3mo ago

Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video

tech.yahoo.com

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Companies these days are just nothing but abuse. What the hell has happened to companies.
- Cory Doctorow has a word for the phenomenon: enshittification.
  
  Calculated misery by Tim Wu explains a lot too
- These days?
  You mean like this century?
  Specifically Google and Adobe have always been abusing their position. I'm not sure what exactly has ever changed, apart from them getting bigger and more brazen, but they have always been bad ethically.
Its Lunduke, a self-proclaimed a-political tech journalist. You can pretty much disregard anything that spews from his mouth.
Google has removed the video through an automated process without talking to the owner of the channel or verifying who owns the video in the first place.
Honestly sounds like Hanlon's Razor on Google's part. No collusion necessary, just can't be bothered to maintain/staff an actual effective system.
- This is exactly how YouTube's DMCA takedown system works, and how media companies have been abusing it since it's inception. Someone claims copyright on your video, and Google immediately takes it down. You then can contest the claim and Youtube will put it back up. But the claimant can contest your contest, and Google will then tell you that you can't have it up and have to settle in court with the claimant. Oh, and you get a strike to boot.
  The whole process is automated, because there's so much content now it's impractical for every single takedown request to be addressed by a human. And because there is no punishment for bad-faith takedown requests, there is no incentive for the claimants to ensure their IP is really being infringed.
  
  And that's how you get your own recording of a classical piece from centuries ago get taken down because it sounds like another copyrighted video. No fucking shit, we're playing from the same sheet music.
naaaaaah... upstanding corporate global citizens such as google and adobe? no, never. no chance in hell. they'd never collude to do such an evil thing..
Where can we watch the video?
It recently came to my attention that sundar the creep shut down future proof video channel due to advertisers bitching about Levi doing too good of a job at calling out these parasites.
Google products are hostile the peasants, at the rate we are going they won't be usable unless you are lacking self respect

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