I wonder how quickly this would have been fixed if it happened to a Google employee.
Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement
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#322Always operate under the assumption that iCloud (Apple), Microsoft and Google will delete any/all of your data, with no notice, and for no reason. Because they explicitly reserve the right to do so in their TOSes. Not your computer, not your data etc. ( https://www.quentb.com/posts/diy-cloud-backup/ )
To clarify: Google isn't deleting these files. They're just "restricted", which as far as I can tell means they can't be shared publicly. It's triggering the mechanism to prevent people from using Google Drive as a file sharing service for copyrighted works. I think owners can still access their own files just fine. That said, I agree 100% that you shouldn't rely on a single point of failure for any backup. Data must…
I had one of my google docs files restricted which was just a school group project. No one was able to access it.
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#323I guess the moral of the story is, never do business with a company that doesn't provide a mailing address to which you can mail a turd (at book rate.)
Or just use google takeout to grab regular dumps of your files
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#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
It only affects sharing so it isn't a disaster if this happens, probably P3 medium if you went by their bug bounty priorities.
That is what I saw, I can still access the file. I do wonder, though, if there's some threshold of flagged files where they suddenly enact some other punishment.
I'm sure that right now, competitive YouTube scam artists are sending competing channel owners files with just "1" in them, in the hope they get their Google accounts machine-deleted and their youtube channels taken down with zero recourse...
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So in order for copyright to exist in the 21st century, it must be impossible for us to instruct computers to do anything. This is not true. It could be enforced by courts and not by computers. Courts are slower and more expensive, so they'll only be used for the most egregious violations. But that's fine. Those are the high value ones. You wrote some code or made a movie, Netflix wants to use it, Netflix has to pa…
> This is not true. It could be enforced by courts and not by computers. No, this doesn't get you through the century with copyright intact. Bandwidth and storage only get cheaper, and copyright-able files are not getting proportionally larger. Eventually--and the 21st century does seem like a reasonable timeframe--something like Google Glass is going to become the norm, for all people, all of the time. Somehow or ot…
> Bandwidth and storage only get cheaper, and copyright-able files are not getting proportionally larger.
We're already at the point where these costs are negligibly low. It takes more effort to think about the cost of transferring the text of a book over the internet than the actual cost of doing so. That's not what it's about.
> think of it like recording everything you see and hear and being able to instantly share those recordings with those around you.
If you're the one recording it, you are (in general) the copyright holder. If you're the copyright holder, you can choose to share it without charging anyone money or placing any restrictions on anything.
> We can already do this with a sentence or two of text or the gist of a melody! In the future it'll be a full book, or a song.
Let's say you're right. So now instead of taking a few days to read a book, it takes a few minutes or seconds. Great, now you can read more books. Which means each book gets read more times. Which means each reader doesn't have to pay as much in order for the author to make the same amount of money.
But if you set the price all the way to zero, how does the author make rent? And then where do the books come from?
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#326"Thanks for helping google keep the web safe" Interesting thing to add in there, how on earth does copyright stuff have anything to do with safety?
That phrase is so disturbingly dystopian that I wonder if anyone at Google ever had that thought upon seeing it. Clearly not its author, but then again, I wonder if the people working there care about anything other than their own luxurious working conditions and the $$$...
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe 0 and 1 belong in the public domain, at least under US copyright law - there appears to be a significant amount of prior art.
Not sure if prior art is relevant, per se (usually quoted in the context of patent law but IANAL), but, certainly, any copyright has expired by this point.
It might be that the 1s and 0s are derivative works, such as being derivatives of sin(x) and cos(x) for x->0.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Update: It has now flagged the file with "0\n" in it. So it's official, Both 0 and 1 are copyrighted :) https://imgur.com/a/xMgh6Xn
Relevant Onion article here: https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-18195...
Haha wow. In another testament to the times, the length of yesterday’s satire seems as long as todays “long form”, and much more developed than todays two line satire “articles”. /end soapbox
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#329Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not the case, since it also happens with other numbers.
well as it turns out hash("0") == hash(pirates of the carribean) as well. Not sure how Disney is finding these.
Trying to hash to specific values explains how some direct-to-video stuff was created. The motivation certainly wasn't quality.
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#330Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s it, kids, the internet is now illegal — until we switch to a quaternary system using only 2’s and 3’s
Wouldn't that still be binary, just using different symbols?