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• On the post: Misguided Crusade For Tech Antitrust Will Exacerbate Inequality

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2021 @ 08:57pm

  Exacerbate Inequality

  I'm sure exacerbating inequality is the actual motivation of some of the people involved, or at least part of it. Inequality = cheap labor, plus some people can only feel like they have enough by looking at others who have less.

• On the post: Twitch's Freak Out Response To RIAA Takedown Demands Raises Even More DMCA Questions

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2020 @ 01:15am

  Re: Re: The missing piece of this puzzle…

  Sure, but my point is the video aspect has a very small impact on their business, and that of the streamers. (Also, AIUI, this is not about the archive videos, but the ‘clips’ feature, which allows viewers to save and share segments of a stream. It's cool, but wouldn't be missed that much if it disappeard entirely.)

• On the post: Twitch's Freak Out Response To RIAA Takedown Demands Raises Even More DMCA Questions

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2020 @ 10:32pm

  Re: trolling

  Go away, troll. If you have a problem with the site, nobody is forcing you to open it. So what if I only comment when I feel I have something to add? I wish more people did the same. My online presence is easy enough to find and you'll find it's 100% consistent with the views expressed in my comments. If it serves as additional proof to help clean the site of trolling, I'll tweet mentioning this incident in a few minutes. Sheesh.

• On the post: Twitch's Freak Out Response To RIAA Takedown Demands Raises Even More DMCA Questions

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2020 @ 05:10pm

  The missing piece of this puzzle…

  … is that Twitch is not a video hosting site. Its main purpose is live streaming. Clips are a minor feature that most people don't even use at all, and if they decided it's easier to just get rid of it entirely, it would have a very small impact. So my guess is, in this case, they decided it wasn't worth the bother.

• On the post: The Fortnite App Store Battle: A Real Antitrust Conundrum, Or Just A Carefully Planned Out Contract Negotiation?

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 18 Aug, 2020 @ 06:50pm

  The difference with consoles

  The difference with consoles is that in that world, the hardware is subsidized by that extra profit (or at least so we're told). Apple makes money in the hardware and the app store.

• On the post: Cracks Showing In Epic Store's PR War As Developers Have To Plead With Public To Not Harass Them

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2019 @ 01:01am

  vocal minority

  there is no real indication as to whether this is a vocal minority or majority, only that it is indeed vocal.

  IMO there's plenty of indication: sales. The developers who released exclusives seem to be quite happy, and the one developer whose numbers I know, well, those were really good numbers for the studio size and for an Early Access.

  So yeah. Definitely a vocal minority. It's more or less the same people who scream ‘go woke go broke’ and then don't know how to react when the movie makes a billion. ????

• On the post: FamilyTreeDNA Deputizes Itself, Starts Pitching DNA Matching Services To Law Enforcement

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2019 @ 04:45am

  Nope.

  A couple of years ago, I got a DNA test as a gift from someone close. I thought carefully about it and decided, nope, I don't think I want a random American company I know nothing about to have all my DNA information. Discreetly, being careful that the gift-giver never caught on, I threw the whole thing in a random rubbish bin in the street near the office.

  Since then, I've occasionally considered if I was too paranoid. Usually I concluded, ‘nah, I did the right thing’. But now I finally have proof and need wonder no more.

• On the post: Game Developer Embraces Modding Community So Much They Made Their Work An Official Release

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2018 @ 11:16am

  Previous cases

  And if we're talking about “previous art”, let's not forget Counter-Strike was originally a mod, then Valve hired the whole team and bought the rights, and released it as a regular product, complete with sequels.

• On the post: Engineers Say If Automated Cars Experience 'The Trolley Problem,' They've Already Screwed Up

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2016 @ 12:07am

  Nobody wants the car to drive poorly

  how to get self-driving cars to drive more like the inconsistent, sometimes downright goofy, and error-prone human beings

  
  
  This is IMO inaccurate. What we want instead is for them to get better at allowing for the goofy humans (like seeing that a human is being a bit too eager behind you on the right on red situation).

• On the post: French Regulating Body Says Google Must Honor Right To Be Forgotten Across All Of Its Domains

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2015 @ 12:15am

  Re:

  This. As far as I'm aware, most Europeans who even know about this ruling are opposed. But the EU court and parliament have pretty much no oversight or real popular representativity, and they do whatever they want.

• On the post: French Regulating Body Says Google Must Honor Right To Be Forgotten Across All Of Its Domains

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 24 Sep, 2015 @ 12:11am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Google is doing it wrong...

  When one is visiting a foreign country, one is supposed to obey local law.
  
  Caveat: I'm strongly opposed to the “‘right‘ to be forgotten”. But it's technically feasible, yes.

• On the post: Will Corporate Sovereignty Disputes Lead To Wars One Day?

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 23 Jun, 2015 @ 07:07am

  Will Corporate Sovereignty Disputes Lead To Wars One Day?

  If it's not scrapped soon, probably.
  
  But it will have to be in the next 20 years or so; any later, the way things are going, governments won't have enough power to do even that.

• On the post: Wall Street Journal Suggests Snowden Gave China Its 'Great Cannon' Software… Based On Pure Random Speculation

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2015 @ 07:30pm

  oh obviously, because Snowden is such an outspoken pro-censorship advocate.
  
  Oh wait.

• On the post: Netflix Moving To Encrypted Streams, As Mozilla Moves To Deprecate Unencrypted Web Pages As Insecure

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2015 @ 11:35pm

  Yeah, I'm with AC on this one. The (main) problem with requiring SSL is, certificates cost (a lot of) money, and there's a semi-monopoly on them. It increases the cost of starting a website, which hampers innovation.
  
  But then again, if SSL becomes more and more the standard, maybe there's greater incentive to fix this issue. I guess we'll see.
  
  Same for TKnarr's points. Most web developers work by running their application server on localhost. So now I need SSL and certificates for that too? Come on.

• On the post: Copyright Enforcement Bots Seek And Destroy Hugo Awards

  

  lalomartins ( profile ), 04 Sep, 2012 @ 11:17am

  Put some pressure in the other direction

  What I want to know is: will anybody sue Ustream and/or Vobile for the damages? There was clearly some loss.