Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 29 Mar 2019 @ 9:03am
Incompatibility
Yeah. Free Software implementation of an upload filter would be fascinating. Imagine the legal battles over what options an individual company set or modified. Imagine the public sharing of that codebase, the pull requests, and it's maintenance. Imagine the forks!
<sarc> It's best we leave this to closed, proprietary alternatives. Then we can just imagine that they work. </sarc>
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 26 Mar 2019 @ 2:08pm
Next Steps
Assuming this becomes law in some haphazard implementation in multiple languages / iterations across the EU, how do we think this will actually pan out? Mike, I know you've talked about this speculatively somewhat in other posts and podcasts about how Techdirt might respond, but it seems to be such a horror show, even to you, I'm wondering what additional thought you've given to this and if there are any parallels we can draw from other legislation that might provide insight into what these next 2 years of drafting look like for large players and, unfortunately, the many many small players.
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 2 Jan 2014 @ 8:13pm
And this would likely include all sorts of works from 1985.
You know, out of everything in this post that fact zoinks! me the most because I just realized that part of my childhood should now be freely available to share with my children and re-imagine with/for them. How different the world would be if everyone my age could reinvent and rework their childhoods for their children and share those creations with everyone else.
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 6 Dec 2012 @ 2:28pm
Sort of reminds me how important the internet really is. While the physical world would hardly take notice of such fantastic political art created and distributed on the web, the transition into the physical world causes general craziness to take hold of certain people.
It *is* important if it's on the web, but that is mostly preaching to the choir. It seems that political art about technology is more effective when physical. Wonder how long that will last?
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 19 Oct 2012 @ 9:21pm
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My reaction to that line in the article was simply that it was a bit unfair. I mean, really, how could the music industry have known that PC's would dominate, hard drives would exponentially grow in size and lower in cost, copying & compression would be simplified for teenagers, and we'd share bits and bytes from the comfort of our cushions with complete strangers internationally at dizzying speeds.
I'm not saying the industry has been *smart* about much, but I don't see how they could have predicted the past 30 years with any accuracy (and I wouldn't want the transition to digital changed if they could have predicted all this).
The real issue is their insistence that the digital reality somehow play by physical rules. That misses all the benefits and opportunities that make my mother say "It's the Jetsons" in disbelief about video chat, while penalizing an entire generation for being excited by--and interfacing with--21st century realities.
The history is nice--and I'm glad they didn't see it coming--I'm just not sure how they could have.
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 2 Aug 2012 @ 6:38pm
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments of the Week read by Techdirt and successful artists in the digital space (who are interviewed earlier in the podcast).
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 10:08pm
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I know! If we could only get the major labels to stop "monetizing other people's content" and using the innovation of copyright math to "get that content for free". Good point.
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 9:12pm
Re:
Soviet science officials used to tour US aviation plants with special, sticky-soled to pick up bits of metal so that they could learn the composition of the alloys being used in aircraft manufacture.
Kyle Reynolds Conway (profile), 29 Jun 2012 @ 6:15am
Oh, and the container ship image? Yeah, it's infringing
One wonders if they must use infringing material to masquerade under the aesthetic of a true, grassroots, internet-based assembly of citizens. ... Perhaps they should contemplate that for a moment.
On the post: Free Software Foundation Europe Comes To Its Senses After Calling For EU To Fund Open Source Upload Filters
Incompatibility
Yeah. Free Software implementation of an upload filter would be fascinating. Imagine the legal battles over what options an individual company set or modified. Imagine the public sharing of that codebase, the pull requests, and it's maintenance. Imagine the forks!
<sarc> It's best we leave this to closed, proprietary alternatives. Then we can just imagine that they work. </sarc>
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Re: Could you GET any more blatantly corrupt?
Agreed. What's the point of clarifying the record if it has no effect. This whole thing is laughably bad.
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Next Steps
Assuming this becomes law in some haphazard implementation in multiple languages / iterations across the EU, how do we think this will actually pan out? Mike, I know you've talked about this speculatively somewhat in other posts and podcasts about how Techdirt might respond, but it seems to be such a horror show, even to you, I'm wondering what additional thought you've given to this and if there are any parallels we can draw from other legislation that might provide insight into what these next 2 years of drafting look like for large players and, unfortunately, the many many small players.
On the post: The Grinch Who Stole The Public Domain
You know, out of everything in this post that fact zoinks! me the most because I just realized that part of my childhood should now be freely available to share with my children and re-imagine with/for them. How different the world would be if everyone my age could reinvent and rework their childhoods for their children and share those creations with everyone else.
We've lost a lot more than I ever realized.
On the post: NYC Artist Satirizes Law Enforcement Drone Program; Gets Book Thrown At Him By NYPD
It *is* important if it's on the web, but that is mostly preaching to the choir. It seems that political art about technology is more effective when physical. Wonder how long that will last?
On the post: 30 Years Of The CD, Of Digital Piracy, And Of Music Industry Cluelessness
Re:
I'm not saying the industry has been *smart* about much, but I don't see how they could have predicted the past 30 years with any accuracy (and I wouldn't want the transition to digital changed if they could have predicted all this).
The real issue is their insistence that the digital reality somehow play by physical rules. That misses all the benefits and opportunities that make my mother say "It's the Jetsons" in disbelief about video chat, while penalizing an entire generation for being excited by--and interfacing with--21st century realities.
The history is nice--and I'm glad they didn't see it coming--I'm just not sure how they could have.
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Re: Re:
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Childhood Heroes
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Re:
Nothing innovative here... Move along!
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One wonders if they must use infringing material to masquerade under the aesthetic of a true, grassroots, internet-based assembly of citizens. ... Perhaps they should contemplate that for a moment.
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And just like that, the middlemen disappeared. Poof!
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