Nemo_bis

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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   Thanks for your contribution! I can't find it in the usual open archives. You might want to deposit the code on Zenodo, so it gets long-term preservation and a citable DOI. https://zenodo.org/
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   Intel reduces performance of RdRand by 97 % after CrossTalk/SRBDS vulnerability(phoronix.com)

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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   No, millions of existing copyrighted works are not automatically examples of works which would not have been created without copyright. Compensation is also not synonymous with exclusive rights. Academics have already calculated the optimal
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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   > Working class people don't read physical newspapers Sounds like something worth fixing. Expanding libraries is one way to do so. Back in the day, the Communist Party of Italy had legions of volunteers engaged in teaching people ho
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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   Join the Authors Alliance, they have ideas. https://www.authorsalliance.org/ Authors should ideally never give exclusive rights to publishers, because publishers invariably abuse them (as in this lawsuit). There are some co
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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   Thanks! The case is American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Goodfriend: https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.nysd.520217 Also at EFF: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-joins-locast-
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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   Too bad nobody ever managed to prove this actually works.
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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   You can also contribute to the press freedom tracker. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/
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   by Nemo_bis 6y ago

   > certain classes of works would indeed go away Unlikely and definitely unproven. Historical precedent rather shows that at least 96 % of the books would be produced even without copyright, given less than 4 % bothered to register the co
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    I've never tried filling a MiFID II form in person at a bank counter, but I definitely felt slapped by some of the online quizzes.
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Same here. What publishers give to authors is practically zero, so if you want the author to get any money you're better off sending them a donation directly.
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    In USA, the system publishers love so much means that the libraries may go bankrupt when there is an increase in lending. Sure, in the short term it might sound profitable. https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/03/
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Indeed, given a rather typical conversion rate of 2 % you need a lot of people at the beginning to get thousands of sales. https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/03/17/what-is-a-good...
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    I don't "assume" it, but do you have any evidence to the contrary?
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Thanks for joining the discussion. Do you think the authors' association figure, that about 3 % of publishers' revenue goes to authors, is correct? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/27/
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Sadly, people misunderstand this basic reasoning and think it applies the other way too: if something offers a low return, then it must be safe. Thousands of retail investors in Italy lost all their money in high-risk bonds sold by their ba
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    It's already the case in EU, it's called MiFID II. https://www.esma.europa.eu/policy-rules/mifid-ii-and-mifir
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    I see you don't provide evidence, only anecdotes. If you want to start looking for evidence, let me know and I can suggest some ways to look for relevant studies. Here's one: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/conten
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    622 times is on the high end! The average is less than 50 and the median I'd guess less than 10. But that scan was uploaded by the Internet Archive itself, only the physical book was donated by a prominent Internet Archive employee. I
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    You can also sell free software https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html and, in the publishing world, many publishers make money selling public domain books. So your premise is incorrect. I'm not asking for
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    For now there's always https://archive.org/donate/
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Sure, Microsoft is even worse. > Perhaps the most successful global monopoly is Microsoft, which has succeeded in gaining global market power not only in PC operating systems but in key applications such as browsers. [...] Microsoft&#x27
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Do you have any evidence that copyright on Windows has resulted in more wages for developers?
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    The lawsuit is about 127 books which have a copyright registration, listed in the attachment: https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.nysd.537900/gov.us... The publishers have already proposed an alternative to
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    It's in https://blog.archive.org/2020/04/07/the-national-emergency-l... > Trying to compare a physical check-out of a book with a digital check-out is difficult. Assuming that the number of physical b
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Donate as usual: the money doesn't stay on the Internet Archive's bank account for long, it won't go to publishers. You can donate more later if the Internet Archive asks for donations specifically for the lawsuit, and at any
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    There was a takedown request shortly after it was posted. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200511/11291844477/copyr...
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    by Nemo_bis 6y ago

    Send a report to one of the privacy authorities in member states. Several of them accept tips even if you are not directly affected. https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
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    by Nemo_bis 7y ago

    Unlikely to be true unless you use PDF/A.
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    by Nemo_bis 7y ago

    Snowden's "Permanent record" has some stories on this.