That Anonymous Coward (profile), 14 Nov 2021 @ 8:12pm
Re: Re: Re: Re: This made me audibly laugh out loud
Its the fear that common sense might finally get a seat at the table.
Lawyers, clients, talking head, Congress often scream how easy it would be if they just tried harder... but not a single one of them can offer up anything beyond 'we think it should be easy so for you to claim otherwise is you knowingly profiting!'.
Content ID is the best poster child for this.
It sucks on ice.
Yes it can detect things, but the accuracy is shitty.
Silence on your video, yanked for "stealing" the 3 min musical thing.
Something put into the public domain that they put on a news program, suddenly they get to own it forever.
A fscking wild birdsong, its our rock music we checked twice!
It plays within the law which is heavily weighted in favor of anyone who claims they own the content, its constantly gamed, & when they are wrong... oh well. Where if the system was weighted more towards users, there would be billions of damages on the table in seconds.
Content moderation is a shitshow.
The lawyers claiming Mike knows nothing about this lied to the court. (period, full stop, move for sanctions level of lying)
There is so much covered by copyright currently that it would take the entire planet to have enough people to review everything, then a huge team of lawyers to consider if it is fair use, then protracted bullshit legal cases where to exercise your rights costs the GDP of some small nations... oh and you don't get paid back by the person who was wrong, but if you were wrong we win the GDP of midsized nations.... because you didn't add enough cat emojis to transform the image... but 3 more you;d have been okay.
Content ID has a database of content its supposed to "protect", where is the easy to scan & match database of trademarks?
Or do they think its possible for a human to navigate the state of the art (in the 1940's) trademark database against every image submitted to be put on a cup/bottle/shirt/tote/etc?
Its sort of sad that with copyright being so super important & valuable for some reason the burden and cost always fall to everyone else to protect them & yet they demand we give them more when they've done nothing.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 13 Nov 2021 @ 6:12pm
Re: Re: This made me audibly laugh out loud
It depends on your circles in the world, but to claim he "cannot offer an opinion as to the difficulty of content moderation generally" when its been a fscking featured post here more than a couple times is ludicrous.
Perhaps they did research on some other Mike Masnick & got confused.
We're sorry TAC can't give testimony about copyright trolls tactic, he's not qualified. o_O
Something something haven't sucked enough dicks to rate if its a pretty penis or not? Exactly what is the required number to be an expert in this way?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 8:54pm
It is a pity that we can't get a law.
Imagine if they had to display what DRM was in every game on the outside of the box.
People could then see easily which bullshit they will have to put up with (we registered a domain we forgot to keep going that all of our protected games use).
Pretty sure it would crash sales and finally make a point to companies... if you DRM it we won't buy.
There has not been a single fscking story of DRM making a game better for paying customers, but many talking about how stupid this shit is & makes the problem worse because 'pirates' get better gaming experiences. (Not to mention sometimes the 'pirated' copies run better).
I get people want to play the new games, but perhaps its time to stop playing the battered wife in the exchange. They say sorry, promise it will get better, and then fsck you over again & again.
Games that don't work from day 1.
Games that might work as advertised in 6 months.
Games that might stop working because we didn't pay for a domain.
All to stop pirates... who have working games to play without all of these hassles... only at the expense of paying customers being satisfied. Seems simple yet somehow they refuse to remember that consumers are the customers & you should put more into pleasing them then screwing them over.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 8:15pm
"The user(s) may appear anonymously for the purpose of submitting such evidence."
This phrase makes me so fscking happy.
Far to often we've seen people sued in copyright cases where they have to out themselves before they can object to even the most basic ideas (like an IP is not an identifier of a person, no your DC court has no jurisdiction here in Utah, the list goes on and on and on...).
What happens when a "Master of the Universe" finds out someone is talking shit about him??
If you thought it was going to be suck it up and move on... I have this bridge in San Fransisco to sell you.
For literally what is pocket change to Hedge Bro, you can put the fear of god into that poor person who thought they could talk smack about you.
Imagine this is a Nune's case run by someone with an actual brain instead of Biss.
Find the source of the cow's image, purchase the rights, claim copyright, get cows name via a copyright lawsuit for some LLC no ones every heard of over 'stealing' the cow image from them.
Oh look the names out in the open now.
Most people existing as a pseudonym have this as a large fear, exposure of them opens up trying to attack the messenger instead of the message, not to mention the misfortunes of the pissy party no knowing who to blame & what they can bring to bear to make your life horrible.
My brains making connections to things again (TAC and the curse of prophecy) what if this is a new venture into reputation management via copyright?
They know that copying articles postdating them and demanding they be delisted doesn't work or stop the writer.
But buy the rights to an image for a small payment, copyright claim, demand the id of the poster for a copyright claim... yeah no one stops those things yet.
Copyright is sacred & we can't have people willy nilly putting pictures on tweets costing us billions, that the tweets just happen to put our PR client in a bad light, and now we know your name little man... still want to play with the big boys?
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 7:53pm
Re: Re: Re:
Some with a lot of money wants to find a way to punish someone, you offer a photographer who makes her living taking candid family photos 5 figures for the rights you do that.
UMPG was well aware of how cutting any tiny corner in a copyright case can sink them & a paying off an photographer more than she might earn in a year for a few photos of no value to anyone but the subject or this nice lawyer man...
Also someone needs to check the standard release the photographer uses, if she didn't maintain all rights to the images...
I mean work for hire is work for hire... Thanks Marvel.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 11 Nov 2021 @ 7:41pm
"I have also pushed back on unqualified nominees and hacks."
Exactly how many nominees of Trump did he push back against again?
Positions filled by Trump faithful with no experience in the areas they were tasked with overseeing, unqualified hacks who used their positions to line their own pockets on our dime.
But yes Ms. Lindsey do go on clutching your pearls, also I'm still waiting for you to call Jan. 6th what it really was & stop suckling on Trumps ass.
If only you had been more discrete maybe Trump wouldn't have those photos, videos, calls that he used to make you his bitch.
I mean you might like to play that in the bedroom but its a bad look in Congress you spineless hack.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Nov 2021 @ 10:35pm
Re: Pirates, as always, were completely unaffected
But then they can show how many pirates there are & demand more laws allowing them to have you executes via jewish space laser & then piracy will end.
Who cares if we're fscking over the suckers who paid us, we need to waste more money chasing all the money we are losing as our stupid drm decisions give rise to more people unwilling keep paying to be treated like crap.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Nov 2021 @ 7:50pm
Re: The personal touch of great customer service.
Because they haven't made any money in 300 years according to the accounting records they submit to pay next to nothing in taxes.
Oh and they flat out own enough congress critters to get their way.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Nov 2021 @ 7:40pm
I know it can't/won't/shouldn't happen but I'd love to see the Gov sued for this fiasco.
They should have known better than to put SS numbers on anything publicly accessible.
They should have had audits, this shits been going on for years.
They had no idea what the journalists had accessed, which means they have no idea what some curious "hacker" managed to find in the years they thought SS "hiden" in the html was a great idea.
He lied about this being a hack & tried to blame the reporters who did everything in a responsible way. The fact the case is still open raises questions about the mental competency of those investigating and pondering if to charge or not.
"we find out that the records of 620,000 teachers and administrators were exposed, including past employees."
620,000 people got screwed by these assholes & will end up having to deal with any fallout of the complete failure of the state to do even the most basic security things.
On a side thought, how many more millions of SS numbers getting leaked will finally force the government to block using SS numbers for getting credit? (Remembers that this is the same government who made medicare id's peoples SS numbers despite there being widespread fraud that they expected people in their 80s to discover & report to them).
Imagine if the law held the victims of id theft as actual victims & put the cleanup of the wreckage on the lender & the credit agency. I imagine that securing their networks might take priority after the first couple million they end up on the hook for. Citizens can do everything right, but are always left to clean up the mess made by others who thought rot13 was uncrackable.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Nov 2021 @ 7:26pm
Re: Why not the FCC?
In Soviet Russia all your bands are belong to us.
They can't actually locate the boxes (it looks like they didn't bother trying at all) they are mobile, clandestine, and well diplomatic stuff...
DHS is much more concerned that if a nursing mother brings .05 oz to much breast milk on a plane she could be part of a terror cell where various nursing mothers have been drinking various chemicals that could then be combined in the lav to make a nuclear bomb.
Who needs to compromise Solar Winds to get data when you can just tap the burner phones Congress uses to get paid by corporate sponsors & gather enough to own them. No one can deny Congress is bought & paid for by corporations, knowing when they call the escort for playtime really lowers the cost of ownership.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 10 Nov 2021 @ 7:19pm
Imagine living in a country where we had the CBO report on what proposed laws would cost & an office that glaringly highlighted bullshit as bullshit.
I know they can't be an expert on everything, but my fucking god, these laws suggest they have an iq of 50 or the truth no one wants to admit... their corporate sponsors matter more than we do.
Its really sad that our nation makes immigrants pass a test about the nation and a vast majority of congress couldn't pass the same test.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Nov 2021 @ 11:57pm
If only more citizens cared about real things instead of owning the other side they might wonder how the net worth of these elected officials climbs so high so quickly when we pay them so poorly.
But they care more about making sure a woman can't have an abortion than if the next meal they eat might kill them.
That Anonymous Coward (profile), 9 Nov 2021 @ 2:22am
Has anyone confirmed he is actually a man?
Not just 3 weasels & a pigeon in a trenchcoat?
He doesn't seem to have a spine, just coo's out random phrases, runs behind others trying to pick up their crumbs...
On the post: Jury Correctly Recognizes That Print-On-Demand Website Isn't A 'Counterfeiting' Business Engaged In Infringement
Re: Re: Re: Re: This made me audibly laugh out loud
Its the fear that common sense might finally get a seat at the table.
Lawyers, clients, talking head, Congress often scream how easy it would be if they just tried harder... but not a single one of them can offer up anything beyond 'we think it should be easy so for you to claim otherwise is you knowingly profiting!'.
Content ID is the best poster child for this.
It sucks on ice.
Yes it can detect things, but the accuracy is shitty.
Silence on your video, yanked for "stealing" the 3 min musical thing.
Something put into the public domain that they put on a news program, suddenly they get to own it forever.
A fscking wild birdsong, its our rock music we checked twice!
It plays within the law which is heavily weighted in favor of anyone who claims they own the content, its constantly gamed, & when they are wrong... oh well. Where if the system was weighted more towards users, there would be billions of damages on the table in seconds.
Content moderation is a shitshow.
The lawyers claiming Mike knows nothing about this lied to the court. (period, full stop, move for sanctions level of lying)
There is so much covered by copyright currently that it would take the entire planet to have enough people to review everything, then a huge team of lawyers to consider if it is fair use, then protracted bullshit legal cases where to exercise your rights costs the GDP of some small nations... oh and you don't get paid back by the person who was wrong, but if you were wrong we win the GDP of midsized nations.... because you didn't add enough cat emojis to transform the image... but 3 more you;d have been okay.
Content ID has a database of content its supposed to "protect", where is the easy to scan & match database of trademarks?
Or do they think its possible for a human to navigate the state of the art (in the 1940's) trademark database against every image submitted to be put on a cup/bottle/shirt/tote/etc?
Its sort of sad that with copyright being so super important & valuable for some reason the burden and cost always fall to everyone else to protect them & yet they demand we give them more when they've done nothing.
On the post: Jury Correctly Recognizes That Print-On-Demand Website Isn't A 'Counterfeiting' Business Engaged In Infringement
Re: Re: This made me audibly laugh out loud
It depends on your circles in the world, but to claim he "cannot offer an opinion as to the difficulty of content moderation generally" when its been a fscking featured post here more than a couple times is ludicrous.
Perhaps they did research on some other Mike Masnick & got confused.
We're sorry TAC can't give testimony about copyright trolls tactic, he's not qualified. o_O
Something something haven't sucked enough dicks to rate if its a pretty penis or not? Exactly what is the required number to be an expert in this way?
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It needs a bovine feel to its name.
On the post: Metal Gear Solid 2 And 3 Taken Off Digital Storefronts Over Licensing For Historical Videos
I often wonder if the lawyers skip getting rights to use things forever so they can come back later & get paid to renegotiate.
On the post: Rupert Murdoch Spreads False Claim Biden FCC Nom Wants To 'Censor Conservatives.' NewsMax & OAN Immediately Prove Him Wrong.
Re: Re:
I honestly just wish some reporter would have replied with how Ms. Lindsey voted for Trumps nominees.
On the post: DRM Breaking Games Again, This Time Due To New Intel Chip Architecture
It is a pity that we can't get a law.
Imagine if they had to display what DRM was in every game on the outside of the box.
People could then see easily which bullshit they will have to put up with (we registered a domain we forgot to keep going that all of our protected games use).
Pretty sure it would crash sales and finally make a point to companies... if you DRM it we won't buy.
There has not been a single fscking story of DRM making a game better for paying customers, but many talking about how stupid this shit is & makes the problem worse because 'pirates' get better gaming experiences. (Not to mention sometimes the 'pirated' copies run better).
I get people want to play the new games, but perhaps its time to stop playing the battered wife in the exchange. They say sorry, promise it will get better, and then fsck you over again & again.
Games that don't work from day 1.
Games that might work as advertised in 6 months.
Games that might stop working because we didn't pay for a domain.
All to stop pirates... who have working games to play without all of these hassles... only at the expense of paying customers being satisfied. Seems simple yet somehow they refuse to remember that consumers are the customers & you should put more into pleasing them then screwing them over.
On the post: The Curious Case Of Billionaire Brian Sheth, An Anonymous Tweeter, Copyright Law, Twitter, And Some Company That Barely Seems To Exist
"The user(s) may appear anonymously for the purpose of submitting such evidence."
This phrase makes me so fscking happy.
Far to often we've seen people sued in copyright cases where they have to out themselves before they can object to even the most basic ideas (like an IP is not an identifier of a person, no your DC court has no jurisdiction here in Utah, the list goes on and on and on...).
What happens when a "Master of the Universe" finds out someone is talking shit about him??
If you thought it was going to be suck it up and move on... I have this bridge in San Fransisco to sell you.
For literally what is pocket change to Hedge Bro, you can put the fear of god into that poor person who thought they could talk smack about you.
Imagine this is a Nune's case run by someone with an actual brain instead of Biss.
Find the source of the cow's image, purchase the rights, claim copyright, get cows name via a copyright lawsuit for some LLC no ones every heard of over 'stealing' the cow image from them.
Oh look the names out in the open now.
Most people existing as a pseudonym have this as a large fear, exposure of them opens up trying to attack the messenger instead of the message, not to mention the misfortunes of the pissy party no knowing who to blame & what they can bring to bear to make your life horrible.
My brains making connections to things again (TAC and the curse of prophecy) what if this is a new venture into reputation management via copyright?
They know that copying articles postdating them and demanding they be delisted doesn't work or stop the writer.
But buy the rights to an image for a small payment, copyright claim, demand the id of the poster for a copyright claim... yeah no one stops those things yet.
Copyright is sacred & we can't have people willy nilly putting pictures on tweets costing us billions, that the tweets just happen to put our PR client in a bad light, and now we know your name little man... still want to play with the big boys?
On the post: The Curious Case Of Billionaire Brian Sheth, An Anonymous Tweeter, Copyright Law, Twitter, And Some Company That Barely Seems To Exist
Re:
The other photos, as near as I was able to determine, were not of the same people.
One of them had, according to TinEye, only ever been seen once online... in the tweet. One does wonder how the image was located.
On the post: The Curious Case Of Billionaire Brian Sheth, An Anonymous Tweeter, Copyright Law, Twitter, And Some Company That Barely Seems To Exist
Re: Re: Re:
Some with a lot of money wants to find a way to punish someone, you offer a photographer who makes her living taking candid family photos 5 figures for the rights you do that.
UMPG was well aware of how cutting any tiny corner in a copyright case can sink them & a paying off an photographer more than she might earn in a year for a few photos of no value to anyone but the subject or this nice lawyer man...
Also someone needs to check the standard release the photographer uses, if she didn't maintain all rights to the images...
I mean work for hire is work for hire... Thanks Marvel.
On the post: Rupert Murdoch Spreads False Claim Biden FCC Nom Wants To 'Censor Conservatives.' NewsMax & OAN Immediately Prove Him Wrong.
"I have also pushed back on unqualified nominees and hacks."
Exactly how many nominees of Trump did he push back against again?
Positions filled by Trump faithful with no experience in the areas they were tasked with overseeing, unqualified hacks who used their positions to line their own pockets on our dime.
But yes Ms. Lindsey do go on clutching your pearls, also I'm still waiting for you to call Jan. 6th what it really was & stop suckling on Trumps ass.
If only you had been more discrete maybe Trump wouldn't have those photos, videos, calls that he used to make you his bitch.
I mean you might like to play that in the bedroom but its a bad look in Congress you spineless hack.
On the post: Denuvo Games Once Again Broken For Paying Customers Thanks To DRM Mishap
Re: Pirates, as always, were completely unaffected
But then they can show how many pirates there are & demand more laws allowing them to have you executes via jewish space laser & then piracy will end.
Who cares if we're fscking over the suckers who paid us, we need to waste more money chasing all the money we are losing as our stupid drm decisions give rise to more people unwilling keep paying to be treated like crap.
On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Electric Truck Company Uses Copyright Claims To Hide Criticism (2020)
Re: The personal touch of great customer service.
Because they haven't made any money in 300 years according to the accounting records they submit to pay next to nothing in taxes.
Oh and they flat out own enough congress critters to get their way.
On the post: Apple Faces Yet More 'Right To Repair' Backlash Over iPhone 13 Screen
something something page from nintendo...
treat your customer base like absolute shit & they will still buy the latest greatest version.
On the post: Missouri Admits It Fucked Up In Exposing Teacher Data, Offers Apology To Teachers -- But Not To Journalists It Falsely Accused Of Hacking
I know it can't/won't/shouldn't happen but I'd love to see the Gov sued for this fiasco.
They should have known better than to put SS numbers on anything publicly accessible.
They should have had audits, this shits been going on for years.
They had no idea what the journalists had accessed, which means they have no idea what some curious "hacker" managed to find in the years they thought SS "hiden" in the html was a great idea.
He lied about this being a hack & tried to blame the reporters who did everything in a responsible way. The fact the case is still open raises questions about the mental competency of those investigating and pondering if to charge or not.
"we find out that the records of 620,000 teachers and administrators were exposed, including past employees."
620,000 people got screwed by these assholes & will end up having to deal with any fallout of the complete failure of the state to do even the most basic security things.
On a side thought, how many more millions of SS numbers getting leaked will finally force the government to block using SS numbers for getting credit? (Remembers that this is the same government who made medicare id's peoples SS numbers despite there being widespread fraud that they expected people in their 80s to discover & report to them).
Imagine if the law held the victims of id theft as actual victims & put the cleanup of the wreckage on the lender & the credit agency. I imagine that securing their networks might take priority after the first couple million they end up on the hook for. Citizens can do everything right, but are always left to clean up the mess made by others who thought rot13 was uncrackable.
On the post: Seven Years After Discovering Rogue Stingray Devices In DC, The Federal Gov't Still Doesn't Have Any Idea What To Do About It
Re: Why not the FCC?
In Soviet Russia all your bands are belong to us.
They can't actually locate the boxes (it looks like they didn't bother trying at all) they are mobile, clandestine, and well diplomatic stuff...
DHS is much more concerned that if a nursing mother brings .05 oz to much breast milk on a plane she could be part of a terror cell where various nursing mothers have been drinking various chemicals that could then be combined in the lav to make a nuclear bomb.
Who needs to compromise Solar Winds to get data when you can just tap the burner phones Congress uses to get paid by corporate sponsors & gather enough to own them. No one can deny Congress is bought & paid for by corporations, knowing when they call the escort for playtime really lowers the cost of ownership.
On the post: The Latest Version Of Congress's Anti-Algorithm Bill Is Based On Two Separate Debunked Myths & A Misunderstanding Of How Things Work
Imagine living in a country where we had the CBO report on what proposed laws would cost & an office that glaringly highlighted bullshit as bullshit.
I know they can't be an expert on everything, but my fucking god, these laws suggest they have an iq of 50 or the truth no one wants to admit... their corporate sponsors matter more than we do.
Its really sad that our nation makes immigrants pass a test about the nation and a vast majority of congress couldn't pass the same test.
On the post: The Corruption Is In Congress: When Your New Bill Exempts The Biggest Employers In Your State, Perhaps There's A Problem
If only more citizens cared about real things instead of owning the other side they might wonder how the net worth of these elected officials climbs so high so quickly when we pay them so poorly.
But they care more about making sure a woman can't have an abortion than if the next meal they eat might kill them.
On the post: Students Have Rights: Court Dumps Evidence After Cops Rely On A Month-Old Anonymous Tip To Search A Minor
Out of an abundance of caution, we decided that you shouldn't have any rights.
'Merika where your rights exist only in your mind until a court decides otherwise.
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"we take abuse of that process very seriously"
Just like our privacy...
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Has anyone confirmed he is actually a man?
Not just 3 weasels & a pigeon in a trenchcoat?
He doesn't seem to have a spine, just coo's out random phrases, runs behind others trying to pick up their crumbs...
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