Interesting Links for 17-02-2012
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andrewducker- A guide to the competing claims over the Falklands?
- European Court of Justice rules that social networks cannot be forced to filter content
- MI6 kidnapped Libyan dissidents and delivered them (and their families) to Gadaffi. With ministerial backing.
- The difference in cuts between the parties is absolutely tiny.
- David Cameron's speech praising Europe
- The Indian government are using telephones to track all people at all times.
- Teller's inspiring letter to an up and coming magician. Some great advice in there for anyone.
- The Brains of Storytellers And Their Listeners Actually Sync Up
- David Cameron teases Scotland. "Maybe you can have some more powers. If you behave."
- Renewable energy will take decades to pay off the carbon cost of its installation
- There's now a blood test for depression
- Some details on the NHS shake-up
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Date: 2012-02-17 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 12:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 12:52 pm (UTC)I think I'd also add that if I were a South American Indian living in Argentina I might snigger ironically at their claim to the Falklands based on British colonialism.
*I say "settlers" because the writer seemed to suggest that they were whalers who only occupied their whaling station part time.
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Date: 2012-02-17 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 02:05 pm (UTC)I think I’d feel less like that if we (or anyone else) had turfed out some people who were actually living there at the time but the place seemed to be only occasionally occupied by whalers and fishermen from many and various places.
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Date: 2012-02-17 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-17 02:34 pm (UTC)Also, I notice that I'm not so keen on handing back Australia to the Aboriginal community.
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Date: 2012-02-17 07:40 pm (UTC)Some people have the opposite view, especially with reference to Scottish independence.
I rather like how every time Britain gets all colonial and aggressive about the Falklands, the USA puts its head in its hands and sighs melodramatically, moving to sit at a different table to us.
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Date: 2012-02-17 07:36 pm (UTC)Youtube being used as a social network, being my point.
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Date: 2012-02-17 08:14 pm (UTC)The point is that Google don't have to preemptively look at the videos and work out what's legal and what's not - just respond to requests from rightsholders.
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Date: 2012-02-17 08:18 pm (UTC)Of course, social networks choosing to filter content because media companies that they rely on for advertising or content want it as a condition of supporting their service (or so that they don't head to court over anime music videos) may well be a different matter
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Date: 2012-02-17 08:24 pm (UTC)Under the DMCA I can put something up and it will just sit there - someone can then request it be taken down, and then Google will have to let me know and then comply within a fairly short time period (I think it's a few days, but many companies act a lot faster than this). I can then submit a "No, really, I own this." and then they can put it back up - and then it goes to court.
The penalty to claiming to own something you don't is pretty darn high, I believe.
And yes, companies have issues takedown notices for stuff they have no claim over, because they just don't care what gets hit by the flak.
There's a reasonably good FAQ with answers to things over here:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq#QID130
and
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq#QID922