How many times have we seen popular games removed from Steam because of music licensing issues?
Hell, I had a movie I bought a billion years ago on DVD that I ripped to my machine as part of my digitalization effort, the physical media didn’t make it in my second to last move.
I then decided to move everything to h.265 to shrink my capacity needs and this one was eaten by the transcoder. I went to go BUY it again, can’t find it anywhere. Went to stream? Nowhere.
You telling me I’m gonna trust these rat fucks? No chance.
They’re just here to bleed us dry, the medium is only part that’s negotiable to them.
I was recently looking for a song on Spotify that I remembered enjoying, what must’ve been 10 year ago. It had been removed from Spotify (greyed out in a playlist) but I sure as shit found it quickly on YouTube, uploaded by some random person.
I’m no longer really surprised at this - it just makes me sad. We’re literally trying to burn down the library of Alexandria to raise the price of books.
Copyright law is a blight upon the world in its current form, and unless people take a stand it’ll rot the beauty from the net and hold humanity back.
If they can’t ban guns, they should ban conservatives instead. Problem solved.
Friendly Reminder: It is perfectly legal to discriminate based on political affiliation. Do your part to help fight conservatism by excluding conservatives in your daily life. It is not appropriate to conduct business or keep relationships with such people.
I’ve said it many times: I think that copyright for all published art should extend for exactly one year after it’s publication then become public domain. For almost ALL media, the first year is the time in which it make over 90% of its money. If you haven’t turned a profit, or at least broken even, by then then you aren’t going to.
After tjay I don’t see why you should be entitles to royalties from every sale, especially with our modern system of mass distribution.
As someone in the industry that makes and releases music, I can say that there are many problems with copyright laws, but this is 100% not the way to solve it.
Meh, I would be fine with the original copyright laws. 30 years that was it. It allowed the creator to make a career off of being creative, but didn’t allow Disney to keep Mickey.
NEW YORK, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried is heading to jail after a U.S judge on Friday revoked his bail, finding probable cause that the indicted founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange tampered with witnesses at least twice.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s decision to jail the 31-year-old former billionaire ahead of his Oct. 2 fraud trial over FTX’s November 2022 collapse came after prosecutors said he had “crossed a line” by sharing private writings by former romantic partner Caroline Ellison with a New York Times reporter.
Bankman-Fried, who has pleaded not guilty, sat with his shoulders hunched, leaning forward on the table and fidgeting with a Post-It note as the judge order him detained.
Bankman-Fried rode a boom in the value of bitcoin and other digital assets to build a net worth of an estimated $26 billion and become an influential political donor in the United States, but FTX’s collapse wiped out his fortune.
Kaplan said Bankman-Fried’s decision to show Ellison’s writings to the Times reporter during an in-person meeting, rather than in an electronic message that could have been monitored by prosecutors, suggested malign intent.
Many defendants awaiting trial in New York City are held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, which has been plagued by persistent staffing shortages, power outages and reports of maggots appearing in inmates’ food.
Internet Archive makes me feel like a visit to an old section of a library that noone visited for a while every time I go there.
It’s a shame that the US have at the same time people who treasure the need for preservation of culture and Civilization, and people who would sell their own mothers for the shareholder’s profit.
If they don’t move to a country with more logical copyright laws, I’m afraid we ll lose the too.
Dammit, 2023 is a year the Internet is gone to hell by the corpos faster than I can remember
If the virus could mutate AIs, why couldn’t it mutate ICE and just fuck up the black wall, too? Thing was designed to break into Datafortresses. Those would have had the strongest ICE to exist before the Blackwall, and what a virus would need to cut past anyway.
the only way to stop him is throw him in jail for contempt which Trump knows they’ll never do— so he’ll never stop. The worst the court has the guts to do to him I stop fine him, and that only means his dumbass followers will be directly (further) funding the witness tampering/harassment and incitements to violence.
Internet Archive is already losing to the book publishing assholes, so they’re probably going to lose this one, sadly.
“Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday”
They’re all dead. Mind as well name the executive assholes who’re still profiting off of their names by making compilation sets and all that shit. It’d be more accurate. They’re never going to see money again so what gives?
The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and “face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.”
Where the artists aren’t paid as well, most profits go to, not surprisingly, asshats in suits. Spotify has had a history of taking down songs and albums and artists. So that claim about how they’ll never face danger is bullshit.
While we’re at it, there was a report recently about 87% of commercially released games are lost because of the poor preservation efforts by actual video game companies. Book publishing companies are no different. Show and Movie productions are no different. The music industry is no different, they all have a fair bit of lost media because they suck as preservation while pirates have proven to be efficient at it.
This is going to set a bad chain reaction down the road. Soon, Microsoft is going to be like “HAY! GET RID OF ALL OF THOSE OLD OPERATING SYSTEMS OF OURS!” and sue the internet archive. Then, video game companies will be like “HAY! GET RID OF ALL OF THOSE ISOS AND ROMS OF OUR GAMES!” and sue Internet Archive.
And then Internet Archive will not have the finances to combat all lawsuits before folding up suit. Erasing any attempt that there was in archiving history.
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