Mindwipe

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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> If a resident of Australia vpn’s Into Germany to watch an Aussie programme then an Australian network loses a viewer for at least that content, but a German who’s paid for it in Germany? At one point I understand a double digit percent
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Like, it possibly made some sense back when the stuff was actually broadcast via terrestrial TV to the given area The majority of TV viewing is still via broadcast methods.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Google are planning to force all apps in Google Play to use Google Play billing, same as Apple do. This bill would prohibit that. Whichever dunderhead at Google thought it would be a good idea to introduce this measure this year in the curr
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> If Netflix financed the show, and Netflix streams the show, and Netflix has global distribution The number of shows where Netflix has genuinely global distribution can be counted on one hand, since they don't operate in China and
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
There is a reason you are not a lawyer.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
"Netflix original" at this point literally just means "Netflix is showing this show for the first time in this particular territory." And nothing else.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
They restrict to a particular country because it makes vastly, vastly more money. Shows are worth disproportionately more in some territories, local broadcasters are also very good customers they want to keep happy and only license in areas
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Netflix were not ever, ever, ever the only player in town. Ever.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I'm making an assumption here, but I imagine as a matter of policy, every bank keeps on record if a bank account is local or foreign owned. Nope. There are also some territories where there are significant cross country pollinatio
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
That still allows easy bypassing of the country restrictions. If you're a local pay TV broadcaster who has paid a premium price for a show that is particularily attractive in a given country, you are not going to permit Netflix to sell
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
It is extremely easy to buy card numbers, and Netflix sell pre-paid cards in some territories which are even easier to buy. But yes, location is the thing that matters in contracts, because that is actually much easier to demonstrate.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
It's really simple. It just doesn't consider anything unexpected happening. Compromised algorithms are unlikely. But not impossible. Quantum computing enabling brute force attacks is unlikely in the immediate future, but not impos
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
I read the paper when it was published, and wasn't great then and it's definitely not great now.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Too little, too late. You've already burnt trust here.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I've already posted this elsewhere, but I'm seeing some misinformation that our technical decisions are being driven by VC funding. This could not be farther from the truth. We have been working on these changes long before w
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> So no matter if it's in Dropbox, 1Password's servers, or your own hard drive, if anyone obtains a copy of the password file they still have to crack it before they gain access to anything. When I keep it on an airgapped machi
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Well that's the end of me using one password. Trying to buy 1password 7 with a local vault was literally the most miserable software experience I've ever had in decades, so I'm not surprised not many people were using it.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Given NCMEC's continuing attacks against consenting adult sex workers, that they never seem to regard adult sexual identities as valid under any circumstances, that they repeatedly retweet abolitionist groups for adult sexual expressio
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
That feels tremendously easy to abuse. As an obvious vector - an abusive husband can set up the account on their partners phone, set them up with a child account and "check" they are not sending anything suggestive. And we have no
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> There is no slippery slope from child porn prohibition to political censorship, as so many other commenters fear. The UK ISPs implemented Cleanfeed, a joint database to block access to child abuse materials, many years ago. Your feelin
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
You can actually obtain it with access to the consumer facing store now, but you couldn't when that scheme launched. But there is no way to switch between these options, or even to upgrade the consumer hardware you had to buy to get st
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
One wonders if this is why the train wreck of a web redesign was pushed out despite being... awful, and buggy as all hell.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Looking at the marketshare numbers I think that attitude is incredibly naïve.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Any DRM solution sufficient to get high resolution content from Netflix encrypts the video path from the OS so no screen recording tool will work.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
No. The media is encrypted with Common Encryption regardless. This is only about key management.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Your Brain On Porn is a quack site run by religious fundamentalists.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Citation - https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/audiovisua... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10070779?hl=en-GB#... The Irish communications regulator, Comreg, det
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Ultimately YouTube are required legally to do this in much of the EU, and Australia. The privacy community bluntly completely got caught with it's pants down being angry about corporates and ignoring the huge lobbying from "child
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Blameless post-mortems are good, but there have been rather a lot of bootloader level disasters on ChromeOS/Android and where they intersect at this point and it is probably worth wondering why this process does not seem to be generati
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I think this is unlikely, but should it become the case, you can easily install an alternative launcher, something presumably impossible on the sheild. Pretty simple to do on the Shield too.

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