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by feanaro 6y ago
That's cool, but I don't want to use Windows for games. Games that don't work on Linux (at least through Proton) simply won't get played.
872.
by feanaro 6y ago
> That solution changes the incentive to them just performing slightly better than doing nothing, instead of the best they could. Does it? You don't simply gauge whether someone is performing better than the baseline, but how much
873.
by feanaro 6y ago
I don't think this is true. This incentive is eliminated by the fact that you can always gauge an industry's success rate. In this case, we gauge how efficient they are at making us well, compared to not following their advice. Yo
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by feanaro 6y ago
The US constitution should be amended with a right to encryption, making laws such as this one impossible. This is the only long-term way out of this mess.
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by feanaro 6y ago
Indeed, there was even a Dr House episode featuring it.
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by feanaro 6y ago
I'm personally aware of https://www.semanticmerge.com/ , though I'm not affiliated and have used it only briefly.
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by feanaro 6y ago
That's interesting. Without disclosing my location, let's just say I'm in a much less powerful (and hence, I would imagine, less reputable) country than Germany. I doubt it is in the "good" set, but who knows. I als
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by feanaro 6y ago
> Browsers don't bypass the protection mechanism, they implement it. This is incorrect. The website implements the protection mechanism, browsers execute it, just as youtube-dl. The implementor is the person writing the code, not
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by feanaro 6y ago
It's important to keep in mind that while the Pijul/Anu model brings many improvements over the git model, we still need to pair it with semantic merge algorithms if we hope to avoid nonsensical merges in the context of programmin
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by feanaro 6y ago
More importantly, if a work is distributed under a "protection" mechanism that is regularly bypassed by browsers, does that mean that browsers are circumvention tools too?
881.
by feanaro 6y ago
Which is more of an indication that they realized this is costing them too much good will after the fact. He did still require code to be removed in order to reinstate the repository and the RIAA still managed to cause turmoil, so I would c
882.
by feanaro 6y ago
I don't have a Google account, I fanatically block Google's tracking and I still usually don't see captchas. For this reason, I don't think this holds.
883.
by feanaro 6y ago
When this happens for humans, I predict that we would also see parallel development of tests which ensure that a potential mate does not have gene drives in their genome.
884.
by feanaro 6y ago
This particular protection mechanism is bypassed by all browsers when they access the content. Are browsers infringing too? Clearly what is most important is the intent. In this case, it is very clearly RIAA's intent to make the aforem
885.
by feanaro 6y ago
You don't. That was subtraction on a meta level. You name the largest non-data number instead of naming the smallest data "number".
886.
by feanaro 6y ago
I very much appreciate your thoughtful response. I think the points you raise are fair, but none of them strongly and clear-cut in RIAA's favour. In fact, I would call them weak and cannot imagine RIAA would want to really press this m
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by feanaro 6y ago
I partially agree with you. This seems like a very good argument to start competing with the US harder. As a counterexample, I'd like to offer you sci-hub which doesn't seem to significant hosting problems. Remember, we are not tr
888.
by feanaro 6y ago
No, you can't. Let's not weaken words in order to make a presumed point. I do appreciate that these are factors which make DMCA more relevant than if these factors did not exist. But your last point is not even a current fact but
889.
by feanaro 6y ago
How about if we first standardize a universal, generic encoding scheme which produces numbers? Then if you saw a random number somewhere, you'd know to simply try decoding it with this scheme to see whether it succeeds.
890.
by feanaro 6y ago
You could just say "greater than N-1" to avoid this problem, so this doesn't seem like a very strong argument. I think the better point to make is that the law will never actually produce a concrete N, preferring to leave its
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by feanaro 6y ago
> No, they're not. The Javascript was designed to run in the browsers as authorized user agents so that a user can view the video. What are "browsers"? > Yes, you can. Literally, the entire point of copyright and IP law
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by feanaro 6y ago
A layperson who's studied this in some depth. This is obviously my interpretation of the law since I haven't tested it in courts. However, if it did come to court, I think this would be the likely conclusion. I'm also interes
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by feanaro 6y ago
Which actual, real world regulation do you think legitimately leads to this removal of the RPi listings?
894.
by feanaro 6y ago
DMCA is not a worldwide law.
895.
by feanaro 6y ago
Are you aware that the decryption you are talking about is simple JavaScript execution and that according to this interpretation, even browsers are in violation? You can't host something publicly, available via common, general purpose
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by feanaro 6y ago
The hosting for the server is irrelevant if it is relatively stable (does not get compromised every few days) and you have alternatives to move to if it gets taken down. The true single point of failure is the domain name, but sites like sc
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by feanaro 6y ago
Yes, and I'm very surprised at the number of people that are apparently falling for this narrative. It would've been unthinkable just a decade ago, it seems. It's good to see others recognise it for what it is. It needs to be
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by feanaro 6y ago
In most cases you can get away with simply connecting to the application with `objection` (mentioned in a sibling post) and running `android sslpinning disable`. This will fail in some cases when the application is obfuscated or uses a non-
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by feanaro 6y ago
I use it when pentesting/bug hunting to examine the way the application works and to modify traffic in order to break stuff (either the app or the server-side API it uses). Basically the same things you would use Burp for, except mitmp
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by feanaro 6y ago
Things aren't sufficiently bad yet for the average person to consider doing this since the present way works well enough for them. These things happen gradually in the beginning, but after a critical mass of people have heard, consider

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