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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.
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,"
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?
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?
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?
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
I was wondering how they expected us to pronounce such long sequences of consonants. Of course, even the part that's left is wrong -- alveolar trills are not a part of English.
For those of us familiar with X-SAMPA, I might render it /'kAr\i 'dAk.tr\=.oU/.
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.
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...
^^^^ THIS times a billion.
Fuck him and his simpering SJW fan club who will breathlesssly suck up anything this fucking asswipe has to say.
Oh, if only I had mod points, they'd be yours. Fuck Cory Doctorow, that fucking poser pukebag.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
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.