dbwalton opened this issue on Oct 23, 2020 ยท 238 posts
RHaseltine posted Sat, 12 October 2024 at 7:57 PM
SydneyInPeril posted at 11:32 AM Sat, 12 October 2024 - #4490226About the only prep I can effectively do for the future, is make sure that I have full unadulterated control over my own hardware that I've paid for, wherever I can do so, and that does mean stepping away from just about all commercial software offerings involving it. There is no such thing as a "perpetual" software license, at best it only effectively lasts as long as you have a computer that can run the software.
Legality will always be connected to money. Look at Disney, getting copyright extended to 70 years. Most younger people today have never seen any of the films I grew up on, never heard of any of the great actors and actresses. The purpose of copyright law was to protect the artists. Now it's used to make them disappear.
The films are not on endless repeat on various cable and on demand services?
About copyright, the Chinese say "How can I steal it if there isn't anything missing?" Any good idea can look ridiculous when taken to an extreme. Al Gore passed a law in 1996, the DMCA, that says anything we post on a website becomes the PROPERTY of that website. What was he thinking.
No, that is not what the DMCA says. The DMCA gives hosts a degree of protection by allowing them to function as intermediaries rather than having to police the content submitted - if X sees an infringement they report it to the host and it is taken down, details of the complaint being passed to the uploader. if the complaint is invalid the uploader can submit a countre notice, the host restores the content, and the counter notice is passed to the complainant; it is then up to the compalainant to decide whether to pursue the uploader using the supplied contact details, with the host leaving the content up or taking it down as dtermined by the outcome of any legal action. It is not an ideal system - a stalker's dream since the victim won't want to complain or submit a counter notice with their details 9unless they can afford lawyers) and similarly useful for perople wanting to cover up embarrassing information - but it doesn't do what you say.
I've tried to read about these laws, but every other word is Maybe and Sometimes and Possibly.
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When the Music Industry turned against the music video, Popular Music as we knew it devolved into cursing and shouting. Today, rentware is having a negative effect on our definition of Art.