Are you sure these are direct re-uploads? Some videos I watched and looked it up on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiIvaGunner">wikipedia</a> stated that these videos have clickbait titles and are actually a different song and a remix. I wonder if Nintendo got baited into thinking their songs were reuploaded than a remix, judging based on title, the game's title on the screen, and the first few seconds of the video.
This was a warning of the future of the internet, I was a kid back then and slightly had some ominous feeling when seeing fbi warnings on movies (not much that it bugs me but annoying that had to pester people that they cannot skip it), and the fact that VHS tape labels having the same thing and also stated to use them in only certain countries. The disabling of right-clicking on planetware (before they removed it now and realized this is comparable to DRM and why I hated section 1201) I am well-aware now.
These are foreshadows of the copyright industries in the future. A desperate move that they rather cut corners and disregard the consequences to instantly nuke a site and just forget about it, in an unchecked, out-of-control manner (in this case, without going to court to have a judge moderate the copyright holder's request).
No site, regardless if it is legal or not is safe from this. If anyone can file fraudulent takedowns on youtube videos, they can do the same on any website but with extra damage and with zero-tolerance (just one “copyright strike” instead of youtube's 3-strike). It is like you instantly go to prison without even a lawsuit for doing normal things like most civilians do for them thinking you did a crime.
This bill is therefore RUSHED, as exactly stated by Extra Credit's video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VZZ8-TGhfc it only had the punishing provisions on there but is like a Sniper with defective aiming.
Along with disabling select and several shortcut keys:
Browsers run websites in a sandboxed environment, meaning javascript cannot access all parts of the browser so only certain user operations can be overridden. If it can, then not just those “DRMed” sites will do it, also so will malicious sites like tech support scams (often using browlocking techiques) and other dangerous sites.
“Inspect Element/devtools disabled!” Well, only the shortcut keys are disabled. Like, on the tab, go to a page that doesn't have such a code, F12, keep that open, then visit the site with the “DRM”. Alternatively, since JS cannot touch most of the in-browser menus, going to the hamburger menu on the top-right -> More Tools -> (Web) developer Tools (google chrome and firefox) will also work.
Plus, firefox has a feature that enable user to entirely avoid the blocking of context menus by holding down SHIFT. As a reminder, the browser is the user's agent, not the website/webmaster's. Even with the alert boxes (browser's alert dialogue box, not the site's interstitial popups) closing it out the menu will appear. This was tested on https://www.dreamlandresort.com/ (not to be confused with https://www.dreamlandresorts.com/)
And one final thing: 1201 backing this up is likely to fail because of how ineffective this is in stopping people bypassing it. To have 1201 backing this up requires that the code must be effective.
If anyone have found a news article that someone tried to 1201'ed a browser extension enabling user to rightclick/bypass shortcut keys restrictions/etc., let me know by replying this message. I already know about admiral attack on adblock plus.
To block prohibited keywords is not an easy, as people try to use euphemism and any other methods of replacing words that mean something prohibited with innocents words. This is where context is really really hard for AI to understand this.
I really don't know if this is a 1201 violation, but most CDs using region locks detect by checking the code embedded in the media player (disk player, for example).
I was wondering you can legally bypass this by bringing the media player itself too along with the disk, as they both don't use internet and just check each other's code to know if it is in an unauthorized country.
This lead to games becoming abandonware. Games based on movies, TV shows, comic books, etc. Effectively making them a limited time to obtain these games legally. Blame 1201 and the fact that copyright last extremely long EVEN when they're not enforced.
The fact that copyright alone and 1201 are treated separately and that the copyright's original limitations and exemptions (fair use) is not being applied to 1201 shows that it is really a joke.
Like I mean, to prevent an activity (bypass techinical restrictions) that would lead to an illegal activity (actual copyright infringement) despite the latter activity is already illegal, is absolutely stupid and unecessary. Once cracked and released, this cannot be undone.
Like take for example, browsers flagging sites malicious. Google chrome, firefox, and possibly edge does not forbid you visiting those sites, and even antivirus/antimalware software also do the same, warn you ahead of time, and it is up to you if you want to “accept the risk” or not.
I totally agree. This privacy claim is something that CONSUMERS should should have control on, not apple. If it belongs to consumers, then they should have the control on to dictate how their privacy goes.
This is equivalent on adobe shutting down flash. Instead of just giving a notification that the software is vulnerable to attack and give the user the option to run the software or not, they completely blocked it for all users. It is up to the user to decide they should run the risk with warnings, but adobe took that away and people HAD to create their own software if they wanted to be playable again.
Re: Uhh...
whoops, used the wrong formatting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiIvaGunner
Uhh...
Are you sure these are direct re-uploads? Some videos I watched and looked it up on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiIvaGunner">wikipedia</a> stated that these videos have clickbait titles and are actually a different song and a remix. I wonder if Nintendo got baited into thinking their songs were reuploaded than a remix, judging based on title, the game's title on the screen, and the first few seconds of the video.
Obviously herd about this on TMME’s video
TheMysteriousMrEnter posted this video long ago:
https://youtu.be/jiSXoEbILhw
at 5:32-5:43 sums it all up. To post things online without breaking any laws in the world.
Not the first time of copyright takedown of shocking content
Activision Blizzard’s takedown of Overwatch porn videos
Warner Bros takedown of a fan-made violent Loony Tunes.
it’s the impression of that it “scares your customers away from the official product” mentality.
SOPA/PIPA, beaten into a bloody pulp...
This was a warning of the future of the internet, I was a kid back then and slightly had some ominous feeling when seeing fbi warnings on movies (not much that it bugs me but annoying that had to pester people that they cannot skip it), and the fact that VHS tape labels having the same thing and also stated to use them in only certain countries. The disabling of right-clicking on planetware (before they removed it now and realized this is comparable to DRM and why I hated section 1201) I am well-aware now.
These are foreshadows of the copyright industries in the future. A desperate move that they rather cut corners and disregard the consequences to instantly nuke a site and just forget about it, in an unchecked, out-of-control manner (in this case, without going to court to have a judge moderate the copyright holder's request).
No site, regardless if it is legal or not is safe from this. If anyone can file fraudulent takedowns on youtube videos, they can do the same on any website but with extra damage and with zero-tolerance (just one “copyright strike” instead of youtube's 3-strike). It is like you instantly go to prison without even a lawsuit for doing normal things like most civilians do for them thinking you did a crime.
This bill is therefore RUSHED, as exactly stated by Extra Credit's video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VZZ8-TGhfc it only had the punishing provisions on there but is like a Sniper with defective aiming.
IMDB was also a target...
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-companies-continually-report-imdb-as-a-pirate-site-181230/
And also random news sites along with the EFF itself when topple track went haywire.
This is as hard as the scunthorpe problem, false positives and bad people bypassing the system (substitution, obfuscating/encrypting the data, etc).
SOPA turns automated DMCA senders into a nuclear missile launchers, and any “City” it has criminals will be nuked.
I thought putting prices of a product behind a logwall...
...was bad enough. See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/6pmq26/login_to_view_price/
I'm worried about their influence to the government office
The feeling that they would bend the copyright office in their vision is very telling. Fuck these corpos.
It’s a rootkit, anti-cheat edition.
Now we have to worry about anti-cheat used in video games that have access to the kernel level.
Controlling someone's browser jesus christ
Speaking of that, mediafire tried to do that with skipscreen
And funnily enough, that site is infested with malvertising activity.
As a reminder about rightclick “DRM”
Along with disabling select and several shortcut keys:
Browsers run websites in a sandboxed environment, meaning javascript cannot access all parts of the browser so only certain user operations can be overridden. If it can, then not just those “DRMed” sites will do it, also so will malicious sites like tech support scams (often using browlocking techiques) and other dangerous sites.
“Inspect Element/devtools disabled!” Well, only the shortcut keys are disabled. Like, on the tab, go to a page that doesn't have such a code, F12, keep that open, then visit the site with the “DRM”. Alternatively, since JS cannot touch most of the in-browser menus, going to the hamburger menu on the top-right -> More Tools -> (Web) developer Tools (google chrome and firefox) will also work.
Plus, firefox has a feature that enable user to entirely avoid the blocking of context menus by holding down SHIFT. As a reminder, the browser is the user's agent, not the website/webmaster's. Even with the alert boxes (browser's alert dialogue box, not the site's interstitial popups) closing it out the menu will appear. This was tested on https://www.dreamlandresort.com/ (not to be confused with https://www.dreamlandresorts.com/)
And one final thing: 1201 backing this up is likely to fail because of how ineffective this is in stopping people bypassing it. To have 1201 backing this up requires that the code must be effective.
If anyone have found a news article that someone tried to 1201'ed a browser extension enabling user to rightclick/bypass shortcut keys restrictions/etc., let me know by replying this message. I already know about admiral attack on adblock plus.
The overblocking might be likely a scunthorpe problem
To block prohibited keywords is not an easy, as people try to use euphemism and any other methods of replacing words that mean something prohibited with innocents words. This is where context is really really hard for AI to understand this.
Phone homing and suveillanceware
https://torrentfreak.com/isp-ordered-to-hand-over-pirates-details-after-cracked-software-phoned-home -200629/
https://torrentfreak.com/software-company-fines-pirates-after-monitoring-their-computers-18 1102/
Yeah, I'm going free and open source alternatives, the ones that don't have proprietary licenses like this.
Re: Allot
I really don't know if this is a 1201 violation, but most CDs using region locks detect by checking the code embedded in the media player (disk player, for example).
I was wondering you can legally bypass this by bringing the media player itself too along with the disk, as they both don't use internet and just check each other's code to know if it is in an unauthorized country.
Re: Agreed.
This lead to games becoming abandonware. Games based on movies, TV shows, comic books, etc. Effectively making them a limited time to obtain these games legally. Blame 1201 and the fact that copyright last extremely long EVEN when they're not enforced.
I talked to my representive about these “empty enforcement” to make copyrights expire if the holder goes inactive. Something like an inactivity check like the other IP laws have: Trademark requires re-registration every 10 years and have to be used: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/maintain/keeping-your-registration-alive, and patents last 20 years, and require perodic fees to keep its enforceability: https://www.stopfakes.gov/article?id=How-Long-Does-Patent-Trademark-or-Copyright-Protection-Last
It is really dumb that it isn't one with copyright law.
The fact that copyright alone and 1201 are treated separately and that the copyright's original limitations and exemptions (fair use) is not being applied to 1201 shows that it is really a joke.
Like I mean, to prevent an activity (bypass techinical restrictions) that would lead to an illegal activity (actual copyright infringement) despite the latter activity is already illegal, is absolutely stupid and unecessary. Once cracked and released, this cannot be undone.
Reminds me of spore’s securom
A different graphical card causes the DRM to think you’re running a different PC.
Re: I smell bovine feces
Like take for example, browsers flagging sites malicious. Google chrome, firefox, and possibly edge does not forbid you visiting those sites, and even antivirus/antimalware software also do the same, warn you ahead of time, and it is up to you if you want to “accept the risk” or not.
Re: I smell bovine feces
I totally agree. This privacy claim is something that CONSUMERS should should have control on, not apple. If it belongs to consumers, then they should have the control on to dictate how their privacy goes.
This is equivalent on adobe shutting down flash. Instead of just giving a notification that the software is vulnerable to attack and give the user the option to run the software or not, they completely blocked it for all users. It is up to the user to decide they should run the risk with warnings, but adobe took that away and people HAD to create their own software if they wanted to be playable again.
Video about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9VPk44zM78
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