Wasn't there a case a few years ago where one of the large music distributors did the same thing to a similar YouTube musician? The motive being that shutting down his channel and income would make it easier to buy the rights to his music.
Re: "speaking up for Ujile" doesn't mean attacking DMCA! It means ATTACK MORE CRIMINALS.
I'm starting to miss the days when - if you criticized a bad law or corporate wrongdoing - the wingnuts screamed "communist!!!" They were stupid and delusional, but not *this* stupid and delusional.
Tablets and phones complement PCs. They rarely replace them. Because while tablets and phones are good for consuming *some* types of content, PCs rule at creating it.
Anything that involves data entry - accounting or spreadsheets, CAD or paint, web or app development - simply works far better on a PC's keyboard, mouse and larger screen. Programming, even for phone and tablet apps, is pretty much exclusive to PCs.
The obvious explanation for issuing that Twitter user data subpoena is that someone at the DOJ thinks that tweeting a smiley emoji at others indicates conspiracy or collaboration. I expect they'll invoke RICO.
That one of those users is Ken White is required by narrative convention.
Once it was called out as weak, vulnerable and not really encryption, Faircom rebranded it from the "Faircom Standard Encryption" to "Data Camouflage"...
Denuvo should rebrand its DRM as "Data Speedbump."
They can. Scanners are cheap and easily available. Mine even connects to my network and monitors several types of digital trunked systems used by emergency services these days.
But as you elaborate, the difference is encryption. Only the police may demand the decrypted metadata.
BTW, some police services are encrypting their signals. But like cellular networks the trunking system that controls those signals offers a wealth of metadata. The app that comes with my scanner doesn't have a tool to look at it, but there's a command in the programming API that will fetch it.
The local office may have referred them to head office. Or maybe the case was defended from head office. Regardless of why, Google does business in Spain, so they're subject to Spanish law.
Google does business in Spain, so they're subject to Spanish law. Should foreign-headquartered multinationals operating in the US ignore American court orders?
Of course, context is important. If the app were about Texas or Vermont separatists, they probably could and would ignore a Spanish court.
Re: Re: Re: But NO problem when Google chooses what will be censored?
Wooo; scare quotes! I'm posting with my real name. I'm assuming that you are too.
There have been plenty of stories here criticizing Google. Sometimes followed up by posts joking about your claims that it doesn't happen. You've become a running gag.
Most stories about Google are neither pro nor anti Google. They criticize various questionable government and litigant claims, with Google merely being the biggest and most obvious excuse for their butthurt or the ill health of their favorite dinosaurs.
But do a simple Google search, and you'll find plenty of stories criticizing Google too. One about Google censorship a few weeks ago comes up on the first page of results.
Let's call this what it actually is: Google has occasionally been hamfisted and stupid on how it handles YouTube on third party devices chiefly in order to exert a greater level of control it rarely actually achieves. In some ways this has all the hallmarks of a Sony-style way of doing business, which is an odd look for Google.
Cryptography - secret writing - is the practice of keeping secrets. It involves three parties: a sender, a receiver and an attacker [...]. We usually call these people Alice, Bob and Carol. [A few explanations of cipher, ciphertext and key] In DRM, the attacker is also the recipient. It's not Alice and Bob and Carol, it's just Alice and Bob. So Alice has to provide Bob - the attacker - with the key, the cipher and the ciphertext. Hilarity ensues.
A single Trump tweet shaved off about $1.2 billion of Lockheed Martin's market value. But that's OK, because he was Making America Great Again.
Meanwhile China aims to become the world's leading economic power. It's not at all far-fetched. And a Chinese President has far more control than an American one. There's ever more investment in China by American companies.
Before long a calculated tweet by President Xi could shave a $billion off an American company's market value. That's when the government, the courts and everyone else will demand that Something Be Done about presidents and Twitter.
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Re: "speaking up for Ujile" doesn't mean attacking DMCA! It means ATTACK MORE CRIMINALS.
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Anything that involves data entry - accounting or spreadsheets, CAD or paint, web or app development - simply works far better on a PC's keyboard, mouse and larger screen. Programming, even for phone and tablet apps, is pretty much exclusive to PCs.
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Re: Re: You've noticed the intrinsic drawback to cell phones and computers.
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Re: Re: You've noticed the intrinsic drawback to cell phones and computers.
Another key point omitted as always here is that 2+2=7. For the same reason.
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That one of those users is Ken White is required by narrative convention.
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Denuvo should rebrand its DRM as "Data Speedbump."
On the post: Law Prof Argues Cell Location Records Shouldn't Need Warrants Because Cell Phones Have Encryption
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They can. Scanners are cheap and easily available. Mine even connects to my network and monitors several types of digital trunked systems used by emergency services these days.
But as you elaborate, the difference is encryption. Only the police may demand the decrypted metadata.
BTW, some police services are encrypting their signals. But like cellular networks the trunking system that controls those signals offers a wealth of metadata. The app that comes with my scanner doesn't have a tool to look at it, but there's a command in the programming API that will fetch it.
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to keep the status quo.
And everywhere that Mary went,
the feds were sure to know.
On the post: Google Removed Catalonian Referendum App Following Spanish Court Order
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Good to know.
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Re: Re: Re: Valid?
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Re: Valid?
Of course, context is important. If the app were about Texas or Vermont separatists, they probably could and would ignore a Spanish court.
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Re: Re: Re: But NO problem when Google chooses what will be censored?
Wooo; scare quotes! I'm posting with my real name. I'm assuming that you are too.
There have been plenty of stories here criticizing Google. Sometimes followed up by posts joking about your claims that it doesn't happen. You've become a running gag.
Most stories about Google are neither pro nor anti Google. They criticize various questionable government and litigant claims, with Google merely being the biggest and most obvious excuse for their butthurt or the ill health of their favorite dinosaurs.
But do a simple Google search, and you'll find plenty of stories criticizing Google too. One about Google censorship a few weeks ago comes up on the first page of results.
On the second page of results, the headline:
Spoiler: It's not pro-Google.
Naturally, one comment was voted Funny by the readers:
Running gag. You may have hidden your name, but your core identity is well known.
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Cory Doctorow explained it back in 2004 in a talk to the Microsoft Research group:
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Re: But NO problem when Google chooses what will be censored?
Just so we know how to respond.
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On the post: Lawyers: Trump's Twitter Account Not Presidential; Also: Trump Is President, Can't Be Sued
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Just as Republicans, who demonized Obama for being unpresidential for things like wearing a tan suit. (Hard to believe NOW, right?)
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A single Trump tweet shaved off about $1.2 billion of Lockheed Martin's market value. But that's OK, because he was Making America Great Again.
Meanwhile China aims to become the world's leading economic power. It's not at all far-fetched. And a Chinese President has far more control than an American one. There's ever more investment in China by American companies.
Before long a calculated tweet by President Xi could shave a $billion off an American company's market value. That's when the government, the courts and everyone else will demand that Something Be Done about presidents and Twitter.
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Start tweeting at Trump that the official account is only for those who won the popular vote, then watch what happens.
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