floquant
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- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
You’re right, I apologize, my use of “infringing copyright” was too loose there. What I meant in that context is more like “stealing and then re-selling the identity and essence of every human creation to ever be made into ones and zeros”
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
Welcome to my point: there’s no such thing. You always have to go through national courts, with reasons that sometimes defeat logic: if you hold copyright in several countries, you can pretty much pick and choose the legislature that is most advantageous to your case. Take this recent one: an Icelandic company sued an Icelandic artist for slander… In UK court. The “legal” basis was that the website was hosted on a .co.uk domain, but I’m sure that the strict UK slander laws and astronomical costs of its courts had nothing to do with it. Not a copyright case, I know, but I think it’s a good example of how laws and jurisdictions get fundamentally twisted when applied to the Internet. I think anyone can agree that it should’ve been settled in an Icelandic court.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
Yeah, no. The ICJ handles disputes between nations. It has literally nothing to do with copyright.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
Because they’re getting punished for providing books to people, while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it. As always, the point isn’t author’s rights, it’s money.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
Copyright laws are agreed on at a international level But every country then implements them in different ways, for example duration and what constitutes “fair use”. There even is a international copyright court No there isn’t. Source?
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
It’s not about breaking the law, what I’m saying is that copyright laws (but actually, any law) just plain doesn’t make sense when you try to apply it to the Internet, because the internet is not a national entity, and the nature of its interactions are fundamentally different from anything else that came before it. Because which country’s laws should apply when interacting across continents? If I am in country A, and I’m interacting with you, a resident of country B, on a platform that is owned by a company registered in country C, hosting their servers in country D, who should have authority to regulate this interaction? Simply put, I don’t give a fuck (pardon my french) about what the US Copyright Office has to say about anything, since I’m not a US citizen nor resident.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
Yes, I am aware of what they do. And I am of the opinion that spreading access to knowledge is vastly more important than copyright laws made decades before the internet was a thing. Especially when is comes to US copyright laws being forced upon the rest of the world.
They already were not “giving away” books but doing “digital lending” where DRM-protected copies were given to one user at a time, which is absolutely nonsensical in the digital age.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 1 month ago:
Boo to standing up for things!
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
Point being…?
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
It is absolutely not, but I understand it’s easy to lose sense of scale when you go into billions territory.
- Comment on McDonald's executives admit diners think prices are too high, say they're working to create value 3 months ago:
“Create value”
God. Please just fucking stop. What value do they want to “create”? It’s shitty food. Its “value” is in being cheap.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
which I would have never learned to do.
it knows how to code
Please take a step back and reconsider what you think your mind can do vs what LLMs can. The ability to understand is what separates us from machines, at least for now.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
They are doing something about carbon emissions. Emitting more of it.
- Comment on Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" 3 months ago:
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You can’t and shouldn’t expect things to change thanks to the current ruling class
- Comment on Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" 4 months ago:
First step, make lobbying illegal ffs
- Comment on MSI warranty claim database was publicly accessible via Google 4 months ago:
Bad analogy imho. That would be like going in a mall, entering a store, and being told that it’s actually a house and you’re trespassing
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Contributing by updating roads and POIs is fairly straightforward and can be pretty fun ^^ openstreetmaps.org/edit
- Comment on Sharp rise in use of high-strength vapes, research shows 5 months ago:
Who has ever said nicotine is not addictive? Lol