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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by dudul »

_jal wrote: post #94
dudul wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could it be because when it comes to nudity, the rules can be clearly defined? "No nipples" is a pretty simple rule that doesn't leave room for interpretation. "No violent rape", "no violent murder" not so much. These are fairly subjective, and even tautological. Not saying it's not a funny paradox, just trying to figure out why.

Nope, that's an unenforceable rule, too. Here's a great article explaining the evolution of FB's nipple policy: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190503/17322942136/conte...

Interesting article, but I don't think that applies to TV media. People don't share their content on TV, it is very easy for TV censors to say "no female nipple on screen, period". For sure this becomes a problem on social media where there are plenty of reasons to share pictures with nudity (arts, breast feeding, etc), but not for movies/tv shows.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by tyingq »

MFogleman wrote: post #26

Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review. "King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play. Got it.

Maybe Google could partner with a company that has lots of experience parsing language and deriving intent/context? /s

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by throwaway314158 »

fastball wrote: post #42
Hamuko wrote: post #24

ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y

Potentially NSFW (heh this is kinda pointless atm). Also wow, I'm guessing you need to adjust the subtitle with every frame, old-school animation style?

Before newer tools automated the process by tracking motion of a target, folks wouldn't have to adjust them frame by frame per se but would instead annotate the subtitle script with keyframe times and positions. The video player would know to interpolate between those annotations.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by ttt0 »

hatsunearu wrote: post #64
MFogleman wrote: post #26

Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review. "King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play. Got it.

I hate the ads for that game so much when I'm watching random crap on Youtube...

I wonder, why people suddenly forgot that adblockers are a thing?

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by vaduz »

sli wrote: post #72
vaduz wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it just to double-plus-ensure that no one "accidentally" uses a name that ActivisionBlizzard did not license from the appropriate gun manufacturer? I.e. It has little to do with profanity but a lot to prevent someone from making screnshot of a loadout with a gun that looks like MP5, is named by them as "MP5 whatever" and behaves like an MP5 in some type of legal action?

I cannot imagine horror of the precedent it would be set if H&K successfully sued AB over copyright infringement for names that are visible only to the player who entered them. Those names are not shown publicly.

Whilst I agree - and fervently hope we won't have to live in such a world - I thought the same about the API copyrightability and that one is not exactly going the reasonable way at the moment.

H&K has an US trademark consisting of just "MP5" in relation to a ton of things (though not video games!) so they could at least try make a case out of it not being purely nominative use and tie AB in court, if they wished. It would be PR suicide, but still, not the most stupid thing they have done.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by rodgerd »

fjabre wrote: post #74
alex_c wrote: post #39

It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…

I don't understand Google's App store play. Just another walled garden where things like this can happen. They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?

> They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?

It was a con.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by throwaway314158 »

jsheard wrote: post #51
Hamuko wrote: post #24

ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y

I just watched a fansub recently where they replaced some environmental text in the background, and they used the ASS format to render the english text out of focus and seamlessly match the depth-of-field effect used in the show. Some groups really go above and beyond.

Groups like that are a dying breed. Many of them simply fell apart as key individuals quit or drifted away from the scene.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by pjmlp »

fjabre wrote: post #74
alex_c wrote: post #39

It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…

I don't understand Google's App store play. Just another walled garden where things like this can happen. They were the champions of the open web for a long time. What happened?

ChromeOSissfication of the Web happened, with lots of FOSS developers putting Chrome everywhere, including bundling it as "native" application.
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