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muelltonne

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  • Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain.

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  • Read the article - in this case the problem is YouTube not reacting to the DMCA counterclaim.

    he promptly sent YouTube a counter-notice, as the DMCA contemplates, and assumed that would the end of the matter. After all, he reasoned, Shakespeare is in the public domain, and besides, Shakespeare by the Seas assured him that it had not relied on Coallier’s claimed version of the Shakespeare plays in crafting the script for its performances; indeed, Shakespeare by the Sea had never heard of Coallier or seen his supposed copyrighted versions of Shakespeare, and hence could not have copied them. Even so, YouTube, ignoring the DMCA’s procedures, refused to honor his counter-notice or even forward the notice to Coallier so that Coallier could file suit for copyright infringement. Instead, it issued a copyright strike against Underwood’s channel and told him that he would have to work things out with Coallier.

    All they had to do was to (and are legally required to do) is forwarding that counterclaim and then restore the content. Then the crazy dude claiming to own the copyrights to Shakespeare could try to sue the uploader. A sane legal system should throw out that quickly.

    But instead YouTube didn't forward that message, did issue its own copyright strike and might ban your account if you get too many of those strikes and then told them to negotiate with some nutcase.

  • Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?

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  • Actually - yes, some models are really unsafe. There are "reverse peephole viewers" out there that allow people to, well, view into your apartement. And some models are just screwed together, so a burglar can unscrew them from the outside and then try to push down your handle via the hole.

  • The End of an Era: Exploring the Final Sony MiniDisc Walkman Models

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  • Never heard of mini disk storage drives, but now I have to search if there is one that works on modern computers.

  • Votes for billionaires, shocked when billionaires act like billionaires

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  • Can you explain what you mean with "censorship in online spaces from the left"? As far as I know, most of our digital infrastructure is in the hand of MAGA right wing billionaires (X, Facebook, Instagram) and other people who are not really known as left (Reddit, TikTok, Google/YouTube). Most of our big social networks are not doing any left wing censorship. YouTube will demonitize you when you swear enough, because advertisers don't like that. Musk will censor you when you disagree with his politics. Trump will fire you if you mention certain words. But that is right wing censorship. So where are those spaces where the left is censoring everything that are pushing people to vote for the right?

  • ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off

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  • Those small balcony systems pay for them here in Germany at ~35 Cents/kWh in a few months. Even if your power bill is 7x cheaper, they will pay for themselves easily.

  • ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off

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  • And does this have anything to do with generating power from solar panels on your own balcony?

  • Do you know Fediverse bots/accounts boosting posts in other languages than English?

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  • Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time

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  • The fediverse offers a noncommercial alternative and that can be a draw. A "normal" Reddit user might not want to join us, but there will be users fed up with all the ads on Reddit, some of Reddits policies, tolerance of nazis and abuse and so on. Mastodon always was in the shadow of Twitter, a nice, but blew up when Musk started to destroy it. It offered a way out and that is worthwhile. And if Zuckerberg is starting to transform Instagram into a rightwing horror show, Pixelfed is there as an alternative. And if you want out of YouTube, PeerTube is working and ready for you.

  • Pixelfed & Loops Kickstarter Campaign Just Launched

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  • This shows how unfair the tech landscape is. The Kickstarter is currently at 45000$. Meta & Co generate that in seconds through their advertising or some billionaire gains that through investments in under a second.

  • For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

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  • Never use a "for-profit adblocker". Ublock Origin is free, open source and therefore won't fuck you over. You can guess where this "profit" is coming from when you're not paying for your "for-profit" adblocker

  • Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says

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  • That also does mean that photobucket is training their fucking AI on my old account, which is full of Memes and Gifs I totally don't have the copyright to. Some of them might even be from Disney movies.

  • Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus

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  • Yeah, I really don't understand why people are so confused. From a practical perspective your username is username@instance.tld and that's it. You're on some server and can simply follow that guy@mastodon.social and you will see the posts.

  • Elon Musk's X is losing users in the U.S., UK, and EU. X's own data proves it.

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  • Here is the data they are forced to report to the EU:

    Logged In X Users 61.8M Logged Out Guests 49.6M Total 111.4M

    https://transparency.x.com/en/reports/amars-in-the-eu/amars-in-the-eu-aug-24

    "Logged out Guests" is everyone who gets linked to a thread, who was send an video on Twitter and so on. And also take a look at the definition of the logged in users:

    EU Active Recipients of the Service - Average between August 1st 2023 - January 31 2024

    So you do count as active EU user if you have logged in between August and January with an IP address from the EU. That should even include some tourists.

  • You should be using an RSS reader.

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  • Kind of not what you're looking for, but use rss2email to send everything as a mail to a mail address.