Step 1: Print a photo of your dad.
Step 2: Hold it up to the camera.
Step 3: Play Resident Evil 7.
Step 1: Print a photo of your dad.
Step 2: Hold it up to the camera.
Step 3: Play Resident Evil 7.
I’ve got a smart TV on which the Wifi broke very shortly after I got it. I just use a Chromecast and it works nicely.
Yeah, if the information in phone books isn’t in scope of copyright for failing to meet a minimum standard of “creativity” surely a random number shouldn’t be either.
But yeah. It sounds like the legal tactic Nintendo used to scare Valve (well, Valve was complicit, but anyway) was about the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking parts of the DMCA.
Maybe the thinking is that whatever that server was raided for may have been federated to other servers, making them also targets for FBI raids.
Edit: Looks like the admin was raided for participating in a protest and the Mastodon instance wasn’t the target at all, in which case why did they take that data at all?
That’s interesting. I’d be a little concerned that widespread use of that might create more legal issues for Archive.org that wouldn’t be problems if it never caught on much. On that basis, I’d probably not use it.
But I’d imagine ideological opposition to such a thing wouldn’t be enough to keep it from catching on either.