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> PopcornTime has never itself been guilty of copyright violation,

Take a look at Fonovisa vs Cherry Auction, a landmark case in developing the concept of “contributory copyright infringement” and “vicarious infringement.” This was a key precedent in the case that effectively shut down Napster.

Cherry Auction was a swap meet that was the site of the sale of counterfeit recordings (probably cassette tapes, it was early 90s) including counterfeits infringing on copyrights held by Fonovisa Inc. It was established that the swap meet knew that alleged piracy was going on; among other things there had been a massive police raid after which such sales continued.

The swap meet’s position was essentially what you are saying — I don’t do any infringement, not my problem. A district court agreed but was overturned on appeal, with the appeals court reasoning, to oversimplify, that the swap meet routinely patrolled vendors, gated admission by consumers, and reaped financial benefit in the form of rent — essentially it had the knowledge and power to stop the infringement, and profited by failing to do so, therefore it was a party to the infringement.

I don’t explain any of this to say the takedown here is necessarily right, just to give some context. And admittedly context only applicable to the app’s US legality. Namely, it’s not enough for PopcornTime to not itself infringe, under the law as now understood. (IANAL, btw! Just followed some cases.) It needs to be in a position where it is not materially contributing to the infringement — knowingly and directly.

I believe vicarious infringement has a financial benefit prong (which popcorn time as a volunteer effort may lack) but that contributory infringement does not. At least based on the wording in Fonovisa which is almost 25 years old https://copyrightalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Fon...

In the Napster case, Napster’s control of the central search index proved key in establishing it enabled and knew about infringement. The particulars of how popcorntime works are presumably important in establish whether it is knowingly and directly enabling infringement. And liability for github if any is going to be murkier — they are some hops out here from the infringement of (some) popcorntime users.
No data is. You can't judge the security or privacy of a design based on people selling it out in secret.
It’d be a very drastic, but arguably fairly effective solution.
In this case, I think the reason their plausible deniability goes out the window is the pre-configured options to search for illegal content.

It'll be interesting to see if removing those files from Popcorn Time does, in fact, get them reinstated.
> The current US presidents violent rhetoric against the press should make people a lot angrier than it has so far

Why? He hasn't said it should be restricted in any way, he's said it's been biased and doing a bad job. That's a completely fair criticism.
Publishing details on how to commit crime is definitely not illegal, so your analogy doesn't hold up here.

Also, you can't simultaneously claim that they "bore some responsibility" and then try to put off "discussion about whether digital piracy should be illegal". Claiming they have moral responsibility is opening a discussion about what's right and wrong, which is at the heart of any serious notion about what should be illegal.
I get occasional instances. I've let everyone know to let me know if they're experiencing issues and I can check the log and whitelist specific material that needs it.

That comes up now and again, not as much as you'd expect but enough that I needed to give instruction on it. Funny thing is, most of those cases are _me_ doing things like signing into Nvidia's software instead of anyone else here.
This is weak evidence for that conclusion. LeanPub makes it possible to buy a free book, so everyone who came for the free copy had an opportunity to immediately “tip” the author.
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By "many people in amazon", you don't mean those "minimum wage or low wage laborers" in the warehouses, right?

I suspect most of them who know about it appreciate Tim Bray standing up for them and consider it a "meaningful way".

I don't understand what you are saying is a "more meaningful way" than what. You are saying keeping your mouth shut at work and just calling your legislator is a "more meaningful way to change the conditions"?

That's a nice story to tell yourself when you want to preserve your good salary and safe working conditions that the workers in the warehouse don't have. I couldn't really say if most well-paid employees at Amazon agree or not, I'm not familiar with enough of them.

But if we can't learn to protect each other, we've got nothing. This is not a test.
Mainly SSH, because in my college SSH outgoing/incoming traffic was restricted
But it can work with any TCP protocol thru HTTP
There's been a lot of speculation and conflicting information, but I recently read that a supposedly random sample of people in NY (I assume state, not city) supermarkets found about 16% had antibodies for covid.

So it's my belief currently that the reported case numbers are on the order of 1/10th the total and one in six people probably has it.

Edit: is this controversial? Do people not believe NY state did such a study? WTF??
If we paint privacy as simply black or white, sure. But if there exist shades of grey in privacy than Apple and Facebook are on vastly different sides of the spectrum.
Do you think this could be alleviated with something like VR? Even cheap VR with just your phone in a VR headset holder.

To me, it feels like a technical problem. Staring at a small screen in a browser window vs being immersed. Even being able to "see" your classmates or an avatar for them might help.
Background checks don't prevent people from doing what they like. What would the parallel be with software? Checking their criminal history for piracy or hacking crimes before allowing software downloads? Absurd.
Everyone is going to catch this. Either I wait around for it to happen or I volunteer. I’d rather volunteer.
> About 21% percent of New York City was testing positive for antibodies.

From samples returned 10 days ago, so add a bit more lag.

It's not beyond the realm of possibility that New York City has reached the herd immunity threshold. The biggest estimates of variance in contact networks and susceptibility (from fitting to case count data) predict a herd immunity threshold of ~15%. (Cited above).

> We don't seem to be able to ramp up testing

Testing, shmesting. It only provides a minimal adjustment to Rt; sensitivity isn't great, and you can't test everyone every day.

> we haven't gotten the infection rate down to the point where contact tracing would work

Nor will we. The most aggressive lockdowns produce case count decays of 40% or so per week-- possibly less. The suggested threshold for where contact tracing can work well is 1 infection per million population. The SF Bay Area probably has about 3500x that. -ln(3500)/ln(0.6) =~ 16 weeks.

IHME was predicting the virus would magically go away in California with continued shelter in place in the next 3 weeks. They just backed away from this crazy prediction that the data has never fit. However, policymakers depended upon it in making the tradeoff: aggressive policies aimed at control could be justified if they'd really get us to a sustainable containment regime in a couple months.

> And significant portions of the US seem to be giving up on control and going for a herd immunity strategy.

In the end, the only long term paths are to radically change our way of life forever, or herd immunity. There's only really one vaccine effort that could deliver tens of millions of doses to North America by mid-2021, and that's the Johnson & Johnson program. Odds of that program's success are 50-50 at best.
Also remember gopher is still alive. My gopher list:

1436.ninja

1436.ninja/1/Port70News

1436.ninja/1/Project_Gutenberg_in_Gopherspace

2f30.org

bay.parazy.de

bitreich.org

box.matto.nl

floodgap.com

fritterware.org

gopher.gluon.me

gopher.viste.fr

gopher.viste.fr/1/ogup/list

gopher://661.org/1if-archive

gopher://adamsgaard.dk/1

gopher://ascraeus.org/1/books

gopher://ftp.icm.edu.pl

gopher://gopher.661.org

gopher://gopher.leveck.us

gopher://gopher.xpenguin.club

gopher://p3x981.com

gopher://republic.circumlunar.space/1/~katolaz/phlog

gopherddit.com

gopherpedia.com

hngopher.com

magical.fish

mozz.us

msbgtn01.synchro.net

port70.net/1/chan

rawtext.club

schinkel.bevuta.com

sdf.org

sdf.org/1/users/julienxx/Lobste.rs

khzae.net/1/chan

bbs.synchro.net/1grp:fidonet

##Usenet is alive too. If you set slrn killing all

##spam, a lot of newsgroups are still bearable.

comp.lang.c

comp.lang.moderated

comp.unix.shell
I noticed you completely ignored how all the cryptocurrencies lost way more value than any alternative, but I'll just assume you ceded that point to me.

> There's no single point of failure if any single point can fail without destroying the private key. Cash is inferior in many ways, can't restore from backup if you've burned a $100 bill to ashes by accident.

Again, the key is a single point of failure. No matter how many copies. And nobody uses or advocates for physical cash specifically for these reasons.

> Nice in theory, doesn't really work in practice. Look up how little the insurance funds actually have per every insured account. Where I live, accounts are insured up to 100 000 EUR and the insurance fund has 400 EUR per account. Should shit hit the fan with any bigger bank, the money printing press will go brrrrrr and everyone will get poorer through inflation, because the insurance fund has nowhere near the money to cover the promised amount. Crypto exchanges can't rob customers like that, their failures are more obvious.

It's literally worked for a hundred years. The FDIC was put in place after the great depression and since then nobody has lost a single penny of insured deposits. Nobody. Not in 2008, not during COVID, not at any point along the way. Zero dollars.

On the other hand, hundreds of millions are lost in crypto exchanges all. The. Time. Not a week goes by without people losing their life savings due to hacks, negligence and fraud. And nobody can help them. Because that's the point. It's intended behavior.

Yes, governments could print money. No, printing money doesn't always lead to inflation. Since the 1970s, the M2 money supply has increased 15X and yet inflation has remained a well controlled 2% per year, totaling 7X. Printing money doesn't actually cause inflation. Surprising right? A lot of that has to do with expansion of the population and the economy. I suggest digging in and learning more about macroeconomics. [1]

Then the most important part: don't hold large quantities of money -- invest it. Then you're utterly safe from inflation.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2011/05/14/money-gr...
I don't think apps are allowed to do this on Android any more. You can designate that an app can only have location access while the app is open and in use.
Hospitals have had such systems for decades: Negative pressure rooms make sure that the bad air goes out through an exhaust that you can clean or at least keep well away from people. Some cars have HEPA filters, and airplanes often have more sophisticated systems than that.
The authors of "What is Mathematics" are Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins. This one is good as well: "Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning" by Aleksandrov, Kolmogorov and Lavrent'ev (Dover publications). It's a big book covering a wide amount of topics.
Would it help to replace the overhead lights with UV lights?

Not necessarily for use when someone's in the seat, but also to blast in-between flights before the next batch comes on.
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Those are all C19 symptoms. Get an antibody test and find out!
This is (legally) a fair point. If you're linking to illegal content then perhaps that is grounds under this particular ruling for a takedown.

In general though, I object to links themselves being illegal content. If you give somebody the phone number of a drug dealer, can you be charged with selling or distribution of drugs?
That was a very long video considering the content.
I mean, so does Pinterest, and they IPOed just fine.
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This just sounds like ad-hominem to me. How is this relevant to the truth of the statements in the parent comment?
All great thoughts -- you sound like a generous guy :)

> Those who can't do, teach

I'm with you. I'd change that phrase to "Those who have done, should teach".

Reminds me of an idea I think I read in one of Nassim Taleb's books...that growth of education tends to follow the growth of industry, since industry is where a great portion of tinkering and experimentation is happening.
Required? Not really. You can work without a central server, pulling from individuals machines over SFTP or SMB as we did for a few years in the early 2010s.

It was always awkward and we moved to GitHub shortly before I left.
What I find very interesting specifically with the case you describe here is that this is directly opposite to Section 230. Where tech companies have terms and moderation and rules on what people can do on their platforms which they enforce as they see fit for profit purposes... but then turn around and claim immunity for responsibility for any illegal actions that take place within those platforms.
My Vegas-resident brother-in-law loved counting cards and betting on unpopular baseball teams, both of which involved entering casinos. Perhaps data is better than our two anecdotes?
Yeah, makes sense. Just a different way of describing the same thing. Sound logic that led in the right direction if not (yet) to the right destination.

More generally, probably a useful distinction to keep in mind, between when science is offering us a direction and a theory vs when we really do have the evidence required to be fairly confident we're at the destination.

Of course even then there are often deeper layers—floors within the destination building say, to torture the analogy. But that kind of distinction is different from the one between a guess that fits the evidence so far and something that is reasonably known.
People had similar concerns when motorcars first became available. i.e., my horse can jump over obstacles that motorcars never will, and so on. Eventually humans made roads specifically for motorcars.
Seems to imply you also need to add electronics and motor(s).
This also just came out. This New Jersey mayor tested positive [1] for coronavirus antibodies. And he says he got sick in November 2019.

Unless, the antibody test gave a false positive, and he did not get the virus. Then, how the hell did an American politician get the virus, before China even noticed it on their radar, and reported it to the W.H.O. in December 2019?

This timeline also seems to coincide with CDC warnings of strange flu and pneumonia patterns late last year, with people having more difficult symptoms than normal.

If you recall getting very sick late last year in 2019, then you should consider taking a coronavirus antibody test, to confirm whether you got the virus or not.

[1] https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/nj-mayor-thinks-he-ha...
There should be. There are a few options. UV-C in the air handlers seems like the easiest retrofit but I’m not sure how effective it is.
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> I can understand why the public is skeptical

You can understand the skepticism and yet equate the skeptical people to "anti-vax" movement? That's very sneaky of you.
Does that mean these people never take vacations? Or do they get a ton of vacation time?
I'd heard that there were some.. risk of increased attack surface, lets say, by allowing userland access to namespaces for devices/mount points, but I'm not familiar with what this would really look like. What could be done to mitigate these security concerns so that everyone is comfortable enabling it?
Analogies rarely work in law. Just because you can construe some imaginary scenario about murder doesn't mean law actually works this way. DMCA notice is to notify hoster about copyright infringement. Not about any illegal activity whatsoever, but specifically about infringing somebody's copyright on specific works. The content of that repo didn't infringe anybody's copyright, therefore whoever submitted that notice is a liar and possibly a perjurer.
On the world stage:

• America will still be a strong player, but not completely dominant anymore.

• China will successfully assert itself in East Asia, OR force Japan, Taiwan, Phillipines, Vietnam, etc into a strong anti-China alliance.

• India and Europe will act more and more independently of the US.

• Turkey will seek to assert itself in former Ottoman territories, possibly leading to a period of peace in the Middle East if successful.

Technologically:

• Nothing groundbreaking in computer hardware.

• Still no self driving cars or compelling voice interfaces.

• Electric cars gain ground, but other forms of electric transportation become wildly popular.

• Having a driving license will become less common. Driving may become something left to the professionals, with more stringent tests and requirements.

• Meat alternatives become mainstream. People start to look down upon eating real meat.

Socially/economically:

• Continued urbanisation of the population.

• Continued slowing the the birth rate.

• Dwelling places keep getting smaller.

• Long term monogamous relationships become more uncommon.

• Wage stagnation

• Retail shopping almost dies out

• Entertainment is mostly online

Politically:

• Prison abolition movement will become stronger.

• Primitivist movement will get much bigger. They will seek to return to the country and a more independent, primitive way of life. When laws and social circumstances don't allow this they will turn to terrorism.
The law fundamentally builds on the concept of intent: Did I give you Steve's phone number, or did I give you the phone number of Steve, my drug dealer, because you were interested in buying drugs from him. Criminal law depends on both the actual act, and the intention to commit a crime. That's why most technical workarounds people claim should exempt them from the law tend to not work: The intent is the same.

Disclaimer: I do not actually have a drug dealer named Steve.
I can't say for certain, but I would guess it has something to do with the idea that all people must be available to each other at all times for the sake of raw productivity. So if there is a problem there is no time to wait. You just walk right up to the person you need to speak with and get it resolved then and there.

Open offices facilitate that feeling of persistent accessibility and production. No closed doors to slow anyone down, and no notion that you are there to do anything but work every minute of every day. So why on Earth would anyone need privacy?

This is full-on agile ethos. And, for the same reason, agile is also responsible for the reversal of telecommute policies at some companies.
I'm not saying one anecdote along is sufficient evidence. But I've seen a fair few cases where content creators who previously had little audience or readership suddenly gained one by giving away their content for free.

In the digital age, it is so easy to copy books, films, TV shows. The arguments against making it legal, is that film studios will make less money. But what percentage of people are currently not pirating content because it's illegal? I'd say a very very small handful.

I would much rather have the option to obtain a copy for free, and donate to the author if I thought it was worth it. Patreon works exactly like this.
What does "mild" mean?
Dude. That's literally what airplanes do. I don't know where people got the idea that the air in a cabin is "recycled". The air in an airplane will fully cycle with fresh new air every 4 or 5 minutes to remove carbon dioxide build-up.

The air you breathe on an airplane is the air that is compressed by the engines or the auxiliary power unit, cooled down by the A/C, and diverted to the cabin after passing through a HEPA filtering system.

People get sick in planes simply because it's a freaking small tube with hundreds of people sharing the space for several hours. It wouldn't be different than putting the same amount of people on a ground facility with the same dimensions and good ventilation.
Have you got a link / source for this? Genuinely interested, not being a dick.
After reading about these absurd airline proposals, obviously we need herd immunity ASAP - how else is our society going to function again?

So go ahead and hug a stranger!
I have contact with the warehousing industry. Most workers are neither making $15/hr nor receiving any sort of benefits.
Good luck implementing it in other side of the world (India). You can't refuse if Govt mandates it. So what's the point in Apple and Google wants to control Privacy. I can trust Govt more than Greedy Private companies.
I don't think the main concern is virus particles left over from previous flights. It's the person sitting within 3-5 rows of you for 2 hours during your own flight.
The plan is to have no plan
If we get the case count low enough we can open up and do contact tracing until the vaccine arrives or it's eliminated... if we open up before it's that low, everyone gets it.
I’m sure the argument is that Napster- and Grokster-style contributory infringement is infringement. I have a hard time imagining source code enticing people to infringe copyright, but if the program encourages infringement, I suppose the repository is a logical target.

I won’t predict whether the contributory infringement argument will win. I’m sure the law was written with direct infringement in mind, but I don’t think that rules out creative interpretations by itself.

I believe the clearest approach would be for the MPA to not bother with a DMCA notice, and just sue the project directly. But if you can get what you want on the cheap, why not try? And I’m not sure a lawsuit against the project would do much good: even assuming the MPA were to get an injunction, they’d need to play whack-a-mole to track down anybody using the PopCornTime code.
Makes no sense to separate people from their children or partners who they live with. Not everyone travels alone.
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As it happens there is no such thing as a DMCA notice for contributory copyright infringement its a straightforward fraudulent claim to own the resource named. If they can find anyone to sue locally they might win but they can't just make it up as they go along.
Never actually thought of that, to be honest.

But for the most part, I imagine it won't make much of a difference. I live within 300 miles of the data center containing my EC2 instance.
Perhaps use the link posted by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23075544 instead.
well based on that belief I think you might have your answers to why you went through this experience. you clearly value discovering both sides of things and you say you want to integrate that. The positive take I have on that is you want to integrate all of that information positive and negative into something stronger and more real. that's ultimately more creative and future looking then the CEO kiddies who just ride the wave of success.

not to pep talk at all but possibly you could be setting yourself up for something great in future. jobs had a pretty terrible time getting fired by the Soda executive.

the thinking of it this way and I'm just brainstorming here perhaps any resistance you have to moving forward with this new perspective could be related to the fact that you're comfortable with how you now see yourself. no longer the hundred percent optimist doing something positive for the world. it's a more compromised position. you're more embracing the shadow side as well. I can understand why that would be hard but depending on your path it might be useful and could be your destiny.