Michael Weinberg

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Exec Dir @nyuengelberg.org, Board Member @oshwassociation.bsky.social, Formerly GC @ Shapeways & many things @publicknowledge.bsky.social NYC/Berlin

The main findings over this 18-month period include: • A 85% increase in website visits to RAMM’s website around the time of the open access announcement; • A total of 12,880,510 Wikipedia page views of articles containing RAMM images; RAMM images featured across 32 different Wikipedia languages, including English, Portuguese, Slovak, Urdu and Korean; • A total of 529 downloads of RAMMs open access 3D models from SketchFab; • A further 11 local cultural heritage organisations uploading works open access in collaboration with RAMM.
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Comment on circumvention, February 17, 2000 Carl Fleischhauer, Technical Coordinator, National Digital Library Program David A. Francis, Chief, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division Library of Congress PREFACE: The following comment is from staff of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division and the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress regarding the prohibition on circumvention of technological controls on access to copyrighted works. This comment pertains to the rulemaking regarding circumvention discussed in 64 FR 66139 and in the “Copyright Notices” newsletter for December 1999 (page 3). The rulemaking is associated with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is intended to determine if there are classes of works whose users are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in the user’s ability to make non-infringing uses if they may not circumvent technological measures. COMMENT: The Library of Congress audio-visual-collection preservation team believes that it may be necessary for the Library to circumvent technological controls on access to copyrighted works in order to preserve digital audio-visual works for the long term. Such preservation of audio-visual materials has always been part of the mission of the Library and other legitimate research archives, and the process has always entailed copying. For example, older sound recordings on wire reels and magnetic tape formats have been copied into new formats as the historical wire recordings and magnetic tapes deteriorated or were determined to be likely to deteriorate. The staff charged with the responsibility for preserving audio-visual collections foresees that digital content will also require copying for preservation. For example, as a compact disk begins to show signs of deterioration, the digital signal on the disk must be transferred to other media to avert loss. The Library has not made a definitive study of the copyright protection technolog
Dear Government, I'm sure you've gotton hundreds of letters from pitifull crybabies whining about the loss of their puny little freedoms to have access to information. Information is not a given right in the constitution. They have freedom of speech, not freedom of writing. Maybe they are whining because their jobs depend on reverse engineering software to make sure that it is not doing anything unauthorized to their computers. Well boo-hoo. What these people have to realize is that unless tight controls are in place on them by tbe government or large corporations, anarchy will result.
The other major problem with the MPAA's line of reasoning is that distribution of an illegally digitally copied DVD movie is near impossible. They file size is somewhere between 1 and 5 GIGABYTES OF DATA. This means that even if one had one's own web server, with a fancy, incredibly fast Internet connection of, say, 10,000,000 bits per second (or 1.25 megabytes per second) it would still take an average of 45 minutes to download a single movie. Now you might say, "Well, 45 minutes isn't really a whole lot of time.", to which I would add, "But less than .1% of Americans connected to the Internet have this type of connection." Much more common are the so called "Cable Modem" or "DSL" broadband Internet services. These can provide a user with upwards of 200,000 bits per second of download speed. At this rate, it would take about 37.5 HOURS to download a pirated DVD movie. The kicker here is that only somewhere between 10% and 20% of Internet users have this fast a connection. By far the most common kind of Internet connection is the so called "56k" modem. A "56k" modem can provide download speeds of up to 53,000 bits per second, though it is most often lower than this and can dip as low as 28,800 bits per second. Even at it's maximum rate of download, it would take a "56k" modem approximately 5.25 DAYS to download a pirated DVD movie. Why would anybody want to do this when, if you are really bent on illegally copying a movie, you can got to the local video store, spend $5 to rent a movie and copy it onto a $2 blank VHS cassette. Adding in travel time to and from the video store, and if you actually wanted to watch the tape while you where copyng it, this would take less than 3 hours and only cost you $7
In my opinion DeCSS cannot possibly be used to infringe copyrights because NOBODY is going to put a 5 Gigabyte movie on the internet, I wouldn't even save one on my hard drive. DVD's take up to much space and have the ability to take up to 17 Gigs! Please stop this unfair treatment of people who simply want to be able to use their LEGALLY BOUGHT DVD's on their computers.
DVD will be no different. If anything, DVD is even less accessible. Consumer DVD recorders are far beyond the horizon, and any storage method in the forseeable future would result in the abuser spending MORE money for a copy of the tape. At 4 or 5 gigs per video, each video would cost a pirate: Assumed 200$ for a 20 gig hard drive, 5 gigs per digital video, (5 / 20) * 200 = 50$ per movie. Compared to 10-15$ to buy the official DVD, this is somehow a threat?
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screenshot of the paragraph "“In the business community, she has the unfortunate reputation of being an ideologue, but a smart one,” said Kathy Wylde, who heads the business advocacy group Partnership for New York City. “Tactics that encourage litigation will not help New York become more affordable.”"
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View of the calculating empires installation from the outside
a pink shed with climbing holds next to an apartment building
Robert Redford, looking cool, standing next to Bono, looking like a dork
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Color lithograph of the champion sitting on an old tyme bike
Color lithograph of the champion
TOC screenshot: III. COPYRIGHT , THE WEAPON PAR EXCELLENCE .......................... 226 A. Why Copyright? ............................................................... 227 1. Everything Is Copyrighted and Everyone Is an Infringer ................................................................. 227 2. Copyright Disputes Are Expensive and Copyright Weaponizers Are Motivated ...................................... 229 3. Copyright’s Remedies Allow Suppression of Content with Limited First Amendment Review....................... 230 4. Copyright’s Extrajudicial Remedy Encourages Weaponization......................................................... 231 5. Copyright Defenses Fail to Discourage Copyright Weaponization...........................
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Here’s another chart of the server load during a swarm (they tried to reset the server in the middle)
Line chart of user visits over an 8 month period. Traffic is generally at about 500 visits per day. Approximately every month the traffic spikes to 9 or 10 thousand.
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Another slide, another certification
Another presentation slide with certified hardware logos
a product with an OSHWA certification logo
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Presenter standing in front of two screens with OSHWA logos on slides
list of titles on a registration page, options are "No Title," "Ms," "Mr," "Dr," and "Prof"
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Map of the flight from the UK to Australia, including all of the places they stopped
heat map of all of the countries with certified open source hardware
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rbb|24: Hello Mrs. Drenske, if you were an animal, would you like to be a squirrel in Germany? Sinah Drenske : I think I would like to be a squirrel. And this also prefers in Germany. Because here you have it quite good as a squirrel. You can also hide pretty well from your enemies. rbb|24: Which enemies would you have? Sinah Drenske : Marders, cats and various birds of prey are the enemies of the squirrels in this country. Dogs and foxes are not.
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screenshot of a complaint "Because M.Z. is a teenager, RRI involved his parents, imploring them to properly supervise their son as the law requires them to do. They refused. RRI therefore brings this action against M.Z. to stop his damaging activities and recover compensation for the damage he has caused.”
705. Plaintiff also disables the right-click copy function on its images prior to distribution. 706. The Alibaba Defendants removed the copyright protection system and enabled the right-click copy function.
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Super Mario Strikers is a five-a-side football console video game comprising characters and themes from the Mario series. Each team consists of a captain character from the Mario series and three secondary Mario characters known as "sidekicks".[3] Kritter is the goalkeeper for all sides except the "Super Team", which consists of four captain robots and a Robo-Kritter. Both sidekicks and captains have varying gameplay attributes with "balanced" and "defensive" play types available.[7] Strikers follows the basic gameplay featured in most football video games, including the ability to dash, tackle players, and lob the ball. Despite this,
FAKE DIRECTORIES. Probably the worst infested city in the country, so far as fraudulent direc- tories is concerned, is New York.
Speaking of time, is a reminder of the troublous times caused by a peculiar condition incident to the manner of keeping time at Detroit. The city itself still runs by astronomical time, or * local time™ so-called. The railroads and most of the hotels run on **Standard ™ time ; while right across the river, in Canada, “ Eastern ” time prevails. The result is a peculiar mix-up. One is never certain just where he is at, and the endeavor to make the necessary allowances for the differences involve a constant bewilderment. It proves diffi- cult to a stranger to remember what is to be done with the half hour difference —whether it is to be added to or sub- tracted from the time which he may be carrying.
This book has been composed over the course of some fifteen years. Its inception goes back to 1963 when I read Carl Bridenbaugh's presidential address to the American Historical Association. This address which was entited 'The Great Mutation' belonged to an apocalyptic genre much in vogue at the time (and unfortunately still ubiquitous)."
To find a name you must first know how to spell it.
In preparing this book the publishers have spared neither time nor expense, and if errors occur or a single name is omitted which should appear in the work, i tis generally the fault of the public and not the publishers
READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS in this Book. The firms represented are the Progressive Merchants of the City.
episode title: TECH: Demystifying Computers for Attorneys
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10. If there were any doubt regarding Udio’s unauthorized copying, Udio dispelled it by effectively conceding in pre-litigation correspondence that it copied Plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings. When Plaintiffs directly accused Udio of copying Plaintiffs’ sound recordings to train its model, Udio did not deny or proffer any facts to undermine those allegations. It would have been simple for Udio to say that it used other, legally acquired recordings, if that were the case. Instead, Udio deflected and disingenuously asserted that its training data is “competitively sensitive” and constitutes “trade secrets”—despite being based on “publicly available” music “out there” for music fans. Udio also claimed that its large-scale copying of sound recordings is “fair use,” which was telling because fair use only arises as a defense to an otherwise unauthorized use of a copyrighted work.
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@NotNormalthc: Good Job man :) @bearsstuff: Thank you
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