romanian-aesthetic:

the-thing-about-life-is:

startrekgifs:

oodlenoodleroodle:

mostlysignssomeportents:

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement
because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth
of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for
300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos – for audio, text, stills, code, everything.

Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research
on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it
was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok,
Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have
fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.

Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.

Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html

The vote is scheduled 10-13. September.

Make a move now.

This is so important.

Europe, please speak up and speak out.

@romaniansuggestion @officialromaniantranslatiuni @romanian-aesthetic

The algorithm needed to make is absolutely ridiculously expensive, and of a scale never seen before (yes, bigger than the Youtube one).

This is all in all an absurd initiative.

Let’s turn at least Romania to the “Against” side!