Hacker News Reader

nadermxon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

Backpage is on point as well as the overall point is the same, you cant be liable for crimes related to the inital crime if its not actually a crime. Ie if the gains are not ilgotten, you can't be tried for laundering them.

If you follow the DMCA (e.g., honor takedown notices, register an agent if you’re a platform, and act quickly when notified), your exposure to criminal liability is essentially zero.

nadermxon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

The DMCA absolutely applies. If you follow it, which includes no induction or willfull infrigment, you never rise out of civil liability to criminal. The FBI gets involved once you're past that.

nadermxon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

You are misapropriating. Copyright infrigment can become criminal if you willfully violate it. If you then take earnings from the willful infrigment and launder them, it becomes other crimes. But if you follow the DMCA and qualify for safe harbor, what copyright crime have you commited that would go to criminal?

Or to give you another example in backpage the founders where aquitted since the judge could not trace that the money came from a "criminal source" https://www.courthousenews.com/backpage-executives-acquitted...

nadermxon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

Megaupload is a weird one. He hosted in it the USA, giving USA jurisidction. Also it's still going through the courts in New Zeland and USA and hasn't been proven hes guilty. And if I recall he did alledge he followed the DMCA, which if he ever is extradited might save him if it is in fact true.

nadermxon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

If you follow the DMCA I don't see why not.

nadermxon Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine

The UK has been doing this sort of stuff for at least a decade. For example they have the PIPCU which under the guise of copyright threatens 10 years in prison for sites not even in their jurisdiction.

https://torrentfreak.com/uk-police-launch-campaign-to-shut-d...

And with that, they have at the least gotten registrars not located in their jurisdicrion to transfer domains

https://easydns.com/blog/2013/10/08/whatever-happened-to-due...

nadermxon Haiku Validator

I just read your tutorial on haiku bulding and wrote one I think applies its framework:

Hacker news haikus

Despite reading this substack

Refregerator

nadermxon The stripper who ushered in the subscription-based internet

Is porn still where technological breakthroughs happen?

nadermxon Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW

I feel I must push back on this dang. I was being kind and not snarky, but critisim was earned as I listened to the tracks that where suggested. Had I said these are wonderful no flag. OP stated something that would lead someone to believe they where as good as grandfather comment description. It was in fact not audioly pleasent despite the great visuals.

nadermxon Bell Labs Scientists Accidentally Proved the Big Bang Theory

But then who brought god into existance?

nadermxon Why do we remember some life moments but not others?

For those who don't get the reference. It's googles breakthrough paper on LLM's.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

nadermxon Bell Labs Scientists Accidentally Proved the Big Bang Theory

I feel the big bang is a bit like calculus. If you have nothing and time. You take the limit you get from 0 to 1.

nadermxon Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW

[flagged]

nadermxon Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker

This entire thing reminds me of reading Ghost in the wires but like teen version. I don't think this kid truly understood the gravity of his situation, but ten years, damn. Did wreck some lives. Even Mitnick got only 5 and he was 30 when he did those shennanings.

nadermxon U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

If anyone want's to save stuff off tiktok just incase this doesn't go through, just remove the "OK" from the URL, ending up at https://tikt.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283876

nadermxon TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

I mean if you must, you can always save things off tiktok by removing the "ok" from the URL, ending up at https://tikt.com, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283876

nadermxon TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

Does no one remember vine? They showed there was a niche for a certain type of content. I think it all generally boils down to a sort of comparison of cell phone vs desktop vs maybe even laptop. It's not that when one came out the other was used less. It's instead that each was used now for different purposes, so usage in total basically 2-3x'd.

nadermxon Warner Bros. Joins Studios' AI Copyright Battle Against Midjourney

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

Would be funny if the studios lost, but most likely settlements.

nadermxon Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

First, I don't see how someone viewing a publicly available stream is an agreement to terms of service. Court cases to back this up ie Netscape.

Second, just because you agree to a contract doesn't mean that contract is consionable, not something that shocks the court.

And it would have to be up to a court to decided just that. Hence you know disney ended up backing out before the court decided. As arbitration can be considered unconscionable.

https://www.newsweek.com/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit-waive...

nadermxon Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/15/disney-...

Might have a word with you

nadermxon YouTube Is Cracking Down on Sharing Premium Family Accounts Outside 'Household'

Sounds good in theory, but in practice this has never taken off due to barrier of entry to even set up your own youtube for your own videos. Excluding reach as well

nadermxon Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

> the sites being blocked seems like they're straightforwardly committing copyright infringement. It's not like youtube-dl is being taken down or whatever.

> Where did "criminal penalties and prison" come from?

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/yout/; YMMV

nadermxon Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

>I don't get it, is your claim that the rightsholders can sue in German courts and get an injunction if they want sites blocked, or that site blocks shouldn't be needed at all because suing people (but not blocking the sites) is an adequate remedy for infringement?

Yet your own response seems to imply you do get it?

>What if the domain registrar or hosting provider is in another country? If some Chinese company is infringing on some German company's IP, is your response to tell them to sue them in China, rather than have the goods be blocked at the border?

Correct. As the infrigment is happening in China, not in Germany. Just because you don't like the way a law works, doesn't mean you can suddenly claim your rights are being violated some where else.

>Unless there's some context that's missing from the article, the sites being blocked seems like they're straightforwardly committing copyright infringement. It's not like youtube-dl is being taken down or whatever. "movie streaming sites are fine because there's a tiny chance that it's used by someone who already owns the movie" seems like a flimsy excuse to allow such sites to continue operating.

Yes because a tiny chance of innocence should be completely ignored according to your logic, and given that copyright infringement carries criminal penalties and prison. I hope it's not you who ends up in that situation.

nadermxon Germany's Copyright Clearing House now requires courts for website blocks

Actually the berne convention gives you right to sue in the jurisdiction where your rights are being violated.

Given there is some sort of fair use in most jurisidictions, and its compeltly with in even europeans rights to save entire movies for personal use, the parent comment to you is right. Tools exist for them to enforce them by going after the domain registrar or hosting provider.

All site blocking does is trample on rights over "alleged" infrignment.

nadermxon Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

In a similar vain, I made https://Instag.com, which let's you remove the "RAM" from Instagram media URL's to download them.

nadermxon California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters

We're littreally reading stories upvoted in importance by a bunch of randos. What else do you expect?

nadermxon Ch.at – A lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

I mean, ch.at is a incredible domain hack. But not sure it's worth millions. If it was ch.com could get mid six figures and up. But either way absolutely amazing domain.

nadermxon ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

I don’t think comparing a LLM to a calculator is necessarily apt. If anything i'd say you can use these LLM's as a reflection of you. If you think Alabama has an R. Then it's not maths fault it tries to find an answer that matches your persistence, especially since I'm sure somewhere in its training set alabamer exists.

nadermxon Ofcom will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you

This would only apply to businesses in the UK though? Not sure how Ofcom could pursuade a foreign based processor to shut down a legitimate businesses processing within their own jurisdiction, not the UK

nadermxon Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

I think with anything, it's a love hate. I open sourced https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover, and it's been cool in terms of vanity, but depending on my mood it either feels cool or like a chore to do work on it.