you're saying that you blocked a basic function that would make the software useless for a lot of people because you're so intent on enforcing copyright
same way as how seatbelts are making cars completely useless because you don't have freedom to bump your head to the windshield when drunk driver crashes into your car.
but the tool is free to use for all sorts of other types of copyright infringement if people wish?
Yes. Unfortunately this is the current situation. Mp4 was explicitly blocked, but I allowed standard file formats like .obj, .gltf, .stl etc files... Reasoning what makes this work is that there isn't significant piracy operations that handle these file formats. All piirates are focused on hollywood's movie output, and couldn't care less about 3d models...
so blocking common formats blocks legal activities as well as copyright infringement.
this is why copyright maximalist practices are needed. Any other way and you'll have incentive to accept 2 billion damage award instead of follow copyright. If you don't allow removal of some legal activities, then you'll end up violating copyright. But products never were able to support all use cases that you can think of: your pocket knife is simply not able to extract co2 from atmosphere, even if extracting co2 was a priority for your green hippies.
Your program couldn’t stop you from violating Scott Cawthon’s copyrights despite your claims that it could do exactly that.
I never claimed that. The actual claim has been that mp4 files are not working with our system because of copyright reasons. Scott's material is not mp4, so does not apply.
> computer applications should have mechanisms to prevent pirates from using it for copyright infringements
How do you expect anyone to do this without the power of God?
it happens the same way as any other product development. You analyze the problem, find issues that need to be solved, find solutions to the problems and then implement your requirements. Then its just shipping it to end users.
There hasn't been such a case brought to court, but you're welcome to try to file one and claim someone died because Meshpage was used.
I don't know any cases dealing with meshpage, but I've also created phones. And there has been instances of youtube videos from darwin awards section of youtube where phone users staring at phone screen were killed after tripping over from a cliff. Guess which part of the phones I implemented: (hint it's the phone screen)... So I have experience with creating products which actively killed people.
Product developers can only try to avoid product features where there is danger of people dying because of the product. With large number of users, those statistical chances of someone getting killed cannot be completely eliminated. But the situation is even worse if those problems are not actively fixed from the products that we use.
I can't import Hollywood movies into Blender for the same reason because it's not a file format that software is built for.
If this is true, then blender is also implementing copyright protections for their software. You have consistently claimed that such copy protections are impossible to get working, but now blender is also implementing those same protections.
File format incompatibility is neither blocking nor copyright enforcement.
When mp3 was introduced and half of the planet was pirating those song files, many responsible software developers decided not to support those file formats. This meant that only the illegal products were using mp3 files even though the file format had significant compability advantages, and those products which supported the file format were sued (kazaa, napster etc) successfully by recording companies.
Basically software developers need to decide whether they are able to protect copyright carefully enough, before deciding if some file format will be supported by his software.
I can literally save an image off Google Image Search that doesn’t belong to me right now.
If you're certain of this problem, you can sue google image search for offering pirated material and making you commit copyright infringement. I'm sure google will put a good fight, but in the end, if your arguments have any merit, you'd win your lawsuit and get significant money from largest companies in the world.
But then again, you don't trust enough that your information is correct, so you're too afraid of having to pay the company's lawyers fees that you simply fail to do the correct thing and sue the company.
You’ve made it clear in the past that you think any computer application that can allow any kind of infringement to occur should kneecap its own primary functionality to prevent that infringement, no matter how miniscule.
Yes, this is similar to how cars should have seatbelts or guns shouldn't be sold without permission to criminals. Explosives would need to be controlled enough to not let criminals blow up government buildings. Airplanes have security door to prevent terrorist to crash the plane to world trade center.
In similar manner, computer applications should have mechanisms to prevent pirates from using it for copyright infringements.
This was never required. I cannot help people who do not use meshpage, and they remain to be biggest contributor to infringements.
You’re not legally allowed to infringe on other people’s copyrights because you made a piece of software.
This isn't true. If I can afford to pay 2 billion worth of damage awards for willful infringement, the infringement is just ok. Sadly the 2 billion is slightly too much for any ordinary (non-criminal) people. So to get permission to infringe, you need to become criminal enough to obtain 2 Billion bucks.
Copyright infringement consiquences are just monetary damage awards. If I want to burn 2 billion bucks, infrngement is just ok.
Literally any file format can be used to infringe upon copyright if you know what you’re doing.
If there's no active pirate community available, you simply cannot get access to pirated files which you could use for copyright infringement. Copyright infringement actually requires large organisation dedicated to the criminal actions. When such community does not exists, supporting those file formats is relatively safe operation.
> "it also avoids all copyright infringement from mp4 area"
Cool, so pirates just get the heads up to use a different format?
There's only very small number of dangerous areas like hollywood movies. Other formats simply do not have active pirate community available, which would grow larger if we supplied them with working tools that allowed those piracy operations.
it will never be able to stop anyone else from doing it in any and every context and instance possible.
It already does that, given that there's no customers using the system. Your own calculations about popularity of meshpage proves this aspect. When no customers exist, it "stops anyone else from doing it" and "in every context and instance possible". Of course the problem gets more difficult when more customers start using the system, but current situation is that it actively prevents anyone from infringing...
This is what you get from failing to use meshpage. When you cannot get even cube to the screen with builder tool, I can use this "no customers" -proof to shoot down your claims.
your tech doesn't do all the copyright overblocking you claim it's capable of.
Maybe you can show how to import mp4 file to the system. I currently know no such way how to get hollywood movie displayed with my system. This is the critical test case, there exists enough hollywood movie pirates in the market that practices are needed against this exact use case, and given that you claim I am not doing such practices, it is your task to get a hollywood movie displayed with my system. (hint, that will fail miserably)
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same way as how seatbelts are making cars completely useless because you don't have freedom to bump your head to the windshield when drunk driver crashes into your car.
Yes. Unfortunately this is the current situation. Mp4 was explicitly blocked, but I allowed standard file formats like .obj, .gltf, .stl etc files... Reasoning what makes this work is that there isn't significant piracy operations that handle these file formats. All piirates are focused on hollywood's movie output, and couldn't care less about 3d models...
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this is why copyright maximalist practices are needed. Any other way and you'll have incentive to accept 2 billion damage award instead of follow copyright. If you don't allow removal of some legal activities, then you'll end up violating copyright. But products never were able to support all use cases that you can think of: your pocket knife is simply not able to extract co2 from atmosphere, even if extracting co2 was a priority for your green hippies.
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I never claimed that. The actual claim has been that mp4 files are not working with our system because of copyright reasons. Scott's material is not mp4, so does not apply.
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You can check all the software developers that RIAA didn't sue yet.
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it happens the same way as any other product development. You analyze the problem, find issues that need to be solved, find solutions to the problems and then implement your requirements. Then its just shipping it to end users.
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I don't know any cases dealing with meshpage, but I've also created phones. And there has been instances of youtube videos from darwin awards section of youtube where phone users staring at phone screen were killed after tripping over from a cliff. Guess which part of the phones I implemented: (hint it's the phone screen)... So I have experience with creating products which actively killed people.
Product developers can only try to avoid product features where there is danger of people dying because of the product. With large number of users, those statistical chances of someone getting killed cannot be completely eliminated. But the situation is even worse if those problems are not actively fixed from the products that we use.
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If this is true, then blender is also implementing copyright protections for their software. You have consistently claimed that such copy protections are impossible to get working, but now blender is also implementing those same protections.
When mp3 was introduced and half of the planet was pirating those song files, many responsible software developers decided not to support those file formats. This meant that only the illegal products were using mp3 files even though the file format had significant compability advantages, and those products which supported the file format were sued (kazaa, napster etc) successfully by recording companies.
Basically software developers need to decide whether they are able to protect copyright carefully enough, before deciding if some file format will be supported by his software.
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If you're certain of this problem, you can sue google image search for offering pirated material and making you commit copyright infringement. I'm sure google will put a good fight, but in the end, if your arguments have any merit, you'd win your lawsuit and get significant money from largest companies in the world.
But then again, you don't trust enough that your information is correct, so you're too afraid of having to pay the company's lawyers fees that you simply fail to do the correct thing and sue the company.
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Yes, this is similar to how cars should have seatbelts or guns shouldn't be sold without permission to criminals. Explosives would need to be controlled enough to not let criminals blow up government buildings. Airplanes have security door to prevent terrorist to crash the plane to world trade center.
In similar manner, computer applications should have mechanisms to prevent pirates from using it for copyright infringements.
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This was never required. I cannot help people who do not use meshpage, and they remain to be biggest contributor to infringements.
This isn't true. If I can afford to pay 2 billion worth of damage awards for willful infringement, the infringement is just ok. Sadly the 2 billion is slightly too much for any ordinary (non-criminal) people. So to get permission to infringe, you need to become criminal enough to obtain 2 Billion bucks.
Copyright infringement consiquences are just monetary damage awards. If I want to burn 2 billion bucks, infrngement is just ok.
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So competition is too difficult for you? Maybe you should get back to school to learn some more skills...
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I have admin access to the web server, and the web server allows uploading any files => thus it can never prevent me from doing it.
It's only regular users who don't have admin access which are being controlled by the system.
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If there's no active pirate community available, you simply cannot get access to pirated files which you could use for copyright infringement. Copyright infringement actually requires large organisation dedicated to the criminal actions. When such community does not exists, supporting those file formats is relatively safe operation.
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It only needs to stop my customers. Given that there's no customers, it's automatic QED.
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There's only very small number of dangerous areas like hollywood movies. Other formats simply do not have active pirate community available, which would grow larger if we supplied them with working tools that allowed those piracy operations.
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It already does that, given that there's no customers using the system. Your own calculations about popularity of meshpage proves this aspect. When no customers exist, it "stops anyone else from doing it" and "in every context and instance possible". Of course the problem gets more difficult when more customers start using the system, but current situation is that it actively prevents anyone from infringing...
This is what you get from failing to use meshpage. When you cannot get even cube to the screen with builder tool, I can use this "no customers" -proof to shoot down your claims.
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But techdirt couldn't even get these metrics implemented...
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The critical issue isn't freddys content, but instead you need to show how to get hollywood movie imported. I'm waiting for your proof.
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Maybe you can show how to import mp4 file to the system. I currently know no such way how to get hollywood movie displayed with my system. This is the critical test case, there exists enough hollywood movie pirates in the market that practices are needed against this exact use case, and given that you claim I am not doing such practices, it is your task to get a hollywood movie displayed with my system. (hint, that will fail miserably)
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You just need to ensure that YOU are in the top 1%...
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