So noted. The intent was to provide sufficient context (and reference for said context) since enough time has passed that people might not know that the Tivo of today is not the same legal entity as the original Tivo.
We should be glad the original articles haven't bit-rotted into non-existence with how bad the web has gotten...
* Provide a service that provides a great benefit (commercial skip) to get people hooked
* Build userbase based on this benefit
* Sue other people based on "infringement" of this feature
* Sell itself to a pure patent troll (Rovi) which then renames itself Tivo
* After model of extorting other companies over patent troll portfolio is exhausted, start extorting the customer base
https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...
"Rovi has aggressively pursued licensing deals and litigation for its patent portfolio, dating back to predecessor company Gemstar-TV Guide International. Rovi says it has more than 5,000 issued or pending patents worldwide, with intellectual-property licensing representing 54% of its total 2015 revenue.
According to Rovi, its patents are licensed by eight of the top 10 U.S. TV service providers, including AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications.
On Thursday, Rovi said in an SEC filing that reached a deal with Time Warner Cable â" which is in the process of being acquired by Charter â" to extend its existing interactive program guide and patent licensing agreement. The pact, which was set to expire March 31, has been extended through Dec. 31, 2016.
Last year, Rovi suffered a rare legal defeat against Netflix, after a U.S. federal judge ruled that the five Rovi-owned patents at issue in Rovi's lawsuit against the streaming-video company were invalid.
Rovi said it has not changed its financial estimates for 2016, which anticipated possible litigation with Comcast.
Separately, Rovi has reportedly been in talks to acquire DVR maker TiVo, which also has a sizable patent portfolio and won $1.6 billion to date from intellectual-property litigation."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertai...
"t's time to say goodbye, sort of, to the company whose pioneering DVR introduced consumers to time shifting and ad skipping. Some 17 years after it went public, TiVo just became a part of Rovi with the closing of a $1.1 billion cash and stock acquisition deal they made in May â" but with the buyer now adopting the TiVo name."
We (the residents of California) believe you, but the politicians/lobbyists don't.
Witness the real time collapse of our film industry.
The continuing damage from AB 5.
(see:
Trucking and Shipping Latest Victims of Californiaâ(TM)s âoeCruelest Law,â AB 5
https://www.pacificresearch.or... )
The 3d printer regulation bill (although we're just the latest state proposing this)
And the billionaire tax proposition.
The irony is if/when California does truly start running into difficult problems (all it takes is another financial downturn and our tax receipts will fall short), those same politicians/lobbyists will probably desert like fleas and migrate to adjoining states.
Can we just vote the bastards out? Please? It would also help if we could permanently attach scarlet letters that would essentially make them un-electable in the future.
This is getting stupid. It's like saying "we checked your travel time and we suspect you didn't walk under your own power for the entire journey". Who gives a fuck?
By Anthropic's description, if I write thousands of words of my own work and ask Claude to check for any spelling mistakes, and Claude says "one typo, you wrote CIa instead of CIA, fixed" what comes back has the watermark.
NOBODY KNOWS what Copilot apps they're using. Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft 365 Copilot? Copilot chat (available to Microsoft 365 subscribers)? Microsoft Copilot Studio? Github Copilot? Microsoft Copilot for iPhone?
beat me to it.
How did Microsoft blow this? It had everything it needed to be number one in everything to do with AI, and now its only users are people who don't have a choice.
Freenet is also based on middle-out compression.
No. Trying to push 30TB into Freenet will be interpreted as an attack on the network by other peers and they'll disconnect from your peer.
Freenet is better viewed as a communication medium than a storage medium. Data is prioritized according to demand, somewhat like an LRU cache. You can't upload 30TB and expect the network to preserve it for you.
On liability, running a Freenet peer is more like running network infrastructure that automatically routes and caches other people's traffic than intentionally publishing it. US law explicitly recognizes this distinction in the DMCA's provisions for transitory network communications and system caching. We discuss this in more detail in the FAQ.
You obviously haven't tried Freenet. You can join our room on River and you'll see no spam, no fraud, no hate speech, none of that.
Decentralized doesn't mean unmoderated. Systems built on Freenet can be moderated however their creators and communities want. River is moderated.
The difference is that nobody running one service gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to run.
Now that all this information is valuable (to AI bot scrapers), it's all being gatekept from humans who refuse to log in and participate in generating more valuable content for AI bot scrapers.
It's basically Farmville (but for scrapeable content), but restricted to the existing domesticated population of users. If you refuse to have a collar put on you, you no longer are allowed to access an echo copy of information that used to be on the open web before SEO garbage displaced it all.
Surfing with javascript turned off to help defend against drive-by 0-days? Half a dozen anti-bot systems either block or temp ban you. Use the wrong IP address, and reddit prevents access.
You could say this is a natural evolution of order in a capitalist society, as explained by Cory Doctorow's views on enshittification. However, I would argue this goes back even further to RMS' views on open vs closed software. Essentially, when no money is at stake, people are willing to share. When money is at stake, people start putting the things people were sharing behind closed doors and charging for entry.
If you extend the open source metaphor, being able to fork your posts theoretically allows individuals (and by extension a community) to transcend greed and censorship. Consider how much historical content (both virtual and IRL) has become cancellable in the last 4 presidential administrations, depending on which side of the current wave of bandwagoning you stand on. Even before that, how much content was rejected or "rewritten" on spaces like Wikipedia to satisfy the personal views of editors who staked out and camped specific areas on Wikipedia. Mind you, this was before Wikipedia became a force multiplier for influencing, which led to attacks by astroturfers and state actors.
Which then leads me to the question... what forkable, censorship resistant alternatives to reddit exist? I don't want to have a brand just to have my own legion of supporters to defend and reinstate me, or rely on glacial bureaucracy mandated by law if I get deplatformed just for having a conversation just because some AI bot had a bad day.
While what you say may be true for state and local law enforcement, it is not true for federal law enforcement.
https://www.mololamken.com/kno...
"Under Section 1001 of title 18 of the United States Code, it is a federal crime to knowingly and willfully make a materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the United States."
Actual text of the code:
https://uscode.house.gov/view....
"Â1001. Statements or entries generally
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully-
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years."
This is the statute under which Martha Stewart was sentenced to federal prison.
https://www.nyccriminalattorne...
"The interview isn't about solving the crime they're investigating. It's about creating a new one. When federal agents can't prove the underlying offense, they charge you with lying about it. Martha Stewart wasn't convicted of insider trading - she was convicted of lying to investigators about insider trading she was never found guilty of. The crime she went to prison for was created in the interview room. This is the federal playbook: investigate one thing, charge another. The conversation itself becomes the crime.
18 USC 1001 makes it a federal felony to make false statements to government agents. Five years in federal prison. $250,000 in fines. No oath required. You don't have to be in a formal interview room. You don't have to sign anything. A casual conversation on your front porch counts. Any federal matter, any federal agent, anywhere. And here's what nobody tells you: the agents asking questions usually already know the answers. They're not asking to learn what happened. They're testing whether you'll tell the truth."
I am also not a lawyer, so your mileage may vary.
Thanks for the heads up.
Have you tried setting up something like a whitelist (see below)? I feel like that would make my life a lot better - just having a process that filters out the obvious SEO sites so that I don't have to do it.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.
