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Re: Apple watch keyboard developer put off by app store scammers

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Post by nanidin »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #309
nanidin wrote: post #242

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The DMCA was created to allow websites like Youtube to exist without existential threat from rights holders due to users uploading content that they do not hold the rights to. Your view is Stallman-esque, but the world is not so clear cut in terms of good/evil. At best, I would say the abuse of the DMCA by large entities is an unintended consequence of the existence of the DMCA, and it could be patched up by lawmaker…

>I would say the abuse of the DMCA by large entities is an unintended consequence of the existence of the DMCA, and it could be patched up by lawmakers if there weren't already a remedy for DMCA requests made in bad faith. that's sort of a nonsensical statement - it would mean that abuse cannot be patched up if there is a remedy. But how does abuse happen if there is a remedy? Surely the remedy is not very good if it…

In the case of a DMCA notice, the entity making the complaint must make it in good faith and under penalty of perjury.

The target of the complaint can file a counter-notice. That is the remedy that you have if there is a false complaint made against you.

There is no catch-22 here - there is a clear path to follow within the legal system for cases of abuse. Could it be patched up to be better? Sure. But catch-22? There is no rule preventing you from responding to or addressing false complaints. If anything, the catch-22 comes from the sites that benefit from DMCA that don't allow DMCA counter-notices, or even worse that pre-emptively remove user submitted content that it suspects will generate DMCA notices. In that case, your argument skews toward "posted speed limits encourage a system where law enforcement officers set up speed traps" - but would we be better off without speed limits altogether? Or maybe just with some limitations on the problems that arise from them?

The net benefit of DMCA is better than without DMCA. The non-DMCA alternative is that I can go post the text of Harry Potter to Reddit, and J.K. Rowling can sue Reddit for distribution of her (registered) copyrighted material for damages. With DMCA, J.K. Rowling can send a DMCA notice to Reddit, and Reddit can take the post down and offer me the chance to respond that the content is not in violation - but Reddit is not in peril.

I'm not a lawyer, but I took a grad level IP law class as part of my undergrad coursework. I think people like us stand to benefit quite a bit from learning how things work at that level.

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Post by [deleted] »

kergonath wrote: post #214
cfontes wrote: post #75

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Try Amsterdam, for example. €1000 is your rent.

The usual course of action is flat sharing. Rent is then a bit more reasonable. In London you could find rooms from a few hundred quid pcm, then depending on location the sky is the limit. That was the most expensive city in Europe, pre-Brexit.

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Post by jiofih »

parasubvert wrote: post #254
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #170

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Since the conversation started about students needing 2k Euros to live, the 2k we're talking about is net or after taxes. I know Norway has high wages and prices but I can't imagine new-grads there making 4k after taxes.

New grads make a lot these days. Here’s the Netherlands for example: https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Netherland...

That’s total compensation including stocks and bonuses, and still way beyond the median dev salary. Levels.FYI caters to a niche audience. Sort it by lowest to get a much more realistic picture.

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Post by jiofih »

parasubvert wrote: post #132
jiofih wrote: post #122

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As the other comment mentioned, 2k/month is a starter salary in the nordics. It is near instagram-lifestyle money in Portugal, Spain and most of the eastern EU for a young single person. A student having their own apartment (and a car??) is already a luxury 99% of the world will never experience.

Most students I knew didn’t have their own apartment and car but a few did if they had small children, had social reasons to live alone, or were married (yes some people get pregnant in high school). They usually had a mix of parental help, loans and part time or coop program work, and scholarships. They weren’t super rich, they were from middle class Canadian families 25 years ago. I even have a friend going to scho…

You can’t compare Canada to most of Europe. Cars are ridiculously cheap in the US and CA, but a luxury in EU capitals. Parking alone would cost hundreds/month, and expecting that mythical student’s apartment to have a garage is a funny joke!

For someone earning half a million, 2k may not seem much, but there goes your reality check. See the other response to your comment - living on €600/month is the more common student experience, maybe even above median.

Average income in the EU is somewhere around 30-40k/year, most parents will never ever have close to 2k/month per child. Even in expensive cities, most will live in shared student accommodation which is cheaper (200-300). This is what allows almost anyone to enjoy the cheap higher education, if it required even 1k spare income you would exclude the majority of the population.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

exikyut wrote: post #308
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #119

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I just publish it on GH, without a distribution license[0]. These folks are experts. They probably know exactly what terminology to use, which screens to optimize, etc. Just because they are scammers, doesn't mean they are stupid. They could probably actually make legit money, giving classes on the Apple App Store process. [0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/ambiamara

Huh, interesting. I was imagining GH would be the worst place to put code considering the existence of immoral vacuum cleaners, but the platform is such a firehose , and the apps you're publishing sufficiently domain-specific, that it seems to work. Interesting. And yeah, wow, the scammers could give classes... with the only irony that the once out of the "game", as it were, an individual ex-player's info will litera…

It wouldn’t be too difficult to publish it as a zip file on one of my sites; but no need (at present). GH is quite convenient. I do believe in open source, but I don’t really care too much about Free Software.

Yeah, the Apple app provisioning system changes so much, and so quickly, that you blink; you miss it.

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Post by valuearb »

bhawker wrote: post #307
valuearb wrote: post #149

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App Review is hard. Apple does a better job at it than Google, so imagine what is happening on the play store.

Is this something we just keep repeating, believing it to be true despite examples like this?

Because the examples on Google play are even worse?

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Post by SeanLuke »

Groxx wrote: post #292
SeanLuke wrote: post #231

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Doesn't this mean that Google has violated the DMCA and you can sue/fine them?

The report button doesn't file a valid DMCA takedown request, so probably not.

Pretty sure that's not how the law works.

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Post by innagadadavida »

valuearb wrote: post #305
stevehawk wrote: post #293

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Apple doesn't approve each release of an app?

They do, but in these cases the binary never changed. A value returned to it from a web API changed, or a date passed, or the users are outside of Cupertino, etc.

Are there any automated approaches to solve this type of bait and switch?

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Post by cratermoon »

nanidin wrote: post #300
cratermoon wrote: post #296

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> existential threat from rights holders due to users uploading content that they do not hold the rights to Said threat only comes from big content owners, and they don't even bother to check if they have the rights to the content before issuing a DMCA challenge. A small-fry content owner doesn't have the resources to find copyright infringement, while big content providers simply scrape everything with automation an…

> A small-fry content owner doesn't have the resources to find copyright infringement Again, DMCA works out in favor of the small-fry content owner who more than likely has the resources to find copyright infringement (Google searches are free), but that certainly doesn't have the resources to take every case of copyright violation to court for injunction or other remedy. Pre-DMCA, if someone posted content that I cr…

I've never heard a small content creator say anything good about the DMCA; all I've heard is big content abusing the system to claim the work of small creators.

Also, the entire premise of your DMCA example for small creators is false and trivializes the difficulty of even finding violations. "Google searches are free"? As if I can spend 5 minutes google "who copied my stuff"?

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Post by parasubvert »

jiofih wrote: post #314
parasubvert wrote: post #132

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Most students I knew didn’t have their own apartment and car but a few did if they had small children, had social reasons to live alone, or were married (yes some people get pregnant in high school). They usually had a mix of parental help, loans and part time or coop program work, and scholarships. They weren’t super rich, they were from middle class Canadian families 25 years ago. I even have a friend going to scho…

You can’t compare Canada to most of Europe. Cars are ridiculously cheap in the US and CA, but a luxury in EU capitals. Parking alone would cost hundreds/month, and expecting that mythical student’s apartment to have a garage is a funny joke! For someone earning half a million, 2k may not seem much, but there goes your reality check. See the other response to your comment - living on €600/month is the more common stud…

I had mentioned that a car is needed in some cases, but not all. If I have small kids as a student I’m probably going to need a car in Canada, US, or some EU countries (not all).

Overall I’m also going by what many EU schools say are average expected living expenses for an international student. Invariably it’s a lot more than €600 a month.

I’m not denying folks can go to school on the cheap, I’m just saying that if you think €1-2k a month is ridiculous jet setting luxury, you’re wrong.

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