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Cory Doctorow Talks About Fighting the DMCA (2 Videos)
Wikipedia says, 'Cory Efram Doctorow (/kri dktro/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and post-scarcity economics.' Timothy Lord sat down with Cory at the O'Reilly Solid Conference and asked him about the DMCA and how the fight against it is going. Due to management-imposed restraints on video lengths, we broke the ~10 minute interview into two parts, both attached to this paragraph. The transcript covers both videos, so it's your choice: view, read or listen to as much of this interview as you like.
I was getting tired of that scrotum-looking balloon on the front page all the time.
The honest version of the answer to that would be very short. "We lost."
"Due to management-imposed restraints on video lengths, we broke the ~10 minute interview into two parts,"
slashdot is a hollow shell of it's former glory of getting massive numbers of internet sites to run out of file space and crash. today we have facebook and it's ministry of doom telling people what to pay 30000000% markup of original price of 1 red cent. with all the ads carefully curated from the browsing history of the users.
Well, apologies for not spotting that. I allowed my automatic assumption that there was no possible good reason for doing this to lead me to not checking the text.
That said, I still can't see any good reason for doing this. "Management-imposed restraints" could mean anything. Does "management" think two 5 minute videos costs less in bandwidth than one 10 minute video?
Was "management" perhaps previously in charge of disposable razor marketing?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
You need new management. Who can we email on your behalf to explain what a foolish idea it is? Also, why won't the second video show without flash, but the first one is fine without it?
Given at least a moments thought to audio quality, you know with this being an interview and all.
Fuck off bellend.
That said, I still can't see any good reason for doing this. "Management-imposed restraints" could mean anything.
Well, "management-imposed restraints" doesn't actually answer the question of why, so your question wasn't unreasonable.
Based on the trajectory of Slashdot after the Dice takeover, though, presumably the real answer for "why" is "because our managers are total morons."
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
If I'd never written, composed, or painted anything worth shit
You probably haven't.
Doctor may not be a top-tier writer, but at least people read his stuff.
Sometimes they even pay him for it.
windows 3.11 for work groups could only record 30 seconds worth of music in pcm format with the built in tools.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
"Due to management-imposed restraints on video lengths, we broke the ~10 minute interview into two parts,"
Wait, this site has management?
...liberalising copyright laws...
Stealing other people's shit.
The link didn't take me to the video and when I found the link to it the transcript was nowhere to be seen. I'm on mobile, if that has anything to do with it.
Tim just put the "let's have the ability to attach two or more HTML5 video to one text block" on the developers' work request list. It'll happen. When? Um.... "Soon." This is yet another case where the people who actually work on the site agree with readers -- which we do 90% of the time. Believe it or not, our management is gradually learning that the people who work on the site know a thing or two. The Beta debacle was great training for them. Gawd, that thing was awful...
As for video length restrictions: A spreadsheet manager looks at video costs and sees that a majority of people jump off of a video within 3 minutes. So, asks the spreadsheet manager, why would we ever want to have longer videos? Reality = people not interested in that video or topic watch 3 minutes, while people interested in the topic or interviewee stick around for 10, 15, 30, even 60 minutes. What Tim and I want is 3-minute (or so) summary videos for the uninterested, followed by full-length ones for those who are interested. At least, when the topic is interesting to at least some readers, we now can (and generally do) provide a transcript that covers the full, uncut video interview for you.
Believe me, we appreciate questions and criticism. We read what you have to say. Like about the cartoon-balloon m,ain page comment counts. I can't say that I personally care much about them one way or another, but I think Tim or one of the other guys brought them up in a meeting to which I was not invited -- because I rarely am since I'm retired and I just work part-time editing /. videos for hourly pay to supplement my Social Security. Thinking of which, I have some howto videos to edit for another site, so I'd better break off here and go do that.
I am not in love with Slashdot on Android. "It needs work," is a gentle way to say what I think of it.
I don't see the transcript on my phone, either. Thanks for reminding me about that. I'll pass it up the chain.
Only if you're utterly an utter failure at critical thinking. Liberalizing alone does not give any hint at the extent, which can be as simple as preventing them from lasting as long as they do, and allowing consumers to do modifications, and backing up unhindered (as well as the ability to play media on whatever device they want unhindered) - which is a far cry from that in any sense of the word *
* purposefully excluding the fact that copyright infringement =/= theft legally, and the opinion that the two should stay separate on all levels, because of how much of a tangent I risk going off of by touching that can of worms.
If you believe in privacy, and believe you have "nothing to hide" at the same time, you're a goddammed idiot
Someone took the time to do a phonetic transcription of his name and your lack of Unicode-Fu went and messed it up :(
Rob answered above. Spreadsheet-based managers say "Average view is 3 minutes".
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Thanks for replying. It's reassuring to hear that there are actual humans making decisions with rational thought behind them, even if I don't agree with the decisions.
Cory Efram Doctorow (/kri dktro/; born July 17, 1971): The "Efram" is silent.
I gave up on it long ago, the Boing Boing Nazis censor the living crap out of anyone who doesn't worship them and agree with everything they say. I'm fairly left leaning, and they make me look like [insert conservative nutjob], people like Xeni Jardin and her pretentious bs make me barf.
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
Fuck him and Fuck his shitty BoingBoing site full of SJWs who harass people and beg for money. What a piece of shit his site turned into. Fuck that guy and everything he REALLY stands for (as opposed to the popular shit he proclaims to stand for to befriend geeks).
And while we're at it, Fuck Xeni "no, seriously, I'm totally 29 and not nearing 60" Jardin and her shitty fluff pieces.
Talk about backwards reasoning.
If they made the movies only 1 minute long, average view would be 1 minute.
According to Vine, no view is ever longer than 7 seconds.
Why are cinema films longer than 3 minutes? Aren't all views equally average?
Was there any official statement on ditching Beta?
I think I might have missed the celebration party.
Cory Doctorow - when I see this I want to say Core E Doctor Oh
kri dktro - when I see this I want to say Cree Dick Trow
Is his name actually pronounced Cree Dick Trow or do I not know how to read the pronunciation helper?
Fuck this bullshit poser and his deliberately thick-thick-thick fake hipster glasses. Doctorow is an asshole that started off on Boing Boing, and then decided to fuck that site all to hell and back in the pursuit of money. He's a poser fucktard who rarely has anything even remotely interesting to say.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I'm glad to see a lot of./ers agree with me on this.
This guy is the front man for every irrelevant "tech blogger" and "html programmer" out there. The fucking idea we need the self-aggrandizing idiot giving speeches on the necessity of open source, lack of diversity/women "in tech" (will facts and statistics every trump feelings?), gamergate "worse then isis" rhetoric (just read his dogshit on BB), a male feminist (ha) and the cherry on the top is he is a self-styled writer with no technical background.
In short he EPITOMIZES everything wrong with the internet right now. Fucking everything. And if we let douchebags like him co-opt what we've accomplished for decades well, quite frankly, we've already lost. I mean jesusfuckingchrist he works at the EFF now!
And Cory if you read this, and I bet you will you narcissistic twit, fuck you, you don't speak for me and you sure as holy hell don't represent me. Our interests do NOT align. I've been writing code for roughly two decades, you sell shitty books and get paid for speaking engagements regurgitating things you don't understand.
And everyone else, think I'm just ranting? Go look at this http://craphound.com/category/novels/ and read the synopsis on each. Do yourself a favour, take a few minutes and just do it.
Transcript on mobile, please, even if it's just a link to a stand alone text file.
From the department of people bored in the doctor's office lobby, but don't want to play a video on their phones.
Spreadsheet-based managers say "Average view is 3 minutes".
What use is that statistic? So the average view is 3 minutes. Why does that mean videos shouldn't be over X minutes long?
Is it to stop the staff wasting time shooting and editing videos that are too long? If so, that idea hasn't worked at all, because we've still got 10 minutes of video to go with this article, just pointlessly broken up into two videos.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.