Having failed to pass SOPA, they are trying again, and what they have learned from last time is: this time, keep a tighter lid on the details of the bill until after it passes
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/07/trans_pacific_partnership_agreement_tpp_could_radically_alter_intellectual_property_law.html
The only thing that I knew with certainty was that I didn’t know much about what was happening in the TPP negotiations, and therefore I couldn’t offer much in the way of substantive questions and input, which was the point that I wanted to make to the negotiators. Other than “cleared advisors”—primarily industry representatives—no one outside the inner circle knows what is currently being negotiated in TPP. Most members of Congress do not even know what is in TPP. Indeed, the last publicly available text of TPP’s intellectual property chapter is a leaked version dated Feb. 10, 2011. Nonetheless, the goal of the “stakeholder engagement event,” as the TPP “Welcome Stakeholders!” packet explained, was to provide an “open and productive forum.” Yet the public knows more about the aggregate numbers of nuclear warheads the United States and Russia have deployed on intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty than it does about U.S. negotiating positions in TPP. Thus, on “openness,” the TPP negotiators and USTR have failed.
― Milton Parker, Monday, 30 July 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Keep it up guys, it just brings the day we burn your office buildings down with you inside that much closer.
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
The NASA Curiosity team had to overcome many obstacles to land their robot safely on the surface of the Red Planet. But one obstacle they were probably not expecting to encounter was an accusation of copyright infringement.The American space agency has been posting videos related to the Curiosity mission on its official YouTube page. But the Motherboard blog noticed that one of the videos had disappeared. In its place was the message "This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."NASA is a federal agency, and by law, works of the federal government are in the public domain. And in any event, it's hard to see how Scripps could own footage of NASA scientists celebrating Curiosity's successful landing in their own control room. So NASA complained to YouTube, and the video was restored within a few hours.“We apologize for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view a NASA clip early Monday morning," a Scripps spokesman told Motherboard. "We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly as possible to make the video viewable again, and we’ve adjusted our workflow processes to remedy the situation in future.”Mistakes happen. But "accidents" like this have become disturbingly common. Last month, an overzealous music publisher took down videos of Barack Obama singing a line from one of its songs (then, as now, YouTube eventually reviewed and reversed the takedown).A NASA spokesman says that its content gets erroneously taken down about once a month. They've been asking YouTube to fix the problem but "it hasn't helped much." If a prominent federal agency like NASA struggles with unfair takedowns, what hope do the rest of us have of getting YouTube's attention when our videos are taken down?http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/as-curiosity-touches-down-on-mars-video-is-taken-down-from-youtube/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
The American space agency has been posting videos related to the Curiosity mission on its official YouTube page. But the Motherboard blog noticed that one of the videos had disappeared. In its place was the message "This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds."
NASA is a federal agency, and by law, works of the federal government are in the public domain. And in any event, it's hard to see how Scripps could own footage of NASA scientists celebrating Curiosity's successful landing in their own control room. So NASA complained to YouTube, and the video was restored within a few hours.
“We apologize for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view a NASA clip early Monday morning," a Scripps spokesman told Motherboard. "We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly as possible to make the video viewable again, and we’ve adjusted our workflow processes to remedy the situation in future.”
Mistakes happen. But "accidents" like this have become disturbingly common. Last month, an overzealous music publisher took down videos of Barack Obama singing a line from one of its songs (then, as now, YouTube eventually reviewed and reversed the takedown).
A NASA spokesman says that its content gets erroneously taken down about once a month. They've been asking YouTube to fix the problem but "it hasn't helped much." If a prominent federal agency like NASA struggles with unfair takedowns, what hope do the rest of us have of getting YouTube's attention when our videos are taken down?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/as-curiosity-touches-down-on-mars-video-is-taken-down-from-youtube/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://torrentfreak.com/demonoid-busted-as-a-gift-to-the-united-states-government-120806/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
=(
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
I noticed the green one wasn't working lately. So sad to see it go. RIP
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
no big deal it'll be back soon
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
loving the comments on that torrentfreak article
PRIVACY is priceless to me 11 minutes agoUkraine is a U$ slave-colony since at least 2004, they just love being slaves obeing worse-than-nazi U$ orders like they loved killing jews for the germans in the 40's.And also, Russia isn't any better now than it was in 1980, it's even worse.
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, fuck that ukraine that is part of the usa and also russia
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
torrent community entitlement is probably the worst entitlement going atm
― undermikey: bidness (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
obeing
Thought this was some new weird anti-Obama word for a minute.
― Blind, Pregnant, Gay, Royal (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
obeyma
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
Well!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57521208-93/new-zealand-pm-apologizes-to-kim-dotcom-case-unraveling/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Clearly they did not take any lessons from the Americans by finding a lawyer to tell them spying was legal before doing it, and also not apologizing.
Basically what I'm saying is that they should have just taken Kim Dotcom out with a drone.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
LaMonte Young would've wasted him.
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 27 September 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
"Conrad. Tony Conrad."
*BA-DA-BA-DAAAA-BA-DA-DA*
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Wouldn't it just be *BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...*
― Half Jaglom Half Winkler (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 28 September 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
NZ Herald reporting on this mess is double-plus next level: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10837683
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
Pir@te B@y has been down for a day or two.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/liveuniverse-owes-music-publishers-66-million-for,86629
― Mordy, Friday, 12 October 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
chasing that final dollar
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
''who knew that posting lyrics online was illegal?'' doesn't everybody know lyrics are copywritten?
― zvookster, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait 'til rapgenius gets hit tbh
― zvookster, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
a $6.6 million default judgment on Tuesday for posting the lyrics to 528 songs
That's $12,500 for lyrics to a each song.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
Alleged AT&T training doc:http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/13/atandt-training-document-piracy/
― dow, Sunday, 14 October 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/18/tech/web/copyright-alert-system/index.html?ctp=1
― sleeve, Monday, 22 October 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
i don't understand the strategy. is it to ramp up annoyances to make it more costly to pirates, without having to go all the way to turning off their service (thus losing customers) or suing them (costing money, taking time)?
― j., Monday, 22 October 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
i figure they think a large percentage of casual pirates will be scared straight just by getting a warning
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
just dont use public trackrse
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 22 October 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A9y1x4vCYAADw4K.png
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
how do u copyright a man's dream
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 04:36 (eleven years ago) link
You buy the dream's IPR.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/emi-strikes-deal-with-martin-luther-king-jr-estate/
― BANJOS ARE ALWAYS RACIST (onimo), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
go king you got keep it up lav ya
― BANJOS ARE ALWAYS RACIST (onimo), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
got something in my mediafire account saying my own EP is copyrighted and cannot be shared. sent them an angry email. :|
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 January 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
they're just trying to protect you from yourself.
― tylerw, Sunday, 6 January 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
Lol!
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Sunday, 6 January 2013 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
so they say there was a copyright claim on one of my tracks by an electro-house act called Kinky Board, who I'd never even heard of. the track in question didn't even use any samples of any sort, just soft-synths and copyright-free drum patches, so I have no idea why they're even bothering me with this shit.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 10:40 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Q-g0e1HNM
― said the brohaim to the cochise (how's life), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
Mediafire links have been going down a lot lately. Is anything up with that?
― future kendricks (longneck), Friday, 11 January 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
They're now the #1 service to monitor, I guess? Closest thing to a MU replacement?
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Friday, 11 January 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
mediafire's been got to. most links i've looked at recently is down and provides you with a link to purchase the same or similar files from amazon.com et al. this is particularly frustrating with out-of-print albums, where they'll like, link to a greatest hits album where you can find one song from the oop album.
― how's life, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I also had an unreleased album by an obscure artist who never got a release date and an old mixtape, both early-mid 2000s era that I was hosting and were taken down too, but I didn't contest them. I don't see who it profits to take those down, though. It's not like anyone was making money off of either in the first place.
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
They still haven't gotten back to me about my protest of innocence over my own track tho.
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
The funny thing is I had way more egregious bending of copyrights on the account that didn't get flagged, DJ mixes, remixes of popular songs released on major labels, but instead some track that didn't use anyone else's material at all gets flagged. I can't make sense of it.
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
ok, they resolved this issue and the file's no longer flagged
― The Reverend, Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
good to hear!
― how's life, Sunday, 13 January 2013 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the Internet to end government surveillance
https://rt.com/usa/news/kim-dotcom-interview-mega-673/
― am0n, Friday, 25 January 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
man they REALLY crushed these sites didn't they. I haven't been able to find anything on mediafire, rapidshare etc for months now. oh well. it was never meant to last anyway. back to waiting years to find used vinyl copies of old stuff, I guess.
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Gordon Lightfoot's first album "Lightfoot!" for ex.
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I think there are other reasons that might not be available.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link