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EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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My favorite part of this response is in the footnote on page two, which states: >If your client sincerely fears that this depiction is too realistic to be perceived as parody, Krazam’s video should be the least of its reputational concerns. Followed by screenshots from the video showing the DocuSign "Docustage" and Meme Center (Sponsored by GE). At the end of the video itself, the Coachella participant is banned from…

Something that really blew my mind was that one of my favorite bands: Metallica's comment on how people are to interact with their performances. "Where here to provide the party, if they don't like how we do it, that's on them." It says a lot on the ego of the producer of the product. [Also that they're treating it as a product.. yes metallica corporate I see you] It completely disreguards of how the individual relat…

To be fair, wouldnt you set ground rules for your guests if you threw a house party? If those guests dont abide by your rules, you're just going to embrace them to keep doing it?

Ragging on them simply because they want to put ground rules down, so everyone can have fun, is pretty immature. Yes concerts need rules. The venue can be held liable for certain things drunk/high dumbasses are going to do. You need to be specific about what rules are so dictatorish or you just sound like a 15 year old pissed off with their parents.

Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

#32

For context, it looks like this is the original tweet from one of the video creators: https://twitter.com/shivakilaru/status/1372941623609282561 Cease and Desist over Instagram.

Is that even recoginizable in court as legit?

Here's the DNC serving Wikileaks over Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProcessServiceC/status/10279609725044572...

Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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This was fucking epic and I never would have seen it, for the Streisand effect bringing it to HN. Faith in humanity -- restored.

The youtube link still laughing!! .. the link is IN THE CODIFIED REPLY.. to the cease and desist.. I can't.. this is too funny

Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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Here's the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67sfZfreOrU These guys have a lot of relevant content for HN types, they're really funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

The goddam microservices video is an absolute masterpiece.

it's.. it's literally like they were there, at my 8 months stint as a corporate developer .. I FEEL SEEN!

Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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Here's the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67sfZfreOrU These guys have a lot of relevant content for HN types, they're really funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

"Senior Engineer" is what I aspire to be someday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqexFg74F8

Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something that really blew my mind was that one of my favorite bands: Metallica's comment on how people are to interact with their performances. "Where here to provide the party, if they don't like how we do it, that's on them." It says a lot on the ego of the producer of the product. [Also that they're treating it as a product.. yes metallica corporate I see you] It completely disreguards of how the individual relat…

To be fair, wouldnt you set ground rules for your guests if you threw a house party? If those guests dont abide by your rules, you're just going to embrace them to keep doing it? Ragging on them simply because they want to put ground rules down, so everyone can have fun, is pretty immature. Yes concerts need rules. The venue can be held liable for certain things drunk/high dumbasses are going to do. You need to be sp…

I'm not talking about house rules. Having good safety rules is fine at venues and I fully support those.

I believe they were talking about setlists, etc. (They refuse to play some songs live, etc) There are artists that are ridiculously over reaching, like the phone bans, face recognition bans, etc.

Re: EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They cared enough to send a cease & desist letter.

They don't care about Krazam, but they want this particular video to go away. People can be fickle about their music and the resulting concerts. People tend to view corporations and music (really all art) as orthogonal concepts. Art can only be tainted by corporations, therefor any kind of corporate music festival can only be subpar. I suspect they know the accusations are fair, but were hoping nobody would call them…

> They don't care about Krazam, but they want this particular video to go away.

And how did that work out?

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