A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

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• squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Original source with options for video and audio downloads, independent from YouTube.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah… the very fact this is posted as a youtube video reinforces the point of how far we are from this. The issue is, the enshitified internet is not a technology problem… it’s an education/people problem.

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It should be viewed on youtube. The reasoning being: we are trying to get as many people to watch this as possible. Watching the video on youtube boosts it and shows it to more people at the moment its reached 75k people. Watching it on CCC.de is nothing but a few hundred nerds jerking themselves off about being decentralized.

      Most content should be watched decentralized where possible but for “messaging” posts we need them on mainstream platforms boosted by engagement as much as possible.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh it definatly is a technology problem though. There well never be a federated Youtube for instance. Think about that the storage that Google uses since videos are not really deleted, and the bandwidth to server that much video. It doens’t really scale with federation.

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    • ThoGot@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      People per se are lazy (not derogatory) and will almost always use the path of least resistance, unless there’s something to gain. And most people don’t notice any negative influence on their lives from these data-grabbing platforms

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    • baconmonsta@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Way to blame the victim!

      This is a result of anti-competitive business practices and legislative capture in the U.S. It’s not going to change until things change over there or until the rest of the world decouples from them somehow.

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• leadore@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

  tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

  1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

  2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withholds billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

  And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest.

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• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Speaking of enshittification… why just post a youtube video with zero explanation of the content?

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• unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I watched the first 10-15 minutes of this and have to say, while I agree with him on principle, he's either misinformed or exaggerating the anti-circumvention regulation. There are a number of exemptions in anti-circumvention laws in the US for personal use. How far this goes was made clear in court, Apple took the creators of an iOS jailbreak to court and lost, making it clear that jailbreaking is not illegal, even though it clearly circumvents the "protection" system in place. Similar applies to circumventing DRM for backup copies of media, for instance.

  Of course, I would rather see no anti-circumvention legislation whatsoever, but the way he misportrays the situation makes me question his credibility.

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  • IanTwenty@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The EFF have a page on this, setting out the threats:

    https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-under-dmca

    …which is mostly a link to:

    https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf

    …whose summary reads as follows.

    The “anti-­‐circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. The law was ostensibly intended to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-­‐piracy protections added to copyrighted works.[1] In practice, the anti-­‐circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities. As a result, the DMCA has become a serious threat to several important public policy priorities:

    The DMCA Chills Free Expression and Scientific Research.

    Experience with section 1201 demonstrates that it is being used to stifle free speech and scientific research. The lawsuit against 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten’s team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journalists, publishers, scientists, students, programmers, and members of the public.

    The DMCA Jeopardizes Fair Use.

    By banning all acts of circumvention, and all technologies and tools that can be used for circumvention, the DMCA grants to copyright owners the power to unilaterally eliminate the public’s fair use rights. Already, the movie industry’s use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers’ ability to make legitimate, personal-­‐use copies of movies they have purchased.

    The DMCA Impedes Competition and Innovation.

    Rather than focusing on pirates, some have wielded the DMCA to hinder legitimate competitors. For example, the DMCA has been used to block aftermarket competition in laser printer toner cartridges, garage door openers, videogame console accessories, and computer maintenance1 services. Similarly, Apple has used the DMCA to tie its iPhone devices to Apple’s own software and services.

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  • lukecyca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    for personal use

    A key part of his argument is that these laws should be repealed so that small companies could legally develop hacks and alternatives. For example a startup could develop (and support) an alternative firmware for John Deere tractors, which they sell to independent tractor repair shops around the world, creating more competition, more options, and cheaper/better services to end users. The “for personal use” version of that is fine for us hobbyists, but prevents similar freedoms from being accessible to regular people.

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    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We should emphasize the John Deere tractor thing to reach a broader audience.

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    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I fully get that point, and it would be pretty neat if we managed to pull that through from a legislative standpoint. I just wish he would stick to the facts more. Essentially making the argument you make in your last sentence.

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  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’re totally misunderstanding. Cory’s talking about economic damage, not personal jailbreaking.

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    • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I understand that perfectly well. It unfortunately doesn't change the fact that he is distorting the facts.

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  LTT	Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel
  NAS	Network-Attached Storage
  VPN	Virtual Private Network

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