The true purpose of ContentID is to provide passive income for parasitic corporations who know it will take the average person too much time and effort (and possibly money) to dispute their millions of bogus copyright claims.
Everyone involved knows this, which is why they don’t bother to fix its overzealous claiming of stuff that is obviously fair use, or worse, that the claimants don’t own at all.
The old adage “never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence” no longer applies during late capitalism. You should always, always assume that large corporations are acting maliciously, or at the very least completely amorally as they attempt to maximize their profit at the expense of others, by any means necessary. #morningthoughts#contentid#copyrightmafia
By that logic every wageworker and capital investor would be lifelong debt peons to schoolbook and textbook authors because they learned and applied the contents of said copyrighted works!
But that's not how any of this works - and we can all be glad for it, because otherwise the #Copyrightmafia would extort everyone as their #racketeering would be the norm, not an opt-in!
I know this is an unpopular opinion, especially here on the open social web, but I really don’t think the longtime copyright protection for the Walt Disney mouse cartoon dampened American artistry or creativity.
Here is why I blame Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until 1918, for keeping Germans from enjoying Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain.
If I were to copy entire works verbatim that'll obviously be a violation as someone who can actually create and thus violate copyrights by virtue of authorship.
OFC If I were to just let a machine do that this doesn't mean I'd get off the hook.
Copyrights for the very first Doctor Who episode, broadcast 60 years ago, were inherited by a racist who rants on Twitter about what a betrayal casting a black man is, and has sworn "vengeance" against the BBC. And thus the episode is no longer available online.
The author in question is dead. Showrunner Verity Lambert is dead. Delia Derbyshire (who did the theme) is dead. The first THREE actors to play the Doctor are dead.
You know, without Web3 NFT bullshit, there was a lost era of decentralized gaming back when it wasn't cost effective to have massive servers for users. Old games which used the host/join system. Hell, just games where one client in a LAN also acted as the server computer. I get it, it's just easier to run all your online interactions through Nintendo, but like... Those old games can still go online, whereas everything else just died. That's sad and we should make that a consideration again.
Piggybacking on @hacks4pancakes epic thread on the stagnation of hacker culture, what are your favorite movies from the past 10 years or so that revolve around cybersecurity? Pondering a new article but am, let's say, not known for a love of movies. :) #ModernHackers#HackerCulture#movies
Excuse me?
Google now moderates your synched bookmarks? The hell?
To clarify: this is a Google Save Collection, which is one of the mechanisms Google syncs bookmarks via. They're not the default in Chrome (but accessible), but they are the only bookmark facility in the Google Search app, using the standard bookmark icon.
The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.
If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!
If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!
And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.
Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.
Hello, my fellow frugal, low-budget or no-budget podcasters. What are your sources for free public domain music, sound effects or images to use in your podcasts? I'll list some of my favorites attached to this post.