposts are moving to the direction that YOU take it.
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check piratebay, i'm sure there exist legal paperwork that declares piratebay illegal even though its just offering html pages...
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This kind of assumption leads to very illegal place.
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Well, you as a web page reader need to filter out confidential information. Any documents where there's clear signs of "confidential" or "company confidential" or something like that, and you need to stop reading the material immediately, even if it was publicly posted to the dark web website.
Basically the whole idea that web servers are offering authorisation to all users is completely bogus stuff and whoever tries that are completely outside legal boundaries. I would call it fake authorisation attempt and belongs to the same category as spam emails or nigerian scams.
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my website with 3d models is slightly different than government's web site handling SSN's... I do not require any special kind of authorisation to access the data I created. But you cannot assume authorisation simply because some protocol uses 200 OK rest message.
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This doesn't mean that its authorised. Some web protocol cannot mess with the legal paperwork. You actually need to sign contract or something before you are properly authorised. If some 3rd party web module decides to send the data to anyone in the world does not mean that your authorisation paperwork is in order.
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