If Cox is liable for user's copyright infringement then Tesla is liable for drivers speeding.

Not if there's a federal law that explicitly declares that middlemen are liable if they don't comply with the DMCA process, while there isn't a federal law saying car manufacturers are liable for speeding.

You might be looking at the underlying principles and making common sense value judgements, instead of reading what the law says.

This is ultimately why politics exists: to influence what the law is, in an attempt to make it more like your common sense value judgements. And it's really hard because these are issues that your congressional candidates probably aren't talking about at all, because they're talking about someone else's "important" [eyeroll] issues instead. We needed to stop DMCA in 1997/1998 and we failed.

The jury seemed to decide that accusations qualify as infringement

However regrettable, it's easy to understand how that can happen.

The jury could have just been told testimony that "we saw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx was seeding our movie" (with screenshots of MPAA's torrent client showing a seeder at that address and the packets they got from that address correctly matching the torrent's checksum). Meanwhile, Cox wouldn't have any evidence refuting it (even though the assertion isn't proven; the "screenshots" could have been made in GIMP for all we know). And then the jury might have ruled based on "preponderance" of evidence.

Kind of like 3 cops saying "the perp resisted arrest" and the perp saying "no I didn't" and a criminal jury (where the bar is much higher) still deciding that the perp resisted arrest. Sigh. You know that happens.

Had Cox ratted their customer out (or gotten a DMCA counternotice from them), then the customer could have been sued instead, and raised doubts by saying "I have an open wifi" or something like that. But Cox didn't, and they certainly aren't going to say "we have an open wifi" since they're in the network business so of course they don't offer free networking to strangers. It sounds like a difficult situation for Cox.

The story is light on details so I ass/u/me some things. The copyright infringement was likely due to torrents, i.e. from the internet's point of view, addresses owned by Cox were publishing/hosting content (under the hood: really Cox's customers seeding torrents).

So if I were an MPAA/RIAA -member company, I'd send Cox a DMCA notice ("Cox, stop sharing my copyrighted work") which really means "Cut that customer off or otherwise make them stop, or else get a DMCA counternotice from them, so I can go after them instead of you." And if that's what happened, then it sounds like Cox said no (didn't make it stop and also didn't pass the buck to their customers. So they sued Cox instead of Cox's customers.

But that's based on assumptions and speculation, hence my question. But yes, I know what a DMCA notice is and I think that mechanism was likely in involved at some point in the story.

Is John Cage's famous minimalist piece acceptable?

If not, how will they prevent people from playing it?

It's unclear from the articles whether or not this happened: did the record labels send DMCA notices to Cox, which Cox blew off (thereby becoming liable in place of the original suspected infringer)? Or did the record labels just sue 'em first?

Prior to 1998 they wouldn't have been liable (just like Western Digital and Seagate aren't liable for whatever I may be suspected of doing) but DMCA makes hosting services (and networks? hmm...) a special case, unlike power utilities, computer equipment manufacturers, etc.

Anyone else remember the Intel chips failing on encryption with 10th gen cores? Most online games would crash at startup as they initialized OpenSSL, used by almost everything. Intel still has part of the workaround, disable Intel extensions, which is still sometimes needed for older games.

Except I did -- which is why I posted what I posted. He didn't cling on to beeper like he did pebble, took a great offer and, at least for now, his staff remain employed. Like most acqs Migicovsky will likely depart in a year or two after everything transfers over to Automatic.

Don't get me wrong, I still have my main pebble watch and about 7 others I got at a firesale and they all still work. Loved pebble and would have like to have seen it continue -- but that just wasn't going to happen after other, much begger companies with deeper pockets got in to the smartwatch market -- and Mig didn't see that and lost out on getting enough money to fund a dozen start ups.

"It's much easier to buy out your competitors to stop people from using alternatives to their messaging system."

A bit, of that -- but a healthy dose of Eric Migicovsky learning from not taking a buyout offer of $700+ million for pebble to walking away with next to nothing a year or two later.

Steve Miller Band had it right... "Take the money and run".

The underfunded state of the FAA has forced SpaceX to launch less often than than they would have were they not waiting on overworked FAA officials to approve launch licences. SpaceX's development model is to iterate quickly: design, build, test (launch), redesign, build, test (launch), etc. The FAA's pace of delivering launch licenses has slowed this process down to the point where SpaceX scraps Spaceships that they would normally have flown but could not because SpaceX builds the biggest rockets ever built faster than the FAA licenses.

SpaceX already proposed LAST YEAR to finance the FAA so that they can staff up to the level SpaceX will need them to be, making TFA's baitclicky "Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace" about as close to reality as utterances from Trump or Putin.

You're apparently defending a party that's spent literal YEARS at this point doing absolutely nothing but shutting down whatever parts of the government they can't just weaponize directly.
Ivan, does your mom know you're shitposting again? Isn't it kinda late in Russia? Does she still know you're awake?

Wait, did Biden publicly state he's going to spend his next term using every toolin the Fed's arsenal to get retribution against his political rivals and marginalized groups? Did he state he'd happily take money from foreign governments to pay off debts? Has he stated he'd like to disassemble the Constitution to the point where it only applied to him and his cult? Did he already attempt a coup and fail?
No?

Then shut the ever loving fuck up about them being anything even close to the same. I'm not a huge fan of Biden for my own reasons, but my ire isn't strong enough to happily hand the entire government to a wanna be tin pot manchild of a dictator. If yours is please let me, and others, know so we can take appropriate action to defend ourselves.
If you support Der Turmpenfurer, you are a traitor to your country and should be considered an insurgent and possible terrorist*.

*when you're part of a group who has REGULARLY started using death threats to judges and politicians in order to achieve your goals, you are a terrorist. Go look up the fucking word if you don't believe me.

#TrumpForPrison2024

...is "just trust us".

Well, I for one feel safe and reassured that the companies well known for shady business practices and clever lawyer tricks has told us to trust them. It's not like they would lie to make money, after all. That would be silly and illegal!

If you've ever bought gas, you helped pay for it.

Even if you never bought any gas, your tax dollars paid for some of it, in the form of subsidies.

Yup. Amazing how centuries before the science explained it, accurate measurements spanning years were able to indicate something was happening. They could measure the timings of major events like eclipses change over years to discover a rate that over a single day or month is imperceptible.

Really the only reliable way to prevent an AI from giving out a particular type of info is to avoid training it on that info. Eg if you donâ(TM)t want your AI giving out bomb-making instructions, donâ(TM)t train it on bomb-making instructions.

Of course, removing harmful info from the training sets at scale is its own tough problem; maybe they could train an AI to do that.