P03 Locke @ p03locke @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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That's exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can't exactly fork the data, because they've locked down the API.

Bluesky could do the exact same thing.

Imagine getting sued by Nintendo because you said the word "Nintendon't".

Like physically? Because if he's not going out there and doing it himself, this judge is not doing shit.

Those pussies couldn't even put out their tag line without having some legal blurb at the bottom.

Oh noes... my registered trademark!

Bluesky is centralized but it seems like its design is committed enough to open technology that it would take them a long time to walk it back

Let's not forget that Reddit's code is open source. Just because their technology is open doesn't mean that the data, usage, and network are protected.

Why bother reporting the news when you can get the creators of the show to write their own biased review for you?

It's a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth for the public resource, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them "Hey, morons, go download the goddamn ZIP file with all of the data!" saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.

Company I worked for resorted to just detecting and blocking all bots, which sometimes translated into some funny support calls. "Why can't I just break your TOS and have bots run wild against your data?!"

Wow, this "journalist" had no idea what games programming was like back then. Yars Revenge even used its own code to display the neutral zone. There were a lot of creative tricks like that to save on memory and CPU.

Tanks!

Had a ton of fun with that one when I was a kid.

WTF, Germany?

But, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is what the DNC is good at.

Relevant

I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.

This will keep getting shorter until it turns into a calculus problem.

You won't even get a certificate, just a token from some SSL token warehouse. Why should I trust it? Because some random company says so!

This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.

If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don't really "own" your media at that point.

Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don't sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

That's not completely true. Fair Use has four declarations that you must pass, so there's at least some definition to how it would play out in the courts. But, it's not a definitive rule of law, so yeah it's not going to keep you out of the courts.

that is technically transformative, but most likely not enough to justify fair use.

Right, but it's pretty obvious that the transformation for AI is very transformative, and it's lossy at that. After the training, you can't just duplicate the image it was trained from, even if it was asked a thousand times.

Copyrights aren't for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it "protects the little person", but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

As such, I would like to extend this to 'delete all copyright law'.

Imagine going back to exclusivity with gaming consoles. PCs, and by extension, Steam won the console wars, and Nintendo is just trying its damnest to hold on to the last gasp of gaming exclusivity.

This has serious "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college" energy.