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Pluralistic: Apple screwed us on right to repair (again)
When people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When people don't buy new devices, Apple doesn't sell them new devices.
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Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Inspired By It. And That Includes AI.
There’s no way to write this article without some people yelling angrily at me, so I’m just going to highlight that point up front: many, many people are going to disagree with this article, and I’…
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Spotify's new royalty payment update hurts indie musicians even more than before
Every sub-1,000 stream will still generate revenue for the company — but now, that revenue will not be shared.
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Plagiarism and You(Tube)
A long watch, but fascinating. Another side of the enshittification of youtube that is happening right now.
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The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office Again That Copyright Law Has No Business Obstructing AI Training
A little over a month ago we told the Copyright Office in a comment that there was no role for copyright law to play when it comes to training AI systems. In fact, on the whole there’s little for c…
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Thousands of U.S. copyrighted works from 1928 are entering the public domain
D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Virginia Woolf's Orlando and W.E.B. Du Bois' Dark Princess are among the works entering the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024.
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Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past
Back in 2019 we noted how the streaming sector risked driving consumers back to piracy if they didn’t heed the lessons of the past. We explored how the rush to raise rates, nickel-and-dime us…
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Copyright Remains A Complete Mess: A Tale In Two Stories
Here are two separate stories regarding the mess that is modern copyright law, that is now mostly “mediated” by companies that half-ass randomly deal with things and sometimes do not. While this is…
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Don’t let Big AI fool you: Piracy isn’t a business model
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.
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Google Refuses to Delete Pirate Websites from its Search Results
The copyright industry and Google continues to quibble about online piracy, both in public and behind closed doors. Copyright holders want Google to remove pirate websites from its search results but Google's Eric Schmidt says this is not going to happen. Schmidt stresses that his company is making changes to reduce piracy, but that policing the web and deleting websites goes against Google's philosophy.
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Piracy Collapses As Legal Alternatives Do Their Job
Entertainment industry groups in Norway have spent years lobbying for tougher anti-piracy laws, finally getting their way earlier this month. But with fines and site blocking now on the agenda, an interesting trend has been developing. Quietly behind the scenes music piracy has collapsed to less than a fifth of the level it reached five years ago while movie and TV show downloading has been cut in half.
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Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter
Google has quietly expanded its list of censored search phrases with the addition of music streaming service Grooveshark. The piracy blacklist was introduced to curb copyright infringement and prevents popular keywords from appearing in Google’s Instant and Autocomplete services. On precisely what grounds Google decided to censor Grooveshark is unknown at this point.
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Google Removed 100 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year
Since January 2013 copyright holders have asked Google to remove more than 100,000,000 links to infringing webpages, which is already double the number Google processed for the whole of 2012. The search giant is currently processing an average of 15 million “infringing” links per month. This number appears to be leveling off, but copyright holders are certainly not satisfied yet.
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Dentist who used copyright to silence her patients is on the run
Dr. Makhnevich threatened patients who wrote bad Yelp reviews with lawsuits.
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Pirate Bay founder thinks site should be shut down
Whether you have dabbled in the world of torrents — either to get around aggressive DRM that came with your legally purchased game, because you missed an episode of Game of Thrones and forgot to DVR it, or because you’re all about not paying for stuff — you likely have strong feelings on the matter.
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Dentist who fined customers for bad Yelp reviews goes AWOL
Stacy Makhnevich's lawyers say that after she provoked the Internet's wrath, they haven't seen her for months.
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2,919 Movie Pirates Walk Free as BitTorrent Trolling Scheme Falls Apart
In a first of its kind ruling a federal court in California has thrown out a case against 2,919 alleged movie pirates. The case was initiated by the Swiss-based company Contra Piracy who obtained the..
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Pirates Form Church to Battle Copyright Law That Insults Their Beliefs
With Russia's new anti-piracy law just a few days old, further opposition will be voiced today in a particularly unconventional manner. Following Russia's first Kopimi-inspired wedding yesterday, in which the happy couple exchanged vows and silicon chips, pirates in several areas of the country will today apply to form their own church. Official complaints will then be filed against the new law on the basis that it insults the beliefs that underpin the Kopimist religion.
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France’s $16M Anti-Piracy Agency Has Sent Two Million Warnings, But Only Fined Two People
Anti-piracy agency Hadopi just broke a record. In less than three years, it has sent more than 2 million warning emails for copyright infringement. Warning emails are just the first strike in the “three strike” scheme.
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The Pirate Bay is 10 years old today: ‘We really didn’t think we’d make it this far’
The Pirate Bay, arguably the most resilient file sharing website, was first founded on August 9, 2003, although it didn't launch until September 15, 2003.
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