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  • How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU?

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  • You are talking about the DSA.

    There is no reason to believe that future social media bans will have such exceptions. VDL said explicitly that the app means that there are "no more excuses".

    The DSA excludes small platforms from some rules, so as not to overwhelm start-ups with bureaucracy. Clearly, such considerations are to be neutralized in the future.

  • Flat

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  • In flat world, there is such a thing as a free launch.

  • Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store

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  • Why not?

  • Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store

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  • After the recent judgments against Meta, it was predicted that there would be a crackdown on mental health topics. DDLC has been connected to a suicide in the UK.

  • Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing

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  • Appearances can be something

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  • It's really only a minority, or else the world would not work. Think how the theory of evolution gained mainstream acceptance, despite resistance by fanatics who had support by society,

  • Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing

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  • Appearances can be something

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  • (In case someone has been living under a rock in the last 48 hours. Anthropic's new model "Mythos" has been finding a lot of new vulnerabilities. This is about patching one.)

  • Crying is a free action

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  • Tears of joy, no doubt. No wait. Java...

  • AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

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  • They are just making it up. It's just nonsense.

    These copyright claims are governed by the DMCA in the US. Platforms like Youtube that allow User Generated Content have a safe harbor provision. They are usually not liable for content that users post. Without that, the internet as we know it would be hard to imagine. But when someone reports a copyright violation, the platform must take it down, or else becomes liable. Then it could be sued for damages, as if the platform had pirated the content.

    Posters can submit a DMCA counter-notice. At that point, the copyright owner must either sue the poster, or the content goes back up (within 14 days). It is quite suspicious, that there is no mention of that in the OP.

    However, copyright owners have sued Youtube, alleging that they did not do enough to take down pirated content. This did not go so well for Youtube. Eventually they were forced to create "Content ID". Owners register and upload their content. Youtube continuously scans for that content in videos posted by users. What happens when there is a match depends on the assumed owner. They can choose to have it taken down, or to get the ad money, for example. SNAFUs are pretty common, especially with classical music. It also has no regard for Fair Use, but content owners hate that anyway.

  • AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

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  • Filing lots of legal cases for harassment is an established tactic (see SLAPP).

    Using copyright claims to fleece people is also an established method, or rather several methods. People make fraudulent claims eg on youtube to get the ad money. Or they go a legal route and put a lot of copyrighted material out there, and sue anyone they can ("copyright trolls").

    It would rarely work against the likes of Paramount. Such companies have big bureaucracies to clear the rights. And legal departments to fight in court. Usually, this is about fleecing small companies or individuals, for whom it is cheaper to pay you off, than to go to court.

    Anyway, mind that the OP contains legal disinformation. Better get your info from somewhere else.

  • Copyright Industry Continues Its Efforts To Ban VPNs

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  • That made sense at a time when media was physical and could be stopped at the border. There are no border posts in the internet.

    So now we could either a) make the copyright industry draw up new licenses that make sense for the internet, or b) make everyone else spend billions to create and suffer border posts in the internet.

  • Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France

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  • Amazingly stupid it may be, but it is also a typical decision. This is how copyright rolls in Europe.

    Over the last few years, the media has managed to create this narrative where a few US companies make billions by violating the rights of Europeans and stealing their data. This case was US companies against European data owners. Social media is full of people accounts calling for more law enforcement to fight back. Well, here you go.

  • Google, Cloudflare, Cisco Lose Pirate Site DNS Blocking Appeal in France

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  • So you know where this is going.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Speaking of which. Attie is supposed to enable anyone to create this sort of thing, although Claude Code is way overkill for the examples given.

  • Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next

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  • You misunderstand. They are not exempt at all. F-Droid is exempt from collecting their identities.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • The people in these AI hate mobs are generally the opposite of tech-savvy. You'd have to know what weird ideas they have about this.

  • Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

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  • Android's new developer verification rollout begins, sideloading changes are next

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  • I doubt it. EU regulations demand all manner of documentation, including who supplied software. Tech companies should also protect users and enforce "our" laws, which means a lot of surveillance.

    App stores already have to do developer verification, under the celebrated DMA.

    There's a pro-business loophole meant to keep bureaucracy low. Very small companies are exempted. It's kind of ironic, because Lemmy usually hates this kind of pro-business anti-regulation thing. To be fair, using this loophole to shield devs, as F-Droid wants, is an abuse. It's only meant to allow small companies to grow until they have the resources to handle the verification.