"It has to do with who actually creates the trailer."
So, one person creating a trailer magically results in more money, but someone else using the same footage magically loses money? Yeah, that's as stupid as I thought your take would be.
Meanwhile, in the real world, sometimes people decide to pay for a movie because they saw a review with footage in it from the film, directly because there's sound and visuals in the footage used that's impossible to convey using the written word.
That's what's funny about your twisted version of what copyright supposedly is or should be - if the real world committed to your fantasies, a lot of people would lose a lot of money - and, no, that doesn't mean that people will suddenly pay you instead.
"As long as VHS copies were available, VHS copies sold.
That’s also a fact"
Yes, they sold... at rapidly diminishing numbers until the point where it was no longer viable for the majority of distributors to even offer them as an option.
"So I argue that it wasn’t the consumer that made the decision but the distribution."
And I'd argue that, yet again, you're full of it. Consumer demand informed the distribution, not the other way around. If VHS has remained the top selling format, it would not have been replaced by DVD. Instead, sales plummeted. There are many reasons for this as I've already mentioned, but DVD was a very quick success for very obvious reasons that you're determined to ignore because you have a love for some very niche formats.
I'm afraid that you still have to accept reality - though VHS had some qualities and there were interesting upgrades in later iterations of the format, the mass market wasn't interested, virtually nothing was released on the later formats in the mainstream, and most people were very happy upgrading their collections from VHS or laserdisc to DVD and later Blu-Ray, and other formats failed in the marketplace.
There's nothing wrong with holding a candle for long forgotten media formats, but the fact is that VHS naturally fell to a competitor, just as Beta fell to VHS in the previous generation and DVD is now increasingly falling to digital formats (although the long tail seems to be much longer there).
Almost certainly nothing. They probably opened it, took one look at the horrific interface, closed it and deleted it. Nobody's going to tell you about that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of those downloads are people reading your whining here, and you are being told why nobody's using it by those same people.
Also, your own incompetence is probably losing you some contact. I believe it's been years since you threw a tantrum and blocked off you GitHub project from people who dared to try and inject some sanity into Meshpage. Yet, you still have that dead link listed as a main contact option. That's a red flag to anyone trying to contact you, and the fact that you have your phone number listed, but not a Slack, Discord, social media or other modern communication method is another red flag.
"This copyright exception does not exist in finland (and probably also in EU)."
Oh, so now you cite Finnish law? You seem to have no problem pretending that US law covered every country when it suited you earlier.
But, since you insist on exposing the fact that you make this shit up in your head rather than consult any valid factual resource... Finland has been part of the WIPO Copyright Treaty since 2010, which was also ratified and adopted by the EU.
There certainly are difference s in the way it's implemented in difference countries, but some exceptions related to fair use and fair dealing certainly do exist, albeit not in the same way that it's defined in US law.
I'll leave it up to the person who just announced that he's ignorant of EU copyright law while simultaneously demanding people follow a version of copyright that doesn't exist anywhere to do the rest of the research as to the specifics. You could learn something, though I somehow doubt it.
"we actually write text descriptions of the critique in magazines and newspapers"
Presumably why Finland isn't exactly known as a hotbed of internationally renowned film criticism.
"you definitely does not need to build your critique youtube video solely from movie clips"
No, which is why critics use them as illustrations as to what they're talking about. In, strangely enough, the exact same manner in which movie studios compile trailers from movie clips in order to promote the movie via trailers.
I'll leave it to someone saner than to explain to me why a 3 minute trailer is meant to entice people into paying for a movie, while a 3 minute positive review that utilises clips in a similar way should be illegal due to lost income, because I know up front that your explanation will be worthless to the real world.
"a mountain of corpses composed of 700k-800k needlessly dead americans"
The known current body count as of today is 960,157, which represents the vastly disproportionate rate of 16% of total COVID deaths (with the US having just 3% of the total world population).
That comes with caveats, of course. On the one hand I very much doubt that certain states such as Florida are accurately reporting information, and we also can't really trust figures from places like China, India and Brazil. On the other, only counting pure COVID deaths doesn't capture the other problems caused by it, such as people who die of non-COVID conditions that could have been treated earlier if hospitals weren't overrun.
So, the true death toll is likely much higher and a large part of the reason why it's so disproportionate is because of people like Rogan who either lie directly or give a power and an audience to people who do.
"Tolerance is not a universal moral imperative; It's a peace treaty."
Karl Popper's Paradox Of Tolerance - sometimes to protect a tolerant society, you have to be intolerant of those who are intolerant, because by tolerating them you eventually destroy what is worth tolerating.
"I had to look this one up..... sigh Yeah, I'd expect that from reddit...."
Yes, dark humour but aimed at exposing the numbers of people who claim that COVID is fake then die from it.
"This is what Young was trying to do: Force Spotify to silence Rogan to keep his fans and their ad revenue, at the cost of Rogan's fans and ad revenue."
No, he knew he'd not have a meaningful effect on Spotify directly and he doesn't have the leverage to convince them to remove Rogan just because he said so. The actual aim was to get people to talk about Rogan's misinformation and allow people who were otherwise unaware of the massive problems that Rogan is causing to not do business with such an unethical supplier.
This is not censorship, it's the free market at work. Why do you hate the free market?
They don't even have to be factual, just that the person doing the interview challenges the points being brought up. Rather than presenting people with no real authority as experts on the subject, and letting them spout whatever misinformation they want unquestioned and allowing clear falsehoods to be presented as being on the same level from actual CDC and other experts' positions.
The problem with Rogan isn't just the bad information he platforms, it's that he allows nutters to launder any stupid theory they have as if they had credibility, safe in the knowledge they'll never get any meaningful pushback.
I'm sure everyone had noticed if 56% of those people had died, given that it would mean around 120 million people, or over 1/3 of the US population had died within a year.
Since we've not seen that, we are clearly dealing with some extraordinarily stupid people who accept any conspiracy theory at face value despite it being obviously not true, and the rest of us would do well to inoculate society against those sources lest the anti-vaxxer infection continue to spread and kill even more people than they already have.
" but as previous articles have pointed out, these automated systems have a much, much larger false positive ratio than anyone wants to admit"
Citation? Maybe with references to how they're higher than the other solutions that are possible with the volume of data being processed. Or, are we arguing the toss because YouTube is only achueving 99.9999% accuracy rather then the preferred 99.999999%?
From where I'm sitting, there is a problem with automation. But, it's a problem with the automation of what's meant to be a legal claim under penalty of perjury, not the automation of YouTube dealing with the volume of legal demands it receives.
"Personally, I agree with the W.O.P.R., aka Joshua: the only winning move is not to play."
"Many of these comments from the Techdirt regulars did not age well"
OK. Which comments? How did they not age well (bearing in mind that basing opinions on facts that have since changed does not mean that the original take was wrong based on the data known at the time)? What specifically do you think was wrong?
"Irrational certainty, villainization and propaganda are far greater dangers than the exaggerated, misused and manipulative concept of "misinformation"."
Yes, so we do wish that you people would stop that while the rest of us are using actual information to try and bring this whole thing to an end. I appreciate that some people who have been fighting the hardest have ended up killing themselves by unnecessarily catching the disease they claim is fake, but the rest of us would prefer it if we can reach the end goal with less bodies.
Every "Fauci is evil and created the disease in a lab to collapse the global economy at the direction of the globalists" moron who dies as a result of their own action is good for the overall trend of fighting this, but you should really stop doing that.
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"Click the little more button and chose download and transfer via USB. Then chose my kindle and download that file. My kindle is incapable of any online verification."
Except, you literally just described the process by which the DRM check is made.
"If I want to use it on another kindle or my phone I have to download it again for the new device"
So, you perform another DRM check. You're really not making the argument you think you're making.
As ever, you're shifting the argument when proven wrong. We've gone from you claiming that "DVD didn’t ever really hurt VHS sales" (which is fundamentally, objectively, provably false), to claiming that because a tiny number of boutique labels occasionally do a run of VHS copies then that has to count for something. It does, but in nothing like the way you originally claimed.
"The fact that it’s not just one genre. We all can quickly find new horror on VHS. But there’s sci-fi, fantasy, action, even drama."
Cool. Now, what percentage of actual new releases have the VHS option?
"VHS (and SVHS) offers something not easily reproduced in digital production. Warm colours"
I'm not sure which VHS tapes you're watching, but the ones I see are 480p resolution with problems displaying colours on the red side of the spectrum (remember the old joke about NTSC meaning for "Never The Same Colour"?), although that will vary depending on whether you're using NTSC, PAL or SECAM..
Oh, and trying to lump it in with vinyl is pretty desperate. The reason why those arguments work with vinyl is that the sampling required for a digital recording can omit certain frequencies that are present in the analogue master, and since vinyl is also an analogue format then it can capture some sounds that sampling for CD or digital formats can remove. The correct comparison within movies would be a 35mm film print. With VHS, you're taking a movie that's typically shot in a much higher resolution (usually digitally nowadays), then transferring it to a format that loses a lot of the clarity of the original master.
Now, you may prefer the VHS version yourself, but there's no technical justification for what is almost guaranteed to be an objectively worse image on screen, unless you're getting a copy of an old movie shot on video or super 8. Plus, even if your subjective opinion is that you prefer the picture quality of the VHS, there's no way to pretend that it can ever match the sound quality, nor that you suddenly don't have all the other disadvantages that made the format be quickly replaced by DVD in most areas.
No, it's affecting things that are tied to the central console and the entertainment/GPS functions. From what I understand, the car is still functional, you just lose those extra features that people didn't have at all 30 years ago.
"If its only coming from the FM, why isnt the radio the only one affected?"
Because multiple services run on the same OS that's been affected.
"Who the fuck is depending on the file extension for anything here?!?!?"
I've worked for a number of companies where tight deadlines, overworked developers and management being willing to turn a blind eye to obvious problems to hit a profit level have led to some bad outcomes. All this really takes is developers not taking into account a use case they didn't think of, and an underfunded testing department (who are always considered the enemy but people trying to release a new revenue stream) not returning those tests or have their tests ignored in favour of gambling that they can make a lot of money before it's exposed.
I'd guess factual ones? No ones that are clear grifts to scam the uneducated and convince people to risk the lives of others because they're too weak to do things that eradicated previous pandemics?
"You just don't like his content and want it banned in hopes of forcing others into your "authoritative sources" and desired behaviors though lack of choice."
No, at best he wants to not support liars and propagandists financially, and wishes to inform others that the lies are leading to very negative consequences.
Which, despite the complaints from the knuckle draggers, is as much free speech as the lies.
"Just remember, Chickens come home to roost."
Yes, they do. But, some of us are tired of reading Herman Cain awards detailing how people sacrificed their lives on the altar of lies and would like the private enterprises who are funding them to not do so.
"Why is it disappointing that Spotify exercised its first amendment right to publish the content they choose to?"
You have a first amendment right to dress up like Hitler and wander around your local Jewish community quoting Mein Kampf. Being allowed to do something and that being a good thing to do are not there same thing.
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I'd argue with you but since I'm from the town that produces Marmite (the superior yeast extract), I'm happy to accept your opinion that the Australian version is inferior ;)
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"It has to do with who actually creates the trailer."
So, one person creating a trailer magically results in more money, but someone else using the same footage magically loses money? Yeah, that's as stupid as I thought your take would be.
Meanwhile, in the real world, sometimes people decide to pay for a movie because they saw a review with footage in it from the film, directly because there's sound and visuals in the footage used that's impossible to convey using the written word.
That's what's funny about your twisted version of what copyright supposedly is or should be - if the real world committed to your fantasies, a lot of people would lose a lot of money - and, no, that doesn't mean that people will suddenly pay you instead.
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"As long as VHS copies were available, VHS copies sold.
That’s also a fact"
Yes, they sold... at rapidly diminishing numbers until the point where it was no longer viable for the majority of distributors to even offer them as an option.
"So I argue that it wasn’t the consumer that made the decision but the distribution."
And I'd argue that, yet again, you're full of it. Consumer demand informed the distribution, not the other way around. If VHS has remained the top selling format, it would not have been replaced by DVD. Instead, sales plummeted. There are many reasons for this as I've already mentioned, but DVD was a very quick success for very obvious reasons that you're determined to ignore because you have a love for some very niche formats.
I'm afraid that you still have to accept reality - though VHS had some qualities and there were interesting upgrades in later iterations of the format, the mass market wasn't interested, virtually nothing was released on the later formats in the mainstream, and most people were very happy upgrading their collections from VHS or laserdisc to DVD and later Blu-Ray, and other formats failed in the marketplace.
There's nothing wrong with holding a candle for long forgotten media formats, but the fact is that VHS naturally fell to a competitor, just as Beta fell to VHS in the previous generation and DVD is now increasingly falling to digital formats (although the long tail seems to be much longer there).
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"So I dunno what they do with the tool."
Almost certainly nothing. They probably opened it, took one look at the horrific interface, closed it and deleted it. Nobody's going to tell you about that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if most of those downloads are people reading your whining here, and you are being told why nobody's using it by those same people.
Also, your own incompetence is probably losing you some contact. I believe it's been years since you threw a tantrum and blocked off you GitHub project from people who dared to try and inject some sanity into Meshpage. Yet, you still have that dead link listed as a main contact option. That's a red flag to anyone trying to contact you, and the fact that you have your phone number listed, but not a Slack, Discord, social media or other modern communication method is another red flag.
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"This copyright exception does not exist in finland (and probably also in EU)."
Oh, so now you cite Finnish law? You seem to have no problem pretending that US law covered every country when it suited you earlier.
But, since you insist on exposing the fact that you make this shit up in your head rather than consult any valid factual resource... Finland has been part of the WIPO Copyright Treaty since 2010, which was also ratified and adopted by the EU.
There certainly are difference s in the way it's implemented in difference countries, but some exceptions related to fair use and fair dealing certainly do exist, albeit not in the same way that it's defined in US law.
I'll leave it up to the person who just announced that he's ignorant of EU copyright law while simultaneously demanding people follow a version of copyright that doesn't exist anywhere to do the rest of the research as to the specifics. You could learn something, though I somehow doubt it.
"we actually write text descriptions of the critique in magazines and newspapers"
Presumably why Finland isn't exactly known as a hotbed of internationally renowned film criticism.
"you definitely does not need to build your critique youtube video solely from movie clips"
No, which is why critics use them as illustrations as to what they're talking about. In, strangely enough, the exact same manner in which movie studios compile trailers from movie clips in order to promote the movie via trailers.
I'll leave it to someone saner than to explain to me why a 3 minute trailer is meant to entice people into paying for a movie, while a 3 minute positive review that utilises clips in a similar way should be illegal due to lost income, because I know up front that your explanation will be worthless to the real world.
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"a mountain of corpses composed of 700k-800k needlessly dead americans"
The known current body count as of today is 960,157, which represents the vastly disproportionate rate of 16% of total COVID deaths (with the US having just 3% of the total world population).
That comes with caveats, of course. On the one hand I very much doubt that certain states such as Florida are accurately reporting information, and we also can't really trust figures from places like China, India and Brazil. On the other, only counting pure COVID deaths doesn't capture the other problems caused by it, such as people who die of non-COVID conditions that could have been treated earlier if hospitals weren't overrun.
So, the true death toll is likely much higher and a large part of the reason why it's so disproportionate is because of people like Rogan who either lie directly or give a power and an audience to people who do.
"Tolerance is not a universal moral imperative; It's a peace treaty."
Karl Popper's Paradox Of Tolerance - sometimes to protect a tolerant society, you have to be intolerant of those who are intolerant, because by tolerating them you eventually destroy what is worth tolerating.
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"I had to look this one up..... sigh Yeah, I'd expect that from reddit...."
Yes, dark humour but aimed at exposing the numbers of people who claim that COVID is fake then die from it.
"This is what Young was trying to do: Force Spotify to silence Rogan to keep his fans and their ad revenue, at the cost of Rogan's fans and ad revenue."
No, he knew he'd not have a meaningful effect on Spotify directly and he doesn't have the leverage to convince them to remove Rogan just because he said so. The actual aim was to get people to talk about Rogan's misinformation and allow people who were otherwise unaware of the massive problems that Rogan is causing to not do business with such an unethical supplier.
This is not censorship, it's the free market at work. Why do you hate the free market?
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They don't even have to be factual, just that the person doing the interview challenges the points being brought up. Rather than presenting people with no real authority as experts on the subject, and letting them spout whatever misinformation they want unquestioned and allowing clear falsehoods to be presented as being on the same level from actual CDC and other experts' positions.
The problem with Rogan isn't just the bad information he platforms, it's that he allows nutters to launder any stupid theory they have as if they had credibility, safe in the knowledge they'll never get any meaningful pushback.
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I'd like it if he could share the laughable source of disinformation he's parroting so that the rest of us can react accordingly.
Just in case anyone's as dumb as the poster above is - according to NPR, 214 million people have been vaccinated in the US alone:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/28/960901166/how-is-the-covid-19-vaccinatio n-campaign-going-in-your-state?t=1645439233289
I'm sure everyone had noticed if 56% of those people had died, given that it would mean around 120 million people, or over 1/3 of the US population had died within a year.
Since we've not seen that, we are clearly dealing with some extraordinarily stupid people who accept any conspiracy theory at face value despite it being obviously not true, and the rest of us would do well to inoculate society against those sources lest the anti-vaxxer infection continue to spread and kill even more people than they already have.
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" but as previous articles have pointed out, these automated systems have a much, much larger false positive ratio than anyone wants to admit"
Citation? Maybe with references to how they're higher than the other solutions that are possible with the volume of data being processed. Or, are we arguing the toss because YouTube is only achueving 99.9999% accuracy rather then the preferred 99.999999%?
From where I'm sitting, there is a problem with automation. But, it's a problem with the automation of what's meant to be a legal claim under penalty of perjury, not the automation of YouTube dealing with the volume of legal demands it receives.
"Personally, I agree with the W.O.P.R., aka Joshua: the only winning move is not to play."
Then don't.
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Re: The Future
"Many of these comments from the Techdirt regulars did not age well"
OK. Which comments? How did they not age well (bearing in mind that basing opinions on facts that have since changed does not mean that the original take was wrong based on the data known at the time)? What specifically do you think was wrong?
"Irrational certainty, villainization and propaganda are far greater dangers than the exaggerated, misused and manipulative concept of "misinformation"."
Yes, so we do wish that you people would stop that while the rest of us are using actual information to try and bring this whole thing to an end. I appreciate that some people who have been fighting the hardest have ended up killing themselves by unnecessarily catching the disease they claim is fake, but the rest of us would prefer it if we can reach the end goal with less bodies.
Every "Fauci is evil and created the disease in a lab to collapse the global economy at the direction of the globalists" moron who dies as a result of their own action is good for the overall trend of fighting this, but you should really stop doing that.
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"Click the little more button and chose download and transfer via USB. Then chose my kindle and download that file. My kindle is incapable of any online verification."
Except, you literally just described the process by which the DRM check is made.
"If I want to use it on another kindle or my phone I have to download it again for the new device"
So, you perform another DRM check. You're really not making the argument you think you're making.
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As ever, you're shifting the argument when proven wrong. We've gone from you claiming that "DVD didn’t ever really hurt VHS sales" (which is fundamentally, objectively, provably false), to claiming that because a tiny number of boutique labels occasionally do a run of VHS copies then that has to count for something. It does, but in nothing like the way you originally claimed.
"The fact that it’s not just one genre. We all can quickly find new horror on VHS. But there’s sci-fi, fantasy, action, even drama."
Cool. Now, what percentage of actual new releases have the VHS option?
"VHS (and SVHS) offers something not easily reproduced in digital production. Warm colours"
I'm not sure which VHS tapes you're watching, but the ones I see are 480p resolution with problems displaying colours on the red side of the spectrum (remember the old joke about NTSC meaning for "Never The Same Colour"?), although that will vary depending on whether you're using NTSC, PAL or SECAM..
Oh, and trying to lump it in with vinyl is pretty desperate. The reason why those arguments work with vinyl is that the sampling required for a digital recording can omit certain frequencies that are present in the analogue master, and since vinyl is also an analogue format then it can capture some sounds that sampling for CD or digital formats can remove. The correct comparison within movies would be a 35mm film print. With VHS, you're taking a movie that's typically shot in a much higher resolution (usually digitally nowadays), then transferring it to a format that loses a lot of the clarity of the original master.
Now, you may prefer the VHS version yourself, but there's no technical justification for what is almost guaranteed to be an objectively worse image on screen, unless you're getting a copy of an old movie shot on video or super 8. Plus, even if your subjective opinion is that you prefer the picture quality of the VHS, there's no way to pretend that it can ever match the sound quality, nor that you suddenly don't have all the other disadvantages that made the format be quickly replaced by DVD in most areas.
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Re: Poe's law?
I think some people are still very bitter about how the US car industry had its ass handed to it decades ago
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"But its affecting everything in the car."
No, it's affecting things that are tied to the central console and the entertainment/GPS functions. From what I understand, the car is still functional, you just lose those extra features that people didn't have at all 30 years ago.
"If its only coming from the FM, why isnt the radio the only one affected?"
Because multiple services run on the same OS that's been affected.
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"Who the fuck is depending on the file extension for anything here?!?!?"
I've worked for a number of companies where tight deadlines, overworked developers and management being willing to turn a blind eye to obvious problems to hit a profit level have led to some bad outcomes. All this really takes is developers not taking into account a use case they didn't think of, and an underfunded testing department (who are always considered the enemy but people trying to release a new revenue stream) not returning those tests or have their tests ignored in favour of gambling that they can make a lot of money before it's exposed.
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I'd guess factual ones? No ones that are clear grifts to scam the uneducated and convince people to risk the lives of others because they're too weak to do things that eradicated previous pandemics?
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"You just don't like his content and want it banned in hopes of forcing others into your "authoritative sources" and desired behaviors though lack of choice."
No, at best he wants to not support liars and propagandists financially, and wishes to inform others that the lies are leading to very negative consequences.
Which, despite the complaints from the knuckle draggers, is as much free speech as the lies.
"Just remember, Chickens come home to roost."
Yes, they do. But, some of us are tired of reading Herman Cain awards detailing how people sacrificed their lives on the altar of lies and would like the private enterprises who are funding them to not do so.
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"Why is it disappointing that Spotify exercised its first amendment right to publish the content they choose to?"
You have a first amendment right to dress up like Hitler and wander around your local Jewish community quoting Mein Kampf. Being allowed to do something and that being a good thing to do are not there same thing.
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Citation needed....
Also, 100% of the people who died at one point breathed oxygen, therefore the answer is clearly to ban oxygen.
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I'd argue with you but since I'm from the town that produces Marmite (the superior yeast extract), I'm happy to accept your opinion that the Australian version is inferior ;)
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