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Just popping in to not talk about Vegas, but to remark that the meme format is adorable!

I thought the dropping of grammatical gender was a consequence of the creolisation of Anglo-Saxon with French to form English, not of Danish with Anglo-Saxon???

Honestly, a lot of modern copyright law is very shady. You can get in major trouble for ripping a CD or DVD? That sounds insane. And what about not being allowed to repair your own tractor? Do you remember the baby dancing to some music, that was then DMCA-ed away?

My favorite is still the absolutely bonkers almost 100 years on copyrights. That has absolutely nothing to do with “the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” everything with lining the pockets of copyright holders.

I speak German legalese (don’t ask) so I went to the actual source and read up on the decision.

The way I read it, the higher court simply stated that the Appeals court didn’t consider the impact of source code to byte code transformation in their ruling, meaning they had not provided references justifying the fact they had ignored the transformation. Their contention is that there might be protected software in the byte code, and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.

Sounds more like, “Appeals court has to do their homework” than “ad blockers illegal.”

The ruling is a little painful to read, because as usual the courts are not particularly good at technical issues or controversies, so don’t quote me on the exact details. In particular, they use the word Vervielfältigung a lot, which means (mass) copy, which is definitely not happening here. The way it reads, Springer simply made the case that a particular section of the ruling didn’t have any reasoning or citations attached and demanded them, which I guess is fair. More billable hours for the lawyers!

[Edit: added "The way I read it, coz I am not 100% sure, as explained later.]

I read that slightly differently: the jobs “disrupted” away are customer support, generally outsourced due to their perceived low value = phone support. Basically, phone customer support is being terminated in favor of chat bots.

The Americans that care have LONG been alarmed.

What happened next will SHOCK you!!

Aside from sight-challenged people, there are also the ones that don’t speak the language of the meme/photo. You can take the text and paste it into an automated translator, with a meme it’s harder to do. That’s particularly important with memes that have slang/jargon/regional content.

From? Last I checked it was in private development.