• gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    2605·
    9 个月前

    lol, copying isn’t theft. You already had to download a copy just to view it. That’s how websites work.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1099·
      9 个月前

      Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
      If you copy something you are not entitled to because of copyright, it’s copyright infringement.
      With theft the originally owner loses what is stolen, with copyright infringement the owner only loses the license fee for 1 copy.

      Not the same thing, and calling it theft is purely a propaganda term invented by the media industry.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        58·
        9 个月前

        It should also be noted that copyright laws usually have all sorts of exceptions for fair use such as satire, education, etc. Typically, keeping and even using a copy without permission is legally allowed under certain circumstances.

        • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          9 个月前

          Just a word of caution. Even if you have a valid fair use claim they have to be adjudicated and the legal costs can get pricey. Worse if you’re found liable.

          Check out Lawful Masses on YouTube for plenty of examples of copyright trolls using this as a bludgeon.

          • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            9 个月前

            It’s just a fear tactic. If enough people self represented themselves individually the companies would die. You can’t draw blood from a stone… which the average consumer is basically close to. The recovery rate vs the lawsuit fees would destroy the entire legal system if people stood their ground.

            • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              9 个月前

              Canada decided to have none of that. Downloading without keeping a copy (streaming) was basically thrown out as copyright infringement, the whole lost income idea was generally laughed at, and the final result was a maximum judgement of $500 for all non-commercial copyright infringement prior to the suit. Which basically would pay for about one hour of the plaintiff lawyer’s fees. We don’t get a lot of copyright suits like that in Canada any more.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        4·
        9 个月前

        With theft the originally owner loses what is stolen, with copyright infringement the owner only loses the license fee for 1 copy.

        There used to be an anti-piracy lobby group in Australia literally called “Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft”. I always had an issue with their name since they were really against copyright infringement, not “copyright theft” which is just a nonsense term like you said. It’s been ruled several times by courts both in Australia and in the USA that it can’t be called “theft” (e.g. https://www.techdirt.com/2013/12/02/surprise-mpaa-told-it-cant-use-terms-piracy-theft-stealing-during-hotfile-trial/).

      • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        0·
        9 个月前

        I like to think of it as something similar to watching a football match from the other side of the fence. People who paid the ticket, are loyal fans. People who didn’t pay, but still want to see the match, probably aren’t even part of the target audience. Some of them might be, but that’s a small number.

        So, when the football company says that they’ve lost the sales of x number of tickets, they are actually saying that if those people had enough money and if they cared enough, they might have paid this amount of money.

    • perviouslyiner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      9 个月前

      “Tools” -> “Page info” -> “Media” menu on Firefox - you can even see and save the images that the browser already downloaded.

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    831·
    9 个月前

    you focus on that popup and ignore all the crank shit that is on this page

    yes a piece of granite (?) with $60 pricetag put on my amplifier COMPLETELY changes how my vinyls sound like

    statements dreamed of by the utterly deranged

  • negativeyoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    632·
    9 个月前

    There is a 100% chance this warning correlates with the actual content on this site being hot garbage

    • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      281·
      9 个月前

      Considering they think putting rocks on top of your playing equipment changes the sound, their work has negative value.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
        8·
        9 个月前

        Technically, a weight on top of AV equipment’s cases will change the resonant properties of the chassis but that does not produce audible effects unless it’s on the speaker cone. The author considers this and dismisses the possibility because “rocks not heavy enough”.

        Also, a sufficiently large rock will affect the performance of any Hi-Fi equipment.

        • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
          4·
          9 个月前

          Well, my cheap Bluetooth speaker vibrates terribly and weighing it down helps. This will not help devices which already have vibration-preventing features, such as rubber feet or acoustics-aware housing design. And only some rocks will wobble depending on the base shape and point of mass.

          • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            9 个月前

            I planned on getting my dad a sound bar for his TV on his birthday because the TV he uses, the plastic grill over the speaker vibrates something fierce and it sounds like absolute garbage any time something with any amount of bass plays. But maybe I can just glue some rocks to it 🤔

      • wabafee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        Sometimes I think the whole industry of audiophile is just a bunch of baloney. Reminds of chifi IEM the KZ ZEX pro or something where people were praising for the improve sound and more drivers. Turns out only 1 driver is used and the rest are just there to justify increase in the price. It being no different than their cheaper version.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      9 个月前

      He could afford hundreds of dollars’ worth of placebo just for this single article. Either there’s an undisclosed sponsorship deal, or he has enough money to fuel all his means of self-delusion hobbies.

  • Betch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    9 个月前

    Don’t get scammed with audiophile rocks. I’ve done my research and found out that audiophile rock salt does the exact same thing and it is MUCH cheaper! Feel free to copy this and spread the word!

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    31·
    9 个月前

    I was going to copy content from the page using Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy in Firefox, but then I realized the content isn’t worth copying.

    So yes, there are add-ons to easily extract text and bypass this. The text is sent to your computer. It’s your computer. You can copy the content.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      9 个月前

      Don’t even need an addon, just hit F12 to open dev tools and use the network tab to get images/videos, and inspector tab for text.

    • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 个月前

      It’s done by overriding the document.onrightclick and the selection start something function in the browser. Reset it and you’re done.

      I know this because of a manufacturers website that does this. So incredibly annoying when the only reason anybody would want to copy from their webbo is for reference of their own products. In my case the product numbers to search for where to buy it.

    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      9 个月前

      I bet in ublock origin you can just click the “block JavaScript” button and refresh the page. That works for a lot of things like this.

  • MrMcGasion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    9 个月前

    Meanwhile, their robots.txt doesn’t disallow GPTBot or Google Bard. So apparently they’re okay with content being stolen by for-profit companies.

    • strawberry@kbin.run
      18·
      9 个月前

      you think either of those companies pays attention to robots.txt? its not legally binding or anythjng

      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 个月前

        At the executive level, no I don’t think they care or pay attention, but considering both have said “here’s how to block our crawler,” I do hope that that some mistreated developer did actually program a check in to the crawler. I still think it’s worth doing, even though I don’t fully trust them.

    • VubDapple@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      9 个月前

      I feel sorry for the guy now. He’s in over his head and trying to defend himself ineffectively. And now a bunch of lemmings are mocking him too, which I get, but it’s still fucked up. Humans suck.

      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 个月前

        Yeah, based on his robots.txt it seems to be a Wordpress site, so he’s probably just installed an ineffective plugin to prevent copying. At least he can take solace in the fact that most of us probably aren’t any more relevant than he is.

      • Emerald@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        9 个月前

        i don’t feel bad dunking on this guys site. doing this is a dick move for accessibility reasons

  • Kindness@lemmy.mlEnglish
    281·
    9 个月前

    Probably the source of their problem:

    Copyright Infringement – Outing – dasklang.com, isecope.com, headgamesonline.com and technocratsblog.com

    As I See It, News, comments & Information

    Apr 16, 2019

    Recently I have discovered my review work (1) and show reports taken and reproduced without my permission by four websites, one of whom took the material down when asked – they should not have reproduced it in the first place. When approached they said ‘sure that is how the net works, I am helping you by doing this’. No you are not, you are only helping yourself dasklang.com (2), creating traffic to your site off the back of my work not your own. How would you like it if I reproduced the design of your products ? Then told you my doing so was helping you. You wouldn’t.

    I was going to let this go, but why should I? I have struggled personally to try and put some content on my site, battled reviwers burn out and other issues. Content that in many cases I have paid for out of my pocket to write about, not items loaned by manufacturers or distributors, but products I had bought, sometimes simply to write about them. However even if I had not parted with my money, my time and effort is worth something surely? Worthy of respect that I would at the very least be offered a chance to give my permission as to how my work is used, and where. None of these websites asked, they took what wasn’t theirs to use, to put content on their sites.

    The websites that still have my material up without permission are isecope.com, headgames online and technocratsblog.com, all three I suspect are linked.

    As they are watching this site maybe after being named and shamed they will remove the material. I doubt it, I guess I will have to go after them with DMCA’s and report to their web-hosts.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    9 个月前

    Seems like the kind of thing a person does when they understand technology well enough to use it badly but don’t recognize that it’s ineffective against anyone willing to type “enable right click” into their search engine of choice.

    How much do you want to bet that they didn’t write the JavaScript for that message and it’s just been copied and edited? Probably even right-clicked to do it, the scalawag.

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      9 个月前

      How much do you want to bet that they didn’t write the JavaScript for that message

      They definitely didn’t-- the page source has it copied from another blog:

      /******************************************************************************
      *** COPY PROTECTED BY http://chetangole.com/blog/wp-copyprotect/ version 3.1.0 ****
      ******************************************************************************/
      var message=“Copying my work, without written permission is theft. You are not helping me, only yourself, and you are a thief. Reproduce my work and I will come after you legally.”;
      function clickIE4(){
      if (event.button==2){
      alert(message);
      return false;