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Re: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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Post by actionfromafar »

jonhohle wrote: post #137
kmeisthax wrote: post #28

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1201(a)(2) prohibits selling tools that are either... - Only capable of breaking copy protection - Have minimal commercial utility other than to break copy protection - Are advertised as being able to break copy protection If you sold someone an aux cord with the marketing slogan "Copy music off Spotify and stop paying for your subscription", that'd violate 1201(a)(2) because of that third prong[0]. There's also plen…

Somewhere in my HDMI chain (Fire TV, Receiver, Splitter, HDMI capture), there is something that’s stripping/ignoring HDCP providing a throwback method of “time/format shifting” content from at least one of the big players. Obviously all of those components have other uses, but I’m happy one of them (probably the splitter or capture device) give me fair use back.

Some TVs with more than 1 HDMI input, has an internal bridge thing which you can tap for the HDCP stripped content.

I’m told, of course.

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Post by dotancohen »

mcpackieh wrote: post #224
dotancohen wrote: post #176

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Compact discs generally do not wear on use, vinyl does.

Oxidation causes CDs to rot even if you don't play them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot#Causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc#Integrity If you play a vinyl record enough to wear it out, at least you listened to it a lot before it wore out. With CDs, you might never listen to the music even once and come back years later to find it has destroyed itself.

My original Rust in Peace still plays fine after three and a half decades of use, thank God.

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Post by tdullien »

adhesive_wombat wrote: post #43
amelius wrote: post #37

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This only works as long as the silicon used for deep learning cooperates.

They can just tattoo all celebrities with EURion constellations on their faces. Don't worry, it's only a short-term measure until the replacement models are fully trained.

I support this.

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Post by Modified3019 »

justinclift wrote: post #194
Pannoniae wrote: post #121

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Soulseek is your friend.

Or maybe Bandcamp (bandcamp.com).

Bandcamp is what I use.

One thing to note, is that the artist/label retain full control of what music is present, and as such can be removed at any time, even ones you paid for. See: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406122372119-Wh...

I use https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader to immediately archive flac files to my NAS after a purchase, then convert to those to a lossy for space saving format for mobile playback/family sharing as desired with a playlist. This way I have my archive, and the artists I like get their support.

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Post by boopmaster »

Modified3019 wrote: post #235
justinclift wrote: post #194

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Or maybe Bandcamp (bandcamp.com).

Bandcamp is what I use. One thing to note, is that the artist/label retain full control of what music is present, and as such can be removed at any time, even ones you paid for. See: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406122372119-Wh... I use https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader to immediately archive flac files to my NAS after a purchase, then convert to those to a lossy for space saving format f…

this is indeed what had happened to one of my top listens in 2022.

artist decided to revise their own back catalog narrative so to speak, and I get it but holy crap the horses already left the stable.

So it is not for sale. I might find it on soulseek (thanks for the suggestion someone else ITT). the album meant a lot to me, as these things can when they're literally top playcounts for the year - clearly it does.

and it was, you know... super-indie, mom's basement kind of soundcloud & distrokid released production.

wonderful and now gone. Had I bought this on iTunes it would have gone into my offline library. it was for sale, and is no more.

my takeaway has been to get very defensive about any hyper-indie releases that I want to hang onto.

Re: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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Post by justinclift »

Modified3019 wrote: post #235
justinclift wrote: post #194

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Or maybe Bandcamp (bandcamp.com).

Bandcamp is what I use. One thing to note, is that the artist/label retain full control of what music is present, and as such can be removed at any time, even ones you paid for. See: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406122372119-Wh... I use https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader to immediately archive flac files to my NAS after a purchase, then convert to those to a lossy for space saving format f…

Yeah. I use Bandcamp to ensure any $$$ I spend get to the artist as well, and also immediately download their FLAC to my setup as well.

Re: Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio

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Post by justinclift »

boopmaster wrote: post #236
Modified3019 wrote: post #235

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Bandcamp is what I use. One thing to note, is that the artist/label retain full control of what music is present, and as such can be removed at any time, even ones you paid for. See: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406122372119-Wh... I use https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader to immediately archive flac files to my NAS after a purchase, then convert to those to a lossy for space saving format f…

this is indeed what had happened to one of my top listens in 2022. artist decided to revise their own back catalog narrative so to speak, and I get it but holy crap the horses already left the stable. So it is not for sale. I might find it on soulseek (thanks for the suggestion someone else ITT). the album meant a lot to me, as these things can when they're literally top playcounts for the year - clearly it does. and…

Did you contact the artist to ask if you could grab the older version of their release?

They might still have it around and be happy to provide it. :)

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Post by lucubratory »

chpatrick wrote: post #217
lucubratory wrote: post #165

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...was someone claiming that electricity is human nature, to make you think this was a valid analogy?

We didn't have X for two million years therefore X bad I think it's a very strange argument.

My claim was that something we didn't have for any substantial amount of our two million years of existence isn't "human nature", not that it was "bad" (weird moralising on your part). Electricity isn't "just human nature" either. We should decide whether we as a society want or accept a given thing based on its effects on all of us, not whether it's "human nature" (which is almost always an incorrect claim when it's made).

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Post by jojobas »

account42 wrote: post #219
jojobas wrote: post #170

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I would doubt it. Websites are essentially software distributed on demand, there is no requirement to distribute your software for any particular platform (browser). If Apple can make their software (i.e. Final Cut or Logic) exclusive to Apple devices, so can Google.

You have heard of anti-trust regulations, yes?

Is there some fine print saying "but Apple can"?
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