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At this point, imagemagick and ffmpeg will be taken down due to copyright since there are cloud servers who trademarked converting from a file type to another.
by chad1n 2y ago
At this point, imagemagick and ffmpeg will be taken down due to copyright since there are cloud servers who trademarked converting from a file type to another.
- margalabargala 2y agoHow long until malicious actors begin forming companies like that with the express intention of doing denial-of-service attacks?
- freedomben 2y agoIronically, people doing this en masse would probably force some attention from those with power and might cause the scales to be a little more balanced. One can dream I guess.
- jojobas 2y agoFunny thing is it didn't have to be Funko or Brain Shield, anyone could have impersonated them in a takedown notice, it could have been a way more bogus notice too by the looks of it. It's definitely the registrar who's at fault here.
- nirvdrum 2y agoIt could have come from somebody else, but it didn’t.
- miki123211 2y agoYou don't even need a company, just pretending that you represent one is enough. The DMCA completely ignores how the digital world works; it was written in an age where interacting with the American legal system required you to have somebody physically located in the US. Back then, you didn't need any technical safeguards against this kind of abuse. As long as such abuse was illegal, and there was police to arrest those committing the crimes, it was enough. In technical terms, the security was implemented on a completely different layer of the stack. This is no longer the world we live in. There's nothing stopping somebody from e.g. Russia from pretending they're a relevant copyright agent, and forcing Youtube to remove anti-Putin videos.
- samplatt 2y agoSimilar to Stross' Accelerando (a book released just after the Napster era), where russian mafia legal bots went around suing everyone for whatever reason they could get their hands on.
- JasserInicide 2y agoBad actors ramping up DDoS attacks is why you see Cloudflare services on every website now
- slowmovintarget 2y agoYou mean patent trolls. That's been going on for decades.
- margalabargala 2y agoNo, not quite the same, but similar. Patent trolls actually own some IP, and they try to make money.
- reaperman 2y ago[flagged]
- dokyun 2y agoConsidering intellectual property doesn't exist, I wouldn't fault him for not knowing anything about its fundamentals.
- smileybarry 2y agoThey meant “made a business out of converting files between formats”, I.e. those “mp4 to mov” sites. Supposedly they’d be on the hook for converting copyrighted content, in this Funko world where basically touching their IP in some user-done way torches the whole business. > It’s so wrong that it makes me wonder “does this person understand anything at all about the bare fundamentals of intellectual property?” You really don’t have to assume the worst or attack them for using the wrong word here.
- mort96 2y agoHow would you use trademark or copyright to protect that concept? Isn't this more in the realm of patents?
- smileybarry 2y agoI wouldn’t, I’m just inferring what they meant from context (it just reads like they’re bilingual and had a mental mistranslation).
- FactKnower69 2y agoit's a made up word for a bullshit concept we'll be free of very soon; many of us already live our lives free of such trifles
- jcranmer 2y agoGiven that three of the four kinds of intellectual property are mentioned (and simultaneously conflated) in one statement, I think the author was trying for a satirical statement about intellectual property... but this falls hard into Poe's Law territory, I just can't tell if it was meant to be satire or if it was actually an honest belief.