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Twitter’s Broken Its Copyright Strike System, Users Are Uploading Full Movies

17 points by shaburn 4y ago

logicalmonster 4y ago
Sure, complicated systems can easily break down on their own if a hard drive fills up or crashes or if some network configuration gets screwed up by desperate programmers on a late night crunch trying to impress the new boss. But a well-designed system shouldn't necessarily die so quickly even if it's not maintained by anybody. Could this be an act of sabotage to get the new Twitter in legal trouble? Perhaps somebody broke the copyright system on the way out of the door in order to get Hollywood's lawyers endlessly suing them? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't rule out some wild plot twist in this story.
- gnat 4y ago
  Conspiracy theory not needed. I read a note on Twitter that beautifully described the ops situation: somewhere there's a process that writes a log file, and log rolling hasn't been automated for that one yet, and an engineer had it on their calendar to clean it out once a week. That engineer got fired, and with them the knowledge of the problem, the symptoms, and the solution. It may not be a log file being written, it may not be a disk filling up, it may not be a week, but a surprising amount of keeping a system going is institutional knowledge -- even in well-architected and well-developed systems. The detail is fractal and humans are the glue between machines.
- thefreeman 4y ago
  elon posted that they were shutting down 80% of the "unnecessary microservices". it's far more likely this was intentionally shut down because noone remaining knew what it did or it fell through the cracks.
g42gregory 4y ago
It's hard to feel sympathy for the Hollywood lawyers. Sonny Bono's "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" sets protection for 120 years, or the life of the author plus 70 years, whichever's earlier. It just does not seem like anything related to the public good.
shaburn 4y ago
Another desperate attempt to derail the turnaround?

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Twitter’s Broken Its Copyright Strike System, Users Are Uploading Full Movies

17 points by shaburn 4y ago

logicalmonster 4y ago
Sure, complicated systems can easily break down on their own if a hard drive fills up or crashes or if some network configuration gets screwed up by desperate programmers on a late night crunch trying to impress the new boss. But a well-designed system shouldn't necessarily die so quickly even if it's not maintained by anybody. Could this be an act of sabotage to get the new Twitter in legal trouble? Perhaps somebody broke the copyright system on the way out of the door in order to get Hollywood's lawyers endlessly suing them? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't rule out some wild plot twist in this story.
- gnat 4y ago
  Conspiracy theory not needed. I read a note on Twitter that beautifully described the ops situation: somewhere there's a process that writes a log file, and log rolling hasn't been automated for that one yet, and an engineer had it on their calendar to clean it out once a week. That engineer got fired, and with them the knowledge of the problem, the symptoms, and the solution. It may not be a log file being written, it may not be a disk filling up, it may not be a week, but a surprising amount of keeping a system going is institutional knowledge -- even in well-architected and well-developed systems. The detail is fractal and humans are the glue between machines.
- thefreeman 4y ago
  elon posted that they were shutting down 80% of the "unnecessary microservices". it's far more likely this was intentionally shut down because noone remaining knew what it did or it fell through the cracks.
g42gregory 4y ago
It's hard to feel sympathy for the Hollywood lawyers. Sonny Bono's "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" sets protection for 120 years, or the life of the author plus 70 years, whichever's earlier. It just does not seem like anything related to the public good.
shaburn 4y ago
Another desperate attempt to derail the turnaround?