Simple: would such a DMCA reform bring more money from the billionaire donors? Probably not. The administration needs new powers to wield arbitrarily against those who forgot to pay the latest installment of protection money.
Re: Re: The Publishers are more evil than the RIAA and even the
Everything is a violation of copyright law. There's no way to respect it literally in a digital world. Jessica Litman made this point already in 2001...
FSFE recently just made an example of an open standard for interoperability (XMPP) which was overlooked by the European commission in the Facebook/WhatsApp case. The comments were part of an upcoming revision of the antitrust regime. https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200519-01.html
In Chicago, police shootings dropped following protests over the shooting of Laquan McDonald and fell further after the city adopted more restrictive use-of-force policies and a new police accountability system.
And:
This suggests that reforms may be working in the places that have implemented them. Many of these reforms were initiated in response to protests and public outcry over high-profile deaths at the hands of police — most notably in Baltimore following the police killing of Freddie Gray, in San Francisco following the killing of Mario Woods, and in Chicago and Dallas following the deaths of Laquan McDonald and James Harper. This suggests that protests and public pressure may have played an important role in producing policy changes that reduced police shootings, at least in some cities.
Bangladesh brings charges before using force of them? How advanced! Minneapolis police might invite some Bangladeshi officials to conduct some professional training.
Significant human rights issues included: arbitrary or unlawful killings by the government or its agents; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; violence against journalists including assaults, death threats and one journalist shot and killed; censorship of a free press including arrests and the closure of two radio stations for ostensible licensing irregularities; corruption in all branches of government; crimes of violence against women and girls, to which government negligence significantly contributed
Or ganized criminal elements, including local and transnational gangs and narcotics traffickers, were significant perpetrators of violent crimes and committed acts of homicide, torture, kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, intimidation, and other threats and violence directed against human rights defenders, judicial authorities, lawyers, the business community, journalists, bloggers, women, and members of vulnerable populations. The government investigated and prosecuted many of these crimes,
Sig nificant human rights issues included: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings, by and on behalf of the government and nonstate actors; reports of forced disappearance by and on behalf of the government and nonstate actors; torture by and on behalf of the government and nonstate actors; arbitrary detention by and on behalf of the government and nonstate actors; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary and unlawful interference with privacy; significant problems with the independence of the judiciary; the worst forms of restrictions on free expression and the press, including violence, threats of violence, and unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists, censorship, and the existence of criminal libel laws; corruption
Ajit Pai is probably already looking in "ostensible licensing irregularities" of the news venues whose journalists were assaulted by police. What else is missing?
There is one kind of facility of which there's a clear surplus, and which would not need to be rebuilt if burnt down to ashes: prisons. Especially private prisons. In Europe it's common for demonstrations to go around prisons, doesn't it happen across the Atlantic?
She points out that kicking Trump off Twitter is a non-starter.
Yes, but it would be nice if he left on his own. The GOP can make its own Mastodon server and if Trump moves there it will get millions of users overnight.
All other instances in the fediverse except Gab will probably block it, so it will be completely insulated from the "normal" discourse, which is how the right-wing media work (see "Network propaganda" by Benckler). Trump's comments will inundate Twitter and all the other social networks all the same, because Reuters and everyone else rush to repost them everywhere, but Trump will have its own Fox News of social media.
The only difficulty might be how to square this with the advertising campaigns where the conversion factor is measured against merchandise sold and mailing list subscriptions.
Makes sense. Increase compliance cost so that higher financial incentives are required and copyright needs to expand. A win-win situation for the usual suspects?
There is youtube-dl which is in Python, but doesn't convert video only.
I'm not sure I grasped the intended meaning of this sentence, but with youtube-dl you can often download just the audio, or just the video, or merge them, or convert them to another container format. Of course it has some dependencies for that (no idea if anything works in Windows; but then, you can never expect any program to work correctly in Windows) and not all websites are configured, but it's often rather easy to add support for a website to youtube-dl with some basic Python skills.
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Re: Diseases
Attention, it's not politically correct to say "disease". FSF had to reword!
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/software-patents-are-another-kind-of-disease
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Follow the money
Simple: would such a DMCA reform bring more money from the billionaire donors? Probably not. The administration needs new powers to wield arbitrarily against those who forgot to pay the latest installment of protection money.
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Re: Re: The Publishers are more evil than the RIAA and even the
Everything is a violation of copyright law. There's no way to respect it literally in a digital world. Jessica Litman made this point already in 2001...
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Interoperability at Facebook
FSFE recently just made an example of an open standard for interoperability (XMPP) which was overlooked by the European commission in the Facebook/WhatsApp case. The comments were part of an upcoming revision of the antitrust regime.
https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200519-01.html
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Re: Re: Just watch it:
Finland too.
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Expected costs
This seems a bit hard to believe, for a random small business. (But I'm not sure which definition of SME is being used here.)
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not write or peer-review for any journal from these publishers
You might be interested in joining https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/
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Re: Re: Re: Send in the military! NOW!
They only resigned from one team, they're still employed by the police department.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/new-york-state-57-police-resign-to-suppo rt-officers-fired-for-shoving-75-year-old
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Order by the judge
Minor correction: technically the order is from a judge at the Court of Rome, requested by a prosecutor (pubblico ministero or PM) there. The "GIP" is similar to an "examing magistrate" and comes into play before a trial actually starts.
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Some places where killings went down
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-are-killing-fewer-people-in-big-cities-but-more-in-subur ban-and-rural-america/ appears to have some useful pointers based on data:
And:
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Due process
Bangladesh brings charges before using force of them? How advanced! Minneapolis police might invite some Bangladeshi officials to conduct some professional training.
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If it happened anywhere else
https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/ghana/
https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/honduras/
https://www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/philippines /
Ajit Pai is probably already looking in "ostensible licensing irregularities" of the news venues whose journalists were assaulted by police. What else is missing?
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Re: Re: Redundant assets
In Milan there is a regular (authorised) demonstration around San Vittore at least twice a year.
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Redundant assets
There is one kind of facility of which there's a clear surplus, and which would not need to be rebuilt if burnt down to ashes: prisons. Especially private prisons. In Europe it's common for demonstrations to go around prisons, doesn't it happen across the Atlantic?
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Kids
Maybe "dislike the kids" is exactly what unites them. You riot? Take one more copyright law!
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Mastodon
Yes, but it would be nice if he left on his own. The GOP can make its own Mastodon server and if Trump moves there it will get millions of users overnight.
All other instances in the fediverse except Gab will probably block it, so it will be completely insulated from the "normal" discourse, which is how the right-wing media work (see "Network propaganda" by Benckler). Trump's comments will inundate Twitter and all the other social networks all the same, because Reuters and everyone else rush to repost them everywhere, but Trump will have its own Fox News of social media.
The only difficulty might be how to square this with the advertising campaigns where the conversion factor is measured against merchandise sold and mailing list subscriptions.
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Re: Michael Moore takedown
Uh, "several seconds of footage" quoted, an outrage!
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Re: Incentives
Makes sense. Increase compliance cost so that higher financial incentives are required and copyright needs to expand. A win-win situation for the usual suspects?
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Re: Balkanization
Newsflash: China already did that, and global companies are already complying. For instance, Apple:
https://qz.com/1723334/apple-removes-taiwan-flag-emoji-in-hong-kong-macau-in-ios-13-1-1/
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Re: Will there be spotify torrents?
I'm not sure I grasped the intended meaning of this sentence, but with youtube-dl you can often download just the audio, or just the video, or merge them, or convert them to another container format. Of course it has some dependencies for that (no idea if anything works in Windows; but then, you can never expect any program to work correctly in Windows) and not all websites are configured, but it's often rather easy to add support for a website to youtube-dl with some basic Python skills.
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