Say an agent for a copyright owner sends you a thousand messages, three of which are valid DMCA notices and nine hundred ninety-seven of which are messages that look like DMCA notices but are not in fact valid. What's the efficient method to distinguish the valid DMCA notices from the spam?
On the other hand, they ask for a settlement of $10-$20
If that settlement offer is open to all, then let's everybody pirate movies and TV shows that were released decades ago but never made available on DVD, such as Song of the South, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, and Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
B1) instead of watching youtube videos, user watches hulu
I guess the idea is that Hulu Plus would contain far less infringing video than YouTube, leaving T-Mobile less likely to be found liable the way Cox was.
B2) instead of watching youtube videos, user reads cracked articles or watches cable tv or reads a book (less total bandwidth use)
Funny you mention Cracked. For me it's zero mobile bandwidth to read Cracked because I have a script that fetches its RSS feed in the morning after it updates at 9 AM US Eastern time, downloads all new articles, deletes everything on the page that isn't the article, short-circuits the "lazy loading" script to fetch all images now, and constructs a <ref> element to cite this article on a site running MediaWiki. All this downloading happens over cable at home, which has a monthly usage allowance high enough for me to have never exceeded it. This results in a zip file that I put on my mobile reading device and can read even in flight mode.
at one point it was not unusual that the certification fees for certain gatekeepers in the video game space to outstrip an entire indie game's budget.
Did these gatekeepers' names happen to start with MI, NI, and SO, and end with FT, DO, and NY? If so, then there's one persistent Slashdot user who thinks these gatekeepers are the only thing keeping the video game industry from another Crash of 1983. I've collected a list of arguments in favor of such a developer entry barrier. And in any case, a PC release was always a workaround.
And that's probably why YouTube isn't participating at launch, even though YouTube offers 360p and 480p streams: because YouTube is a hotbed of infringement.
But more generally, if I produced a particular video, how can I tell whether I have the right to stream it? For example, if the music I composed for the video turns out to be an accidental infringement, in the sense of "My Sweet Lord" (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music) or "Blurred Lines" (Gaye v. Thicke), I wouldn't have the right to stream it. How can I determine whether this is the case without first being sued and losing?
Suppose my brother needs a bone marrow transplant and I'm the only possible donor. I agree to donate. The doctors kill my brother's bone marrow. I back out of the transplant. My brother dies. I'm completely in the clear, legally.
Interesting. Where can I read about precedents related to legality of taking someone's life by backing out of a previously arranged organ or tissue donation?
I don't consider a fetus to be human life until said fetus has recognizably human brainwaves.
Signals from the hippocampus booting up would set the limit around 17 weeks according to an article by Margaret Sykes.
What it's saying is that a pregnant woman should be allowed to make the choice of whether or not to end that pregnancy without being forced to bring yet another life into this world.
But how can the pregnant woman end the pregnancy without ending the life?
Insurance for what? Let's use the example of health insurance. Before the U.S. mandated health insurance, a move that the Republican Party opposed on grounds that it is SOCIALIST, how should someone with a preexisting condition existing since childhood have found health insurance once he finished school and entered the labor market? Let's also use the example of unemployment insurance. The recession of 2008 has demonstrated that the typical unemployment insurance policy is insufficient to cover structural un- and underemployment during a recession that occurs between two jobless recoveries marked by a shift toward purchase of goods and services from less-developed economies.
stayed in school
Public K-12 school is SOCIALIST, and community college is paywalled despite being also SOCIALIST. What should those who cannot afford school have done?
stayed out of trouble
A lot of people use "staying out of trouble" rhetoric to rationalize victim blaming. By "stayed out of trouble" are you, for example, placing the responsibility on women and adolescent girls to avoid being sexually assaulted and given an STI or pregnancy?
or moved to a country that supports SOCIALISM.
People are trying to do so. The citizens of those countries are expressing their opposition to such immigration.
Go to your public library, install the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on in Firefox, and download from Youtube in glorious 1080p to your hearts content.
Which requires buying a laptop in addition to the desktop computer and mobile devices that you may already own. I don't think extensions like that are available for an iPhone or iPad. And good luck getting your library to let you bring in a desktop computer, even if you can fit it on your bike.
A proper method to limit usage that will actually save the ISP money would be to figure out your 95th percentile peak hours (You know, the same way you're billed by the first tier providers you're supposed to be buying bandwidth from...) and cap usage during that time.
Good luck explaining such a plan to non-technical subscribers who value simplicity over capability.
There is no reason why Netflix couldn't precache content
Of course there is. If Netflix's agreement with its programming licensors doesn't allow precaching, Netflix would be liable for copyright infringement.
If it is a capacity problem they can simply cap the speeds during commercial hours.
It appears that only satellite ISPs do this nowadays. Cellular carriers used to offer "free nights and weekends" back when voice airtime was considered expensive and Sprint was running the "Scooter My Daisyheads" commercial. But in the end, demand-based billing turned out to be too complicated for non-technical subscribers to understand, and subscribers ended up choosing plans with uniform billing because they were simpler.
Perhaps the only way for Seattle to get the hint is if people polish their respective resumes and then move out of Seattle in masses. Then Seattle would have to notice that, as Leia Organa might put it, the city has tightened its grip on the rights of way so much that jobs and property value have slipped through its fingers.
Netflix could save the world obscene amounts of bandwidth (billions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades?) if they'd just allow clients to cache programs.
Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. could save the world obscene amounts of bandwidth (billions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades?) if they'd just allow Netflix to cache programs.
You still need II and III for Machete order (IV V II III VI). This order makes the most narrative sense by skipping the toy commercial that is The Phantom Menace and treating Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith as an extended flashback.
The shaders in MLP:FIM are much simpler than those in The Avengers, no matter whether Emma "Black Widow" Peel is played by Scarlett Johansson or Uma Thurman. Flat-shaded animation has harder edges and less texture than photoreal-shaded animation and thus may need different compression techniques to improve the rate for a given level of distortion.
The U.S. is currently the second largest source of CO2 emissions
Is that true per capita, or only because the United States has the fourth biggest population? The 2013 chart in Wikipedia's article places the United States in what amounts to a statistical tie with Canada, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Kazakhstan (~16 t/p/year), with the United Arab Emirates emitting more (~21 t/p/year). If you think per capita figures are unimportant, that just gives the EU a free pass because it is a confederation of theoretically independent countries rather than a federal state.
and the number one source of CO2 emissions of all time.
I don't know how you define "all time". If Kosovo were to complete its secession from Serbia tomorrow, would it have zero cumulative emissions? A chart covering 1970 through 2013 puts UAE at twice the emissions per capita of the United States over that 44-year period.
"Basic" is defined by the FCC. Some may break the law and call it "limited basic"
From the page you linked: "Cable systems generally are required to offer a 'basic tier' of programming". I'm aware that the page you linked is no substitute for the text of the regulation But the wording presented on this page ("a 'basic tier'") implies to me a requirement that at least one tier of TV service has a channel set and price regulated by local government. Section 76.901(a) defines the "basic service tier" for purposes of the FCC regulation. I don't see how it forbids offering other tiers also branded "basic", as Comcast does, so long as one of them is the FCC-mandated "basic service tier". Or is it time to report Comcast to the FCC?
Nearly all have a sub-$20 basic. And that gets you in the door for Internet, phone and the other services.
But does it get you in the door for Internet with a higher ca^W monthly usage allowance? For example, Comcast has experimented in the past with a 5 GB/mo usage allowance, which I admit is more reminiscent of cellular or satellite Internet service than of typical cable Internet service in the United States. Is there a regulation that forbids cable operators from requiring a subscription to what the regulation calls a "cable programming services tier" (that is, something beyond basic) before the Internet subscriber can increase his monthly usage allowance?
Slashdot Mirror
Say an agent for a copyright owner sends you a thousand messages, three of which are valid DMCA notices and nine hundred ninety-seven of which are messages that look like DMCA notices but are not in fact valid. What's the efficient method to distinguish the valid DMCA notices from the spam?
On the other hand, they ask for a settlement of $10-$20
If that settlement offer is open to all, then let's everybody pirate movies and TV shows that were released decades ago but never made available on DVD, such as Song of the South, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, and Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.
B1) instead of watching youtube videos, user watches hulu
I guess the idea is that Hulu Plus would contain far less infringing video than YouTube, leaving T-Mobile less likely to be found liable the way Cox was.
B2) instead of watching youtube videos, user reads cracked articles or watches cable tv or reads a book (less total bandwidth use)
Funny you mention Cracked. For me it's zero mobile bandwidth to read Cracked because I have a script that fetches its RSS feed in the morning after it updates at 9 AM US Eastern time, downloads all new articles, deletes everything on the page that isn't the article, short-circuits the "lazy loading" script to fetch all images now, and constructs a <ref> element to cite this article on a site running MediaWiki. All this downloading happens over cable at home, which has a monthly usage allowance high enough for me to have never exceeded it. This results in a zip file that I put on my mobile reading device and can read even in flight mode.
at one point it was not unusual that the certification fees for certain gatekeepers in the video game space to outstrip an entire indie game's budget.
Did these gatekeepers' names happen to start with MI, NI, and SO, and end with FT, DO, and NY? If so, then there's one persistent Slashdot user who thinks these gatekeepers are the only thing keeping the video game industry from another Crash of 1983. I've collected a list of arguments in favor of such a developer entry barrier. And in any case, a PC release was always a workaround.
How easy is it for someone who wants to leave America behind to gain a work visa in your "socialist" country?
(Or do you mean FYIGM?)
You having a lawful right to stream the video.
And that's probably why YouTube isn't participating at launch, even though YouTube offers 360p and 480p streams: because YouTube is a hotbed of infringement.
But more generally, if I produced a particular video, how can I tell whether I have the right to stream it? For example, if the music I composed for the video turns out to be an accidental infringement, in the sense of "My Sweet Lord" (Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music) or "Blurred Lines" (Gaye v. Thicke), I wouldn't have the right to stream it. How can I determine whether this is the case without first being sued and losing?
unless Slashdot is now twitter
You'd be surprised at what willyhill found: My god, it's full of socks!
Getting your op-eds accepted is not based on karma as much as writing interesting columns in your journal and submitting them.
Robert Evans of Cracked has also reviewed Dabiq .
Suppose my brother needs a bone marrow transplant and I'm the only possible donor. I agree to donate. The doctors kill my brother's bone marrow. I back out of the transplant. My brother dies. I'm completely in the clear, legally.
Interesting. Where can I read about precedents related to legality of taking someone's life by backing out of a previously arranged organ or tissue donation?
I don't consider a fetus to be human life until said fetus has recognizably human brainwaves.
Signals from the hippocampus booting up would set the limit around 17 weeks according to an article by Margaret Sykes.
Before you invest, you need to have some money to invest. Where does one come across that?
Would you actually say that we have more order and civility in our cities than we did 60 years ago?
Yes. AuntieMeme has made a collection of infographics showing that several misery metrics have been declining.
What it's saying is that a pregnant woman should be allowed to make the choice of whether or not to end that pregnancy without being forced to bring yet another life into this world.
But how can the pregnant woman end the pregnancy without ending the life?
They should have invested in insurance
Insurance for what? Let's use the example of health insurance. Before the U.S. mandated health insurance, a move that the Republican Party opposed on grounds that it is SOCIALIST, how should someone with a preexisting condition existing since childhood have found health insurance once he finished school and entered the labor market? Let's also use the example of unemployment insurance. The recession of 2008 has demonstrated that the typical unemployment insurance policy is insufficient to cover structural un- and underemployment during a recession that occurs between two jobless recoveries marked by a shift toward purchase of goods and services from less-developed economies.
stayed in school
Public K-12 school is SOCIALIST, and community college is paywalled despite being also SOCIALIST. What should those who cannot afford school have done?
stayed out of trouble
A lot of people use "staying out of trouble" rhetoric to rationalize victim blaming. By "stayed out of trouble" are you, for example, placing the responsibility on women and adolescent girls to avoid being sexually assaulted and given an STI or pregnancy?
or moved to a country that supports SOCIALISM.
People are trying to do so. The citizens of those countries are expressing their opposition to such immigration.
"Inter-web" pokes fun at non-technical users who are unaware that the Web is a session and presentation layer protocol running on the Internet.
Go to your public library, install the "Video DownloadHelper" add-on in Firefox, and download from Youtube in glorious 1080p to your hearts content.
Which requires buying a laptop in addition to the desktop computer and mobile devices that you may already own. I don't think extensions like that are available for an iPhone or iPad. And good luck getting your library to let you bring in a desktop computer, even if you can fit it on your bike.
A proper method to limit usage that will actually save the ISP money would be to figure out your 95th percentile peak hours (You know, the same way you're billed by the first tier providers you're supposed to be buying bandwidth from...) and cap usage during that time.
Good luck explaining such a plan to non-technical subscribers who value simplicity over capability.
There is no reason why Netflix couldn't precache content
Of course there is. If Netflix's agreement with its programming licensors doesn't allow precaching, Netflix would be liable for copyright infringement.
If it is a capacity problem they can simply cap the speeds during commercial hours.
It appears that only satellite ISPs do this nowadays. Cellular carriers used to offer "free nights and weekends" back when voice airtime was considered expensive and Sprint was running the "Scooter My Daisyheads" commercial. But in the end, demand-based billing turned out to be too complicated for non-technical subscribers to understand, and subscribers ended up choosing plans with uniform billing because they were simpler.
Perhaps the only way for Seattle to get the hint is if people polish their respective resumes and then move out of Seattle in masses. Then Seattle would have to notice that, as Leia Organa might put it, the city has tightened its grip on the rights of way so much that jobs and property value have slipped through its fingers.
You could move to Kansas City.
That's easier said than done now that ISIL has been successful in sowing anti-immigrant sentiment among U.S. politicians.
Netflix could save the world obscene amounts of bandwidth (billions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades?) if they'd just allow clients to cache programs.
Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. could save the world obscene amounts of bandwidth (billions of dollars in infrastructure upgrades?) if they'd just allow Netflix to cache programs.
You still need II and III for Machete order (IV V II III VI). This order makes the most narrative sense by skipping the toy commercial that is The Phantom Menace and treating Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith as an extended flashback.
The shaders in MLP:FIM are much simpler than those in The Avengers, no matter whether Emma "Black Widow" Peel is played by Scarlett Johansson or Uma Thurman. Flat-shaded animation has harder edges and less texture than photoreal-shaded animation and thus may need different compression techniques to improve the rate for a given level of distortion.
The U.S. is currently the second largest source of CO2 emissions
Is that true per capita, or only because the United States has the fourth biggest population? The 2013 chart in Wikipedia's article places the United States in what amounts to a statistical tie with Canada, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Kazakhstan (~16 t/p/year), with the United Arab Emirates emitting more (~21 t/p/year). If you think per capita figures are unimportant, that just gives the EU a free pass because it is a confederation of theoretically independent countries rather than a federal state.
and the number one source of CO2 emissions of all time.
I don't know how you define "all time". If Kosovo were to complete its secession from Serbia tomorrow, would it have zero cumulative emissions? A chart covering 1970 through 2013 puts UAE at twice the emissions per capita of the United States over that 44-year period.
"Basic" is defined by the FCC. Some may break the law and call it "limited basic"
From the page you linked: "Cable systems generally are required to offer a 'basic tier' of programming".
I'm aware that the page you linked is no substitute for the text of the regulation But the wording presented on this page ("a 'basic tier'") implies to me a requirement that at least one tier of TV service has a channel set and price regulated by local government. Section 76.901(a) defines the "basic service tier" for purposes of the FCC regulation. I don't see how it forbids offering other tiers also branded "basic", as Comcast does, so long as one of them is the FCC-mandated "basic service tier". Or is it time to report Comcast to the FCC?
Nearly all have a sub-$20 basic. And that gets you in the door for Internet, phone and the other services.
But does it get you in the door for Internet with a higher ca^W monthly usage allowance? For example, Comcast has experimented in the past with a 5 GB/mo usage allowance, which I admit is more reminiscent of cellular or satellite Internet service than of typical cable Internet service in the United States. Is there a regulation that forbids cable operators from requiring a subscription to what the regulation calls a "cable programming services tier" (that is, something beyond basic) before the Internet subscriber can increase his monthly usage allowance?