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Submission + - Cops Are Playing Music While Citizens Are Filming To Trigger Copyright Filters (vice.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department, only to be treated to a mini DJ set that could potentially get his Instagram account banned. Sennett Devermont was at the department to file a form to obtain body camera footage from an incident in which he received a ticket he felt was unfair. Devermont also happens to be a well-known LA area activist, who regularly live-streams protests and interactions with the police to his more than 300,000 followers on Instagram. So, he streamed this visit as well—and that’s when things got weird.

In a video posted on his Instagram account, we see a mostly cordial conversation between Devermont and BHPD Sgt. Billy Fair turn a corner when Fair becomes upset that Devermont is live-streaming the interaction, including showing work contact information for another officer. Fair asks how many people are watching, to which Devermont replies, “Enough.” Fair then stops answering questions, pulls out his phone, and starts silently swiping around—and that’s when the ska music starts playing. Fair boosts the volume, and continues staring at his phone. For nearly a full minute, Fair is silent, and only starts speaking after we’re a good way through Sublime’s “Santeria.”

Assuming that Fair wasn’t just trying to share his love of ’90s stoner music with the citizens of Beverly Hills, this seems to be an intentional (if misguided) tactic to use social media companies' copyright protection policies to prevent himself from being filmed. Instagram in particular has been increasingly strict on posting copyrighted material. Any video that contains music, even if it’s playing in the background, is potentially subject to removal by Instagram. Most people complain about these rules. Beverly Hills law enforcement, however, seems to be a fan.

Comment Re:I love how I walk away from my Win10 machine, (Score 1) 232

by webmistressrachel (#60819880) Attached to: Microsoft Will Start Force Upgrading Windows 10 For Some Users

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Comment Re:At least they're not sacrificing Apple 1s (Score 1) 25

by webmistressrachel (#60819840) Attached to: Inside the Obsessive World of Miniature Arcade Machine Makers

Miniature CRT's and tiny flyback transformers are the only way to go! Now we just to convince Sony to fire up the Trinitron plant again and we're rolling (fat chance). Also, CRT's contained lead.

I loved my 1600x1200@85Hz Trinitrons, but they guzzled more power than the GPU(s), and now I have four OLED tablets and two OLED phones

To make this better, they could build a custom resolution (or just standard and use the center) OLED display, similar to PS Vita, and show the scanlines with perfectly dark pixels on the blank lines which appear on many old CRT based system.

Comment Re: A Darwin Award for him (Score 0) 286

Less people died of Covid than the Flu, also, the tests for Covid are triggered by inactive fragments of other coronaviruses! This is about a digital id system and Agenda 21, not the puny seasonal flu virus aka Covid 19! Pay Microsoft or be a leper in society, social credit system INCOMING!

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