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ShellMonkey , to Privacy in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak
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That'll only ever pass of the big cloud vendors allow it. No way that Azure/AWS/Google wouldn't object if a sizable portion of their user base get upset and threaten to leave. How much of that user base argues is unknown though.

possiblylinux127 ,
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The money makers for large clouds are companies. They won't care about this legislation

ShellMonkey ,
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Generally yes, it would matter a lot how it was structured. Today you couldn't call up AWS and ask for the details on a service owner out of privacy reasons and there are ways to register things by proxy. If they started stripping those kind of protections away though there's bound to be some pushback.

PlantObserver , to Technology in Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos

Constant cunty moves like this is why I will not spend one fucking red cent on anything Nintendo ever again.

Yet again, this was not impacting their business/profits in any way shape or form, if anything it helps keep their brand relevant, and they still fuck it up for everyone.

Pirate everything Nintendo.

Retroarch + Vimm's lair is one good source for ROMs for those starting out.

chiisana ,
@chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net avatar

You are advocating piracy, and were never going to spent a cent anyway.

Like it or not, this is how IP laws work. Direct your attention at your local law makers to abolish outdated IP laws.

Grangle1 ,

In this case, Japanese IP laws, which are among the strictest in the developed world. That's what allows Nintendo to legally throw their weight around like they do. And given that Japan is the home of many of the world's most valuable IPs, not just in gaming but in many other fields, not to mention the fact that corporate control of the gov't and society is on a whole other level there compared to the West, don't expect those laws to change any time soon.

catloaf ,

The DMCA is an American law. Japanese IP law does not figure into this scenario at all.

loutr ,
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I've owned all of Nintendo's portable consoles (except for the 3DS), a Wii and I currently have a Switch. I have like a thousand euros worth of games on it, all bought through the store.

But I'm tired of this relentless fuckery, and when my daughter's old enough to use the Switch, I will hack my switch and pirate the games I haven't already bought.

Same with streaming, for years I paid for 3 or 4 services, but I'm tired of those fuckers nickel and diming me, and making me jump through hoops to play my paid for content on Linux, so I canceled everything and now run jellyseerr+Jellyfin which is a much better experience.

However I haven't pirated a single PC game in like 20 years, because Valve and Steam are awesome and the prices are fair. Same with Spotify, though Ek is a tool so I'm starting to look for (legal) alternatives.

What I'm getting at is, I don't mind paying for my entertainment, but when I start feeling like a cash cow for fucking assholes you better believe I will sail the high seas.

EndlessApollo ,

Yar Har Har 🏴‍☠️🗡️

cmnybo ,

Nintendo has been on my shitlist for a long time. They will never see a single cent from me either.

rottingleaf , to Technology in Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine

It may be useful for something like ed2k too, to fight poisoning (remember all those horse porn files instead of what you were looking for, except for cases where you were looking for horse porn but found Star Wars).

rottingleaf , to Technology in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users

It's really funny how big states today have solved the problem of public outrage at wholesale censorship and surveillance, simply by introducing it 10 times slower than all those goosestepping predecessors.

GiddyGap ,

Definitely. Just take one tiny step at a time. No one will notice and it all just seems normal: "It's always been like that." No, it hasn't always been like that. The tiny steps got you to the same place, it just took longer.

sandman ,

The saddest thing is, the bad people are the ones who fight back (in their minds.)

rottingleaf ,

I've talked to some people of the "relative of a bureaucrat\politician" kind. If it makes this emotionally easier for you, they know that they are the bad people.

They just think they are smarter and stronger and thus deserve to screw people.

snownyte ,
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That's the same method politicians have done to get controversial bills passed. Because they know they can't pass something like "ANNEX AMERICAN PRIVACY ACT" right there out in the open. It'll get shot down. Political suicide just to get it on the docket.

But if they do just enough bills that pass to make people think things are going okay, when we least expect it, they'll lump it in the next big budget bill and it'll become law. Then we'll all go "Huh, wha?" before we know it.

I mean, that's how the Patriot Act has passed.

simple , to Technology in Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos
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It was already confirmed to be actually Nintendo earlier

TORFdot0 ,

That’s exactly what the article is about. It basically points out that mm-nintendo.com domain is owned by MarkMonitor the brand reputation firm that also owns a bunch of mm-{brand name}.com domains. And basically points out that while it does look like it seems like a scam domain, it really isn’t

Gazumi , to Technology in Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine

An excellent proof of concept.

just_another_person , to Technology in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users

This only applies to the big datacenter providers. Plenty of ways to make this a non-issue.

Gormadt , to Technology in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users
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umbrella , (edited )
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a simple 'no' wont really cut it unless we make some noise.

CosmicCleric , (edited ) to Technology in U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users
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From the article...

Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won't be able to avoid the proposal's requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others.

... and ...

The premise is relatively simple. By having a more rigorous sign-up procedure for platforms such as Amazon’s AWS, for example, the risk of malicious actors using U.S. cloud services to attack U.S. critical infrastructure, or undermine national security in other ways, can be reduced.

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EdibleFriend ,
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What is that link

x4740N ,
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I assume that user is licencing their comments under creative commons

spookex ,

Now I want to see someone break down if that's even enforceable

FaceDeer ,
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Especially given that this particular comment is 90% quotes from some other author.

EdibleFriend ,
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This is on par with the copypastas that floated around FB for a while isn't it?

db2 ,
nevernevermore ,
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No need to assume, you can see this on all of their comment history. They are claiming ownership of their words, or in the context, ownership of how they’ve arranged others words

MakePorkGreatAgain ,

eh, I could just pirate their words if I so chose & there'd be fuckall they could do about it

r00ty ,
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I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment "pirating" another user's comment.

teft ,
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I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment “pirating” another user’s comment.

-teft

This is mine now.

r00ty ,
@r00ty@kbin.life avatar

Release the hounds. I mean lawyers.

MisterMoo ,

Big sovereign citizen energy.

simplejack ,
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I was thinking of using this comment to train my for-profit LLM, but now that I see the licensing agreement, I know I will never be able weather the prolonged court battles.

msage ,

Damn, I was looking forward to the Jesus API

CosmicCleric , (edited )
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I was thinking of using this comment to train my for-profit LLM, but now that I see the licensing agreement,

Honestly at this point it's more about just reading the replies from people who get bent out of shape about seeing that link, than actually protecting myself from bots. It's almost like a strange Internet Rorschach test. It's honestly kind of weird how many people respond back negatively to that link.

Having said that, primarily it's an attempt to get AI companies that use bots to not use my comments to train their models, or at least give citation of my name if they do, which I've never seen any company do at this point for anything that they use to train any their models.

I know I will never be able weather the prolonged court battles.

It's a momentary copy and paste, a 'low hanging fruit' thing I can do to try to limit interaction with bots. If it works, it's a bonus.

Also, I'm retired, I have time on my hands. You never know. 🤷

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urist ,
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For what it’s worth, I’m entertained by people needing to tell you what they think of your copy paste. It’s fun.

Bring back forum signatures!

—————

Tryin to make a change :-\

CosmicCleric , (edited )
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Tryin to make a change :-\

Be the change you want.

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asdfasdfasdf ,

This is basically nationally enforced "security through obscurity" which is dumb as fuck.

TORFdot0 ,

This is more of a privacy failure than a security failure. I don't see how purchasing services via an alias could be considered security

asdfasdfasdf ,

"attack US critical infrastructure" is security

TORFdot0 ,

"Security by obscurity" is very much an end user "i don't need to harden my server/accounts because nobody would bother hacking me" attitude and is really is "dumb as fuck"

But KYC is just expanded due diligence before providing services, thats why I thought it as privacy issue as to why someone would be against it as opposed to it security wise.

I still don't see how you've gotten from that to "nationally enforced security by obscurity" though

asdfasdfasdf ,

Instead of implementing systems that are not vulnerable to attack, they are just removing the people who know how to attack.

TORFdot0 ,

I think we fundamentally disagree on these ideas, and that’s ok.

“Implementing systems that are not vulnerable to attack” is an impossible task. And passing KYC legislation doesn’t preclude anyone from hardening their system and I didn’t read any signs that the government plans to leave any of its systems unhardened.

db2 , to Technology in Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine

No way it could be abused to deanonymize people.

Almrond ,

DHT is an identifying protocol by design, it is how people find you to send/receive data. If your connection to the swarm is anonymized there really isn't a ton the AI is going to be able to do that isn't already happening with traditional methods.

wildbus8979 , to Technology in Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine

Sounds like it's just an LLM for DHT indexing...

MigratingtoLemmy ,

Indeed. I suppose it's a good idea in theory and should be helpful though

Almrond ,

It is, but I can see a few use cases that could make it useful. Namely, it can look for common scam/virus patterns to filter more effectively and offer better content suggestions. There are also cases to be made for more descriptive indexing and content identification: lots of torrents have particularly bad naming schemes or misspellings that make finding the content somewhat more difficult or involved.

technocrit ,

Yep, there's no "intelligence" involved at all. Just data and statistics.

wildbus8979 ,

And moreover DHT search engines already exist.

Reverendender , to Technology in Premier League Wants GoDaddy to Identify Live Streaming Pirates.
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Godaddy still exists?

triptrapper , to Technology in Premier League Wants GoDaddy to Identify Live Streaming Pirates.

A few years back Dana White said he was going to crack down on illegal UFC streams. Then one night at a press conference he announced, "You guys remember the guy I was talking about who was doing the illegal streams? WE GOT HIM. He apologized and promised he'll never do it again." These losers are completely out of touch.

BassTurd , to Technology in Premier League Wants GoDaddy to Identify Live Streaming Pirates.

Lol, ok Premier League. Welcome to the party.

Pxtl , to Technology in DMCA Notice Targeting ‘Bypass Paywalls Clean’ Isn’t The Thing to Get Angry About
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I have a simple opinion on paywall bypassers:

If it's possible to bypass the paywall, that means there's already a class of unauthenticated clients you're allowing to see it. I have no interest in complying with whatever infrastructure you use to implement this discrimination.

Implementing a true hard paywall is trivial software. The only reason bypassing is possible is because they're trying to have their cake and eat it too by allowing (eg) search engines to see it unauthenticated.

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