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FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

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Re: FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

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Post by iinnPP »

cryptica wrote: post #66

The law doesn't seem to work anymore. There are so many cases where someone can do illegal stuff in plain sight and nothing can be done about it. Not everyone has tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to spare to get a lawyer. By the time you manage to save up the money, you realize that this system is absolutely crooked and that you don't trust it to obtain justice anyway even with the lawyers and ev…

I recently had to deal with a ministry in Canada, where a worker who had been there since 20 years ago failed even a basic test of competence in reading comprehension. Then multiple issues with the OPC (Office of Privacy Commissioner) failing entirely on a basic issue.

Another example exists in Ontario's tenant laws constantly being criticized as enabling bad tenant behavior, but reading the statute full of many month delays for landlords and 2 day notices for tenants paints a more realistic picture.

In fact, one such landlord lied, admitted to lying, and then had their lie influence the decision in their favor, despite it being known to be false, by their own word. The appeal mentioned discretion of the adjudicator.

Not sure how long that can go on before a collapse, but I can't imagine it's very long.

Re: FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

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Post by eithed »

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #82
meindnoch wrote: post #78

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Software licensing is just another form of property rights, and property rights is what society uses to incentivise civility.

I guess who cares about civility if you're the last man standing.

Also - that word: civility. We're animals driven by self-interest. What should civility even mean here

Re: FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

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Post by perryprog »

alienbaby wrote: post #59
bfrog wrote: post #39

I wonder how this will work with AI stuff generating code without any source or attribution. It’s not like the LLMs make this stuff up out of thin air it comes from source material.

Llm's do not verbatim disgorge chunks of the code they were trained on.

I think it's probably less frequent nowadays, but it very much does happen. This still-active lawsuit[0] was made in response to LLMs generating verbatim chunks of code that they were trained on.[1]

[0] https://githubcopilotlitigation.com [1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...

Re: FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

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Post by pico303 »

meindnoch wrote: post #78

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Maybe I’m not smart enough to grasp all these flowery words, but is this suggesting if I spend a few years writing some code, you should get to copy it for your own interests and without compensating me as long as your sales and marketing is better than mine?

I don’t think Rockchip learned from the ffmoeg code. They simply copied it outright without attribution.

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