"Kagan agreed" who, or what, is Kagan? Perhaps I'm missing it, but it's referred to twice (once as part of a quote) but with zero mention as to wtf it is.
Yes it included name as well as full address, telephone number and email address, I know because I was one of the people quoted in the torrentfreak article, basically it was the data that you are required to submit as part of a counter notice
What's missing from this story is the fact that the google car *didn't* change lanes, it tried moving back to the centre of its own lane.
Apparently the lanes are wide enough to allow 2 cars if the car turning right hugs the right of the lane, which the google car was programmed to do as a courtesy to other road users (not blocking traffic for people who aren't turning right).
Imaging the hard drive is the unlimited duration they are talking about, as in, once they imaged the hard drive and gave the laptop back, they could search the contents of the image for an unlimited duration
You would be surprised, with 2 million subscribers he's probably not doing bad, people have been able to make a full time living and support on a family with that amount of subscribers
I think illegal is a strong word, none of those sites are trying to sell copyrighted material all they are trying to do is provide a service for the end user and if anything provide free promotion for the movies / tv shows / music artists they provide artwork for.
Certainly with fanart.tv (as the admin / developer of fanart.tv, that's the only site I can really talk about) if you exclude posters and wallpapers (which were only added by popular demand) the other artwork types by and large take a lot of work to create and would only be done by dedicated fans.
Kodi currently hits our API about 50million times a month
I can't tell from the description but the app isn't necessarily even getting the images itself if it's just pulling the images as stored by Kodi (formerly XBMC), and Kodi gets its images from user submitted collections such as https://fanart.tv https://www.themoviedb.org/ or http://thetvdb.com/ which are all operating under a presumption of fair use as their entire purpose for being is to provide fans with the best possible media experience.
In addition fanart.tv gets incorrectly filed "Notice of DMCA removal from Google Search" notices every few days, every single one of which claims the url that has been indicated is hosting the "movie", which is abssolutely not the case, it's clearly an automated system that I have to spend hours every month sending counter claims for.
You have no idea how angry this comment has made me, it's the vampire that refuses to give it up before they are married. I'm not angry you got it wrong, I'm angry I know that, lol.
You might want to look into ovh, they have recently expanded to cover the USA and Canada, my site http://fanart.tv gets nowhere near the bandwidth techdirt does probably (about 10,000 visitors a day to the site) but the API (which just returns JSON or XML) gets between 1.3 - 2 million hits a day (it's used by a lot of mediacentres like XBMC) and our costs are currently just £1530 a year (it's easier for me to pay for a year in advance), that's for 2 servers both with a dedicated 100mbit connection (so no bandwidth limitations except what the pipe can physically do), so a few servers like http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/eg_64g.xml would probably work really well for techdirt and be a lot cheaper.
I was watching the end of the hearing, and the guy at the end said that noone had disagreed that piracy is causing job losses and costing billions of dollars, so if its incontravertable then something needs to be done, whether the bill has unintended consequences or not, something has to be done...
When you only invite people to speak who don't have that view point, it's not really that surprising that none of them disagreed, maybe if they had invited some people who had a differing view point things might have been different (the lady from google only really addressed things that affect google)
Kagan who?
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Apparently the lanes are wide enough to allow 2 cars if the car turning right hugs the right of the lane, which the google car was programmed to do as a courtesy to other road users (not blocking traffic for people who aren't turning right).
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Certainly with fanart.tv (as the admin / developer of fanart.tv, that's the only site I can really talk about) if you exclude posters and wallpapers (which were only added by popular demand) the other artwork types by and large take a lot of work to create and would only be done by dedicated fans.
Kodi currently hits our API about 50million times a month
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In addition fanart.tv gets incorrectly filed "Notice of DMCA removal from Google Search" notices every few days, every single one of which claims the url that has been indicated is hosting the "movie", which is abssolutely not the case, it's clearly an automated system that I have to spend hours every month sending counter claims for.
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So annoying
When you only invite people to speak who don't have that view point, it's not really that surprising that none of them disagreed, maybe if they had invited some people who had a differing view point things might have been different (the lady from google only really addressed things that affect google)
Very dissapointing.
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