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This reminds me of Tom Scott's "Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers" video [1] [1] https://youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E https://youtu.be/IFe9wiDfb0E

kuschku 5y ago
Also see the other video Tom Scott made on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ
- kingcharles 5y ago
  Fantastic (and scary), thank you. These media fingerprinting databases are truly dystopian. I have come across a wide range of media recently that is being erased from our culture this way. The media giants say "don't pirate it, you can buy/rent it from us". But - and this is a big but - what if you can't rent/buy it? What if the media giant just adds the content's fingerprint to the database but then erases or locks away all copies of it. Now you cannot upload it to any site with any serious audience. I have videos that the networks have locked away, but yet I cannot upload them to Youtube/Vimeo or anything similar because they are flagged. I cannot self-host them because the bandwidth requirements would kill me. Sure, they probably exist on places like Freenet, but that is essentially inaccessible for most mortals. Once all the people that know of these things die off we'll only be left with whispers on the Web where such things are mentioned as having once existed, but can never be seen.
  - iszomer 5y ago
    Never heard of a piratebox before?
    - kingcharles 5y ago
      I have now ;)
  - kuschku 5y ago
    An interesting example: CBS pulled Star Trek from Netflix in Germany, but because they licensed Paramount+ to Sky, which launches next year, now some of the show's aren't available at all.
    - kingcharles 5y ago
      Yep, another example that I was thinking of. There is no way for you to get that content legally right now, although it will be available in the future (allegedly).
kingcharles 5y ago
This was fantastic. When I worked on Microsoft's DRM products in the early 00s I came to the sudden realization that if we had AR glasses in the future they could block out things from our vision and replace them with adverts. Ugh. It will come true.

kuschku 5y ago

Also see the other video Tom Scott made on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ

kingcharles 5y ago
Fantastic (and scary), thank you. These media fingerprinting databases are truly dystopian. I have come across a wide range of media recently that is being erased from our culture this way. The media giants say "don't pirate it, you can buy/rent it from us". But - and this is a big but - what if you can't rent/buy it? What if the media giant just adds the content's fingerprint to the database but then erases or locks away all copies of it. Now you cannot upload it to any site with any serious audience. I have videos that the networks have locked away, but yet I cannot upload them to Youtube/Vimeo or anything similar because they are flagged. I cannot self-host them because the bandwidth requirements would kill me. Sure, they probably exist on places like Freenet, but that is essentially inaccessible for most mortals. Once all the people that know of these things die off we'll only be left with whispers on the Web where such things are mentioned as having once existed, but can never be seen.
- iszomer 5y ago
  Never heard of a piratebox before?
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    I have now ;)
- kuschku 5y ago
  An interesting example: CBS pulled Star Trek from Netflix in Germany, but because they licensed Paramount+ to Sky, which launches next year, now some of the show's aren't available at all.
  - kingcharles 5y ago
    Yep, another example that I was thinking of. There is no way for you to get that content legally right now, although it will be available in the future (allegedly).

kingcharles 5y ago

This was fantastic. When I worked on Microsoft's DRM products in the early 00s I came to the sudden realization that if we had AR glasses in the future they could block out things from our vision and replace them with adverts. Ugh. It will come true.