#false dmca

[edgepunk]

in other news I am glad that coryxkenshin is speaking up against youtube’s bullshit favoritism and blatant racism that’s been going on for a good couple of years

#t #also another youtuber is suing them for false dmca strikes #good!!! #also also if you want to view an age restricted video you need to give them your ID number which :))) #I think is illegal in certain countries #I am NOT giving youtube (google) my ID number are you insane

[echoekhi]

I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

What Are “What If” Videos?

These videos follow a common recipe: A narrator, given a fandom (usually anime ones like My Hero Academia and Naruto), explores an alternative timeline where something is different. Maybe the main character has extra powers, maybe a key plot point goes differently. They then go on and make up a whole new story, detailing the conflicts and romance between characters, much like an ordinary fanfic.

Except, they are fanfics. Actual fanfics, pulled off AO3, FFN and Wattpad, given a different title, with random thumbnail and background images added to them, narrated by computer text-to-speech synthesizers.

They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like “What if Deku had the Power of Ten Rings”, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views.

In fact, the process is so straightforward and requires so little effort, it’s pretty clear some of these channels have automated pipelines to pump these out en-masse. They don’t bother with asking the fic authors for permission. Sometimes they don’t even bother with putting the fic’s link in the description or crediting the author. These content-farms then monetise these videos, so they get a cut from YouTube’s ads.

In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.

Project Copy-Knight

Since the adversaries almost certainly have automated systems set up for this, the only realistic countermeasure is with another automated system. Identifying fanfics manually by listening to the videos and searching them up with tags is just too slow and impractical.

And so, I came up with a simple automated pipeline to identify the original authors of “What If” videos.

It would go download these videos, run speech recognition on it, search the text through a database full of AO3 fics, and identify which work it came from. After manual confirmation, the original authors will be notified that their works have been subject to copyright theft, and instructions provided on how to DMCA-strike the channel out of existence.

I built a prototype over the weekend, and it works surprisingly well:

On a randomly-selected YouTube channel (in this case Infinite Paradox Fanfic), the toolchain was able to identify the origin of half of the content. The raw output, after manual verification, turned out to be extremely accurate. The time taken to identify the source of a video was about 5 minutes, most of those were spent running Whisper, and the actual full-text-search query and Levenshtein analysis was less than 5 seconds.

The other videos probably came from fanfiction websites other than AO3, like fanfiction.net or Wattpad. As I do not have access to archives of those websites, I cannot identify the other ones, but they are almost certainly not original.

Armed with this fantastic proof-of-concept, I’m officially declaring war against “What If” videos. The mission statement of Project Copy-Knight will be the elimination of “What If” videos based on the theft of AO3 content on YouTube.

I Need Your Help

I am acutely aware that I cannot accomplish this on my own. There are many moving parts in this system that simply cannot be completely automated – like the selection of YouTube channels to feed into the toolchain, the manual verification step to prevent false-positives being sent to authors, the reaching-out to authors who have comments disabled, etc, etc.

So, if you are interested in helping to defend fanworks, or just want to have a chat or ask about the technical details of the toolchain, please consider joining my Discord server. I could really use your help.

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See full blog article and acknowledgements here: https://echoekhi.com/2023/11/25/project-copy-knight/

#ao3 #fanfic #copyknight #theft #copyright

[utilitycaster]

Introducing: A new Critical Role Wiki

As you may be aware, I’ve been involved with the Critical Role wiki on Fandom since last summer. This therefore may seem surprising, but: several dedicated former editors of the Fandom wiki, myself included, have made a new, ad-free wiki at https://criticalrole.miraheze.org. It contains much of the same material of the Fandom wiki (as is legal per the CC-BY-SA license, with full attribution), with a number of improvements made over the past month.

You may consider this our vote of no confidence in Fandom as a platform, and in the administration of the Fandom-hosted wiki.

We are doing this because the administrators of the Fandom wiki have repeatedly ignored the wishes of the community, shutting even experienced editors out from nearly all decisions, resisting even minor changes, and ignoring simple requests and basic admin tasks for months on end. They are also knowingly using fan art without artist permission* despite the strong and repeated urging of at least six experienced editors to remove it.

A recent formalization of the path to administrator roles explicitly limits new admins to people the current administration - all of whom were appointed by the wiki founder, with no input from the community - chooses. The leadership position on the wiki is now held by the person who started edit wars, protected pages, and blocked users to support presumptive and ultimately false narratives in favor of a particular ship, and who has shut down or deleted any criticism of these actions as being “bad faith.” The wiki administration has openly condoned plagiarism as a valid means of updating pages, and have consistently refused to take feedback seriously.

We are also dissatisfied with Fandom as a hosting site. In January, Fandom attempted to require an extensive and poorly handled rebranding of the wiki to promote TLOVM on behalf of Amazon (which was, to the credit of both the administrators and the editorship, unanimously resisted). I and others have additionally made repeated complaints about the administration to Fandom, none of which we believe have been taken seriously.

Despite the efforts of a passionate community, I believe the current administration will forever oppose most efforts to change or improve the wiki, and that Fandom is only interested in getting eyes on ads. We intend to provide a better option on an ad-free, open-source platform. If you share any of these frustrations or concerns, I invite you to join us.

Finally, I would be remiss if I did not thank multiple collaborators, including Ellis (not on Tumblr) for their tireless efforts. This would not have been possible without them.

Social media handles for the wiki will be forthcoming over the next few weeks. In the meantime feel free to ask me any questions you might have.

*If you are a fan artist concerned about stolen art: it’s primarily from early in Campaign 1, and can as of this time be found under the category “Images lacking permission”. If you wish to ask that your art be removed from the wiki, I recommend responding to the tweet or similar in which you were asked permission. You can also go to the Fandom wiki discord, to to https://criticalrole.fandom.com/wiki/User:CRAdmin (requires login), or submit a DMCA notice to Fandom (does not require login).

#critical role

[animepopheart]

The messenger:

>Receives message accusing me of posting art without permission >Provides no evidence but "heard" that I did >Threatens to report DMCA violation if I don't rescind in 72 hours

Me:

>Only reprints by permission >Responds absolutely denying charge >Requests evidence for false charge

Now:

>More than 72 hours later, still haven't receive a response in return

#honestly I'm not that frustrated though I was when the message comes in #whenever someone claims I posted w/o permission I FREAK OUT—did i rly do this? I drop everything to check. I want to do things right #so this did annoy me at the time—where's your permission?! #and threats are even worse—just have a conversation you know? #not that OP could actually report me—DMCA violations must be reported by the artist #sheesh #thankfully for the OP I will keep that person anonymous #i hope a lesson was learned

[titleknown]

In other news of “Copyright law and automated enforcement of copyright law is out of fucking control...”

#lofi girl #lofi beats #copyright #content id #copyright strike #important #sad

[thankskenpenders]

Updates on the Boingkid shit (go read the previous post if you have no idea what I’m talking about) because yes he is still at it:

1. People (myself included) have wondered why the creator of Boingkid would only be taking issue with Belle’s design now, in the form of Twitter DMCAs, when she’s been in the comics for almost two years at this point. Why not go to IDW directly, and why not do so sooner? Well, here are some responses:

“We did from time to time because we were busy with other projects. We sent an email and got a response from IDW's secretary and she insist to know the details of what we want to share with the CEO. Despite the gut feeling we shared the potential of illegal action & get blocked.”

“We did not write even a single line about this publicly, until one of the IDW artists cry out that Twitter has accepted the claim. Then after that upon fans reach out we shared what happened. We tolerated this for 2 years as Belle was just a spinoff but they continue to bring her“

So, yeah. He’s supposedly believed this the whole time, but IDW ignored him because of course they did. (Lord knows how, exactly, he tried to contact them in the first place, or if he even sent his pitch to the right email.) It was Jen Hernandez publicly calling him out over the DMCA on Twitter that was the last straw, and now he’s making this extremely public in retaliation

2. He now seems to be demanding that IDW simply alter Belle’s face “to avoid any resemblance to other copyrighted work in US.” This would be reasonable if he had a case, but, again, he did not invent the concept of a character having a clown nose and freckles

3. I previously said the guy was from Italy (both his ArtStation account and the unsuccessful Kickstarter for the Boingkid game have their locations set as Rome, and the demo was shown at an expo in Rome), but people dug up the copyright registration for Boingkid and found out that he’s originally from Iran. Either way, t’s likely that a language barrier is part of the confusion here, as his English isn’t the best (although it’s certainly readable)

4. Much of his case, as he presents it on Twitter, is predicated on Twitter support believing him when he filed his DMCA claims. This obviously doesn’t hold any water as social media companies accept false DMCA claims all the goddamn time due to the inherently flawed nature of the law, but his fundamental misunderstanding of how this system works may be partially due to that language barrier

5. People keep comparing this guy to Penders. I just want everyone to understand that, even with his outlandish claims about Julie-Su and Shade being legally the same character and things like that, even Penders has waaaaaaay more to back up his  argument there than Boingkid guy has against Belle. Penders worked on Sonic for 13 years and the BioWare team literally said they were inspired by the comics. Boingkid guy is just some fucking guy no one’s heard of who allegedly got ghosted on a pitch to IDW. There’s no reason to believe that Evan even knew who he was before Friday

6. There’s a lot of question about the guy’s motives. Whether he actually believes this, or if it’s just a publicity stunt. I don’t think there’s any reason it can’t be both. He absolutely seems to believe his claim, at least to some extent, but he also seems to be relishing the attention

I feel cynical for saying this, but like. The guy’s been trying to make Boingkid a thing for years. The Kickstarter in 2017 only got nine backers for a total of $667 against a $53,000 goal. The team moved to a Patreon page which is now all but dead. If we believe his claim that he pitched the comics to IDW, that went nowhere. The demo for the game got a few positive previews, but as a dev myself believe me when I say that in this day and age a few blog posts are not enough to move the needle on their own. Again, I sympathize with the guy on that level, because he’s a good artist and GOD is it hard to make it out there even when you’re giving it your all. But this controversy is by far the most attention Boingkid as a brand has ever gotten. Thousands upon thousands of quote tweets for an account that had 150 followers at the start of this, and that follower count has only been going up. As they say, any press is good press. It’s hard not to look at that and assume the worst. If he had actually designed a character that was much more similar to Belle, or if I believed even for a second that Evan was the type of person who would plagiarize someone else’s work like that, then this would be different. But when the argument is so flimsy...?

I don’t believe he’s purely a troll, as some artists really are just like this. (Lord knows I’ve seen some people get in extremely heated feuds over superficial similarities between furry OCs and the like.) But at the same time, I do believe that at this point he’s acting in an intentionally incendiary way to get attention. Whether it’s a desperate attempt to drive attention to the Boingkid IP after years of floundering, or it’s purely to try and get IDW to respond to a genuine plagiarism claim and right a perceived wrong and nothing else, I can’t say. It’s quite likely a mixture of both, though

But either way, this whole situation continues to suck. I hope this is resolved soon. Belle’s a great character, and Evan, Jen, and anyone else who just wants to draw Belle in peace doesn’t need this hanging over their head

#tkp post

[neopet-euthanization]

fuck redbubble. if you buy from or sell on redbubble i have to encourage everyone to go elsewhere. they randomly suspend artist accounts with no explanation, and in their appeals email, say they may not even look at your appeal and if you don’t hear back in 2 weeks your account is gone forever.

this happened to me and i did some research only to find this is an EXTREMELY common story. seriously google it and there’s so many reddit posts about it. including people who believe they may have been banned for a false copyright claim - this is illegal btw. a DMCA or copyright claim is a LEGAL claim and by law (at least in the US) you have the legal right to hear about it and have the opportunity to dispute the claim.

i can’t say strongly enough, check out sites like zazzle and society6, where they don’t randomly ban 5 year old accounts that have income with zero explanation.

#redbubble #fuck you redbubble #it’s been over the 2 weeks btw my account is fucking gone #I’ve tried everything and I just get canned responses #redbubble is trash. go elsewhere #artists on tumblr #artists

[multi-muse-transect]

I can’t wait for the day HBomberguy does a video on anti-woke grifters. But then again, that might destroy the echo chamber and these asshats might do something drastic like a false copyright/DMCA strike. Heard that’s popular with people who can’t take criticism these days. After all, these asshats know how to dig themselves into a hole further, might as well dig into the center of the earth if they press the “cancelled for the right reasons” button.

#mun rants #mun talks #ooc

[pattywagon2go]

Valve, Team Fortress 2, and My Frustrations

DISCLAIMER: Do not, and I repeat, do not, harass anyone at Valve. This helps nothing. This post is purely my own opinion and I do not represent the TF2 Community in any way. Feel free to disagree with anything I say here.

I normally don’t comment on these types of things, but with how much of a nerve this struck with me, I figured I couldn’t remain silent on it anymore. In light of the recent takedown of Team Fortress: Source 2 and (to a lesser extent) Portal 64 shuttering its doors, I want to talk about Valve and its mistreatment of Team Fortress 2, from letting the game rot with cheating bots and cheaters roaming servers to making false promises to the community so desperate for any kind of fix from the only people who can fix TF2.

Before I get into that, I want to address the takedown stuff regarding Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64, as there's been a lot of misinformation regarding both of these fan projects.

So to get everyone up to speed, one day ago (at the time the script of this post is being written), Team Fortress: Source 2, a port of TF2 to Source 2 using S&Box (the spiritual successor to Garry’s Mod), and Portal 64, a demake of Portal 1 to run on the Nintendo 64, both had their plug pulled after Valve filed a DMCA Copyright Takedown to TF: Source 2's Github repository, and after the dev for Portal 64 got a message from Valve warning them not to continue. The reasoning for TF:Source 2's takedown appears to be because the game used assets ripped from TF2, which is very much not allowed by Valve, while Portal 64 shut its doors not because Valve filed a DMCA takedown, but because the dev got a message from Valve saying that they shouldn't continue since the project relies on Nintendo code libraries.

If you want more information, there's a great video explaining it here, but either way you chop it, Valve shouldn't be called out as having changed their stance on mods, because they haven't. A mod, by its definition, is a modification to an existing game. The first Team Fortress was a mod of Quake I, not a full remake of it in a different engine. Something like Portal: Revolution, a mod for Portal 2 which adds in a brand new campaign, and TF:Source 2 are NOT comparable at all simply because one is adding to a preexisting game, while the other is basically a carbon copy of said game but in a different engine. And low and behold, Valve was fine with Portal: Revolution, while Valve wasn't fine with TF:Source 2. You cannot say that Valve's stance on modding has changed when looking at TF:Source 2 simply because TF:Source 2 isn't a mod to begin with. And in the case of Portal 64, first of all the rhetoric that Valve filed a DMCA takedown isn't true at all. If so, you would have seen the list of DMCA takedowns on Github increase by two. Valve just messaged the dev creating Portal 64 with a warning that they shouldn't continue due to it using proprietary Nintendo libraries. And if you don't know already, Nintendo is infamous for how hard they are on anyone who uses their properties without their permission. If anything, Valve should be getting praise for this for stepping in and preventing a powder keg from exploding in front of this dev's face. And even if Valve did say nothing about it, Nintendo would have said something about it eventually, and we all know how that could have turned out. Frankly, the simple warning from Valve is infinitely preferable from the ways Nintendo could have easily ruined the person who was making Portal 64's life forever.

So now that that's out of the way, time for the actual meat of the post. Time to discuss Valve's treatment of Team Fortress 2 and the community at large.

First off, how did we get here to begin with?

To make a long story short, TF2 had an issue of cheaters roaming servers as far back as 2019, but it kicked into high gear in 2020, when cheating bots were swarming Casual servers left and right, making the game unplayable for many. And this continues to this very day in 2024, 4 entire years after this whole mess began.

This isn’t even hard to prove, all you have to do is queue for Casual and you’ll find a bot immediately (all names censored to not give the people who run these things attention).

For 4 years straight, TF2 has been ravaged by cheaters and bots hellbent on ruining the game. And what has Valve done about it? Mute and gag free-to-play players, make some changes to how votekicking works, etc. Except all of these were just stop-gap solutions, not actual solutions which could fix the issue long-term. For four years straight, Valve hasn’t even made an attempt at fixing the larger issue whatsoever, while the bots just became worse and worse as the years went by. Now, it’s almost guaranteed any lobby you join will have bots in it. There’s basically nowhere in Casual that isn’t safe anymore.

"But what about savetf2?"

Good point. Let's talk about that.

This is the one I’m most salty about, as this was the very FIRST instance Valve actually acknowledged the state the game was in, and they promised to do anything about it.

For anyone out of the loop, in 2022, a bunch of people within the TF2 Community banded together to get a hashtag on Twitter trending called #savetf2, as a way to get Valve’s attention to the state of the game, due to the bot crisis having gone unresolved for (then) two years. What shocked the community was Valve using the official Team Fortress 2 Twitter account to acknowledge the hashtag, saying “TF2 community, we hear you! We love this game and know you do, too. We see how large this issue has become and are working to improve things.” 

You can still find the tweet here:

At the time, this was huge. Valve, a company infamous for their lack of transparency, had finally responded to the community, promising to fix things. Flash forward two years later, did anything substantial come from this?

I wish.

Valve did their thing and went radio silent once more. No follow-up tweet, no blog post, absolutely nothing. And especially no bot fix update.

And now (at the time of me writing the script for this) #savetf2 is trending once more to bring back Valve’s attention to the issue.

Personally, I can't help but just not expect anything from Valve at this point, because why should I? Why should I expect Valve to do anything when the last time this happened Valve blatantly lied to everyone by saying they were going to do something to fix the issue, yet they didn’t (and so far) still haven’t?

The community, as a whole, have done everything we can to get Valve to do anything.

We bought the new cases and keys.

We bought Tour of Duty tickets for Mann vs. Machine.

We even broke the record for the most players online at a given time.

Valve, thanks to our support, is still actively making money off of this game. And lots of it, at that.

We gave you (and continue to give you) everything, Valve. You gave us (and continue to give us) nothing we want in return.

And this isn't even an isolated example of Valve not being open with the community. Remember the 2023 Summer Update? It was a fairly decent update, which added in a lot of cool community created content, but the leadup to the update was yet another example of Valve not being honest with the community.

Originally, Valve advertised the update as an “Update-sized update”, meaning something bigger than the usual holiday stuff like Smissmass and Scream Fortress. And when people saw that, everyone went crazy. It was a dream come true. Valve would return with the milk at last. Everything would be so great and awesome aaaaaaaaaannnd it was changed sometime later to say “Holiday-sized update”. And everyone was disappointed again.

(Evidence)

Now whether you think this was an accidental miscommunication or a malicious rugpull is up to you. Which one is actually correct we will never know because Valve hasn't (and still hasn't) told us yet! And knowing Valve, this is something I expect they will take to their graves instead of telling the community exactly what happened!

This lack of transparency is exactly the problem I have with Valve.

Valve isn’t being open and honest with the community at all, and this results in false expectations and promises being broken.

Alright, time to preemptively address some of the inevitable criticism I’m going to get with this post.

“Oh what about the new cosmetics, taunts, maps, etc., Valve still cares, you're being too harsh.”

With regards to cosmetics, taunts, maps, etc., first of all, those are all created by the community. Valve had nothing to do with those. Second of all, that’s doing the bare minimum. It doesn’t take a genius to go on the Workshop and approve a certain amount of cosmetics and maps to package into a seasonal update like Scream Fortress and Smissmass. Valve is only feeding us the bare scraps in terms of keeping players engaged. Yes, it’s keeping us alive, but only barely. That isn’t something someone who actually cares would do.

And here's the thing: Don't get the people who work at Valve and Valve as a corporation confused. Valve has some awesome people under its belt, yes, but the people do not represent the company. Valve, as a corporation, only cares about making money. They do not care about you in the slightest. All they see you as is a walking wallet. Valve is very much making a lot of money off of Team Fortress 2, from literally anything that is being sold off the Mann Co. Store. As far as Valve as a corporation is concerned, if the money continues to roll in, why bother doing anything more than the bare minimum?

“If Casual sucks so much just go play on community servers”

Community servers are a fucking mess to begin with. Ads, weird plugins, unwelcoming communities, along with it being more of a “Hang around” experience vs the pick up and play experience Casual offers makes them unappealing for most, if just not an option at all. Community servers only make sense if you are familiar with the community of said server. If you aren’t, then you’re more than likely going to be scared away because of how overwhelming it can be. Casual’s pick up and play nature is much more appealing, especially for new players. Think of it like a new kid who joins your class at school midway through a semester. Everyone knows each other already, so everyone else is fine with being together, but for the new kid, they may stick out like a sore thumb. It may become overwhelming for them. Casual doesn’t have this issue at all, since you are thrown around with different people each time. Community and Casual servers are two completely different camps, so saying Community servers should be the solution just won’t work on a fundamental level.

"The bot problem is complicated, it must be hard for Valve"

Oh most definitely, but even then, what exactly is stopping Valve from simply communicating this with us? Valve's lack of communication with the community is what's causing people to run wild with speculation as to whether a fix is happening or not, and this only results in false promises being made and expectations not being met. If Valve was open about how hard the bot problem is to fix, then I wouldn't be making this post. But that's not the case, and look where it got us. Rock fucking bottom.

“Valve isn’t structured like other companies, people don’t want to work on TF2”

The first part of this is definitely true, Valve is indeed different. Valve employees are free to work on what they want instead of being forced by upper management to work on stuff. But the thing is, if Valve, a company valued at $7.7 billion, can’t find people to help work on TF2, then what the hell is stopping them from asking others to give it a shot instead? There’s plenty of absolutely talented devs who have been working with TF2 for literal YEARS at this point who Valve could absolutely send out a job offer to. Why not them?

“Major updates are hard to do”

This one kinda ties into the one above, in that Valve could hire people to make content for TF2, but I wanted to address this one in a more personal way.

Here’s a controversial take: I don’t want a major content update.

What I want is Valve to finally be honest with us.

Valve’s inaction and radio silence has driven the community up the wall for 4 years straight in the hopes that something was coming to remedy the bot issue. Yet nothing has materialized so far. And the thing is, if Valve absolutely doesn’t want to work on TF2 anymore, why won’t Valve just tell us this? Why do they continue to keep the door open to a possible solution despite the current situation showing nothing is coming from Valve? Why do they continue to leave the community on a cliffhanger as to whether they will help us eventually or we’re going to be on our own for good? It’s this dishonesty from Valve that absolutely boils my blood and leaves me with zero faith in whether anything is coming for TF2 at all. At best, Valve has just said nothing. At worst, Valve made promises to the community about things getting better yet they would either do nothing or change the story last-minute with no explanation whatsoever.

If you made it all the way through this rambly post, you must really care about Team Fortress 2 as much as I do. I love this game and seeing its current state makes me sad. But what makes me angry is the lack of any actual work from Valve whatsoever. Valve had four entire years to fix things, yet didn’t. When Valve finally acknowledged TF2, they only gave Band-Aid fixes to the issue. And when the community asked for more, Valve gave us empty promises that they never acted on. 

I didn't make this post to dunk on Valve for the sake of it or to cause people to boycott Valve. I made this post to show that Valve has a history of dishonesty with TF2, and any and all things that Valve says or promises that are beyond the usual stuff we should expect from Valve at this rate should be met with intense amounts of scrutiny, because Valve is very likely going to break any kind of promise they make to us beyond the stuff that is to be expected from them.

Valve is not honest to the Team Fortress 2 Community. 

Valve is not transparent to the people who continue to hold up their aging team-based first person shooter game from 2007.

Valve does not care about people like you and me.

#savetf2 #valve #team fortress 2

[lovelykhaleesiii]

These people who are crying "plagiarism" right now remind me of that infamous A/B/O author who constantly sends (false!!!) DMCA takedown notices to platforms over fellow het A/B/O writers' work because she "originated the concept" and they are all "plaigiarising her" uhhh girl

the comedy in this fandom is peak right now, the hypocrisy is unreal from the amount of “writers” crying wolf.

concepts and plots are recycled, tropes are recycled CONSTANTLY. if you do not realise this now as a real writer you will be lost, self-absorbed and downright ignorant. we might as well cease to write fanfic, right? copyright of characters we love and desire? we’re taking these fictional characters and their storyline’s from authentic authors and using it for our own satisfaction, yes? OH! but you tweaked the story did you? changed the plot, added your own little OC there, I see, I see…

people have been using the term plagiarism very light and excessively in this fandom, and it is not okay. it is a very serious issue and something many writers battle in every fandom. I do not discredit that. unless a piece you have written, is taken and published without your knowledge or consent [but get closer & listen to this] WORD FOR WORD, I don’t want to hear it.

often fanfic writing is incredibly generic. someone claiming a type of AU or format, etc NSFW alphabets [cough cough] as their own is fucking absurd. cry in your naughty corner, reflect and grow some fucking brain cells.

I am so appalled at the behaviour of people in this fandom, right now. and if you think it’s even more okay to publicly out people because you deem it EVERYONE’S BUSINESS rather than resolve issues yourself in a private more mature manner, boy are you going to hate the real world…

seems like high school shenanigans to me. it’s pathetic how delusional people [newsflash, we’re talking about grown ass adults] are in this fandom.

there are people literally dying as we speak, and you’re sulking because a sentence looks oddly similar to yours wowzaaaaaa. touch some fucking grass.

as I’ve said, I think certain people should just STFU and carry on. and be warned, what goes around comes around. this place, I speak for my blog, will not tolerate any bullying or harassment, for myself and my mutuals.

fuck around and find out 🔥

#HOTD #fandom tings

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

There’s only four days left in the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.

#20yrsago EFF analysis of the Super-DMCA https://web.archive.org/web/20030425210736/https://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/states/200304_sdmca_eff_analysis.php

#20yrsago Terrorism databases and the fallacy of the false positive https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2003/0415.html#7

#20yrsago Kim Stanley Robinson on adventure travel https://web.archive.org/web/20030422230305/https://gorp.com/gorp/features/visionary/robinson.htm

#15yrsago MagicJack net-phone: swollen pustule of crappy terms of service and spyware https://web.archive.org/web/20080415200725/http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/magicjacks-eula-says.html

#15yrsago Elite Panic: why rich people think all people are monsters https://web.archive.org/web/20090902045448/https://bombsite.com/issues/109/articles/3327

#10yrsago Canadian govt demands a 10-page questionnaire & CV in order to seek permission to comment on oil pipeline https://web.archive.org/web/20130405212440/http://environmentaldefence.ca/articles/new-undemocratic-rules-create-barrier-public-participation-in-upcoming-pipeline-hearings-co

#10yrsago Major Disneyland attractions shut over OSHA violations https://thedisneyblog.com/2013/04/13/disneyland-forced-to-close-attractions-by-osha/

#10yrsago Google adds a “dead-man’s switch” — uses cases from torture-resistance to digital wills https://consumerist.com/2013/04/12/google-introduces-dead-mans-switch-for-your-accounts/

#5yrsago For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions https://theintercept.com/2018/04/14/donald-trump-ordered-syria-strike-based-on-a-secret-legal-justification-even-congress-cant-see/

#5yrsago Goldman Sachs report: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

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[lily-orchard]

Did you hear about the latest Sarah Z controversy? She used someone's TikTok video in her own video without credit and clipped that TikTok video in a way that it left out the actual point of what the TikToker was saying about fanfiction and classic literature and their accessibility and Sarah presented it in a false context in order to make it support her own claims. She has now removed that clip from the video but refuses to acknowledge that she falsely represented that person and claims it was

claims it was only a dispute over not crediting the person even though the person commented on the video (before the clip being removed) that she is upset that Sarah took her clip out of context and represented in a false way. And Sarah even removed this persons comment and her own non-apology and now seems to pretended that nothing happened.

Isn't she constantly getting in trouble for this? Her getting in trouble for this is how I found out she existed. She does this a lot, I'm wondering why anyone is surprised at this point.

And being angry about it isn't going to do anything, her audience is too big for her to care and they'll take her word.

I think people need to stop trying and failing to use public shame and just DMCA this shit. Cancel Culture isn't real, so trying to make it happen isn't going to work.

[shoujoboy-restart]

Hostis the White No-custody of his children Haver blocking mid discourse like the bitch he is lol

After I pointed he was having a True Post-racialist Moment™ by posting some ethno-nationialist that believes all black people have low IQ schizo posting or whatever, the dude gets big fucking mad, calls my art cringe, malds at me joking that a one year old post(already older than most of his blogs lol) gets more notes than a fresh ass post of his. Makes another malding responce probably as to why a white supremacists is based or whatever, can't know don't care to cuz he's a lil bitch that blocks mid response.

Fucking lol.

But get he's still better than his idol who says he hates big daddy government but uses false DMCAs to censor critics lol

But i mean he also loves big daddy gobernment if it means genociding natives, so i guess "enslavement" only bad when white guys fuck each other over because of ideology i guess.

#discourse #politics #racism #anti sjw bullshit #anti sjw fuckery #team blocked #Youtube

[fancyfairywings]

If this wing design pops up on any store besides mine, it’s an illegal copy. For months now, overseas factories have been making rip-offs of my Titania fairy wing design as flapping wings, & they're showing up all over the web, undercutting me. Them making flapping wings itself is not the issue, the issue is they're ripping off this specific design. Jordan and I both knew that eventually, big factories would make  cheap versions of them. But they're ripping off my *specific* original wing designs to do it. Color variations don’t make it legal. Changing it 10% doesn’t make it legal, that's a myth. I'm the ONLY legit seller of this wing design. I filed with USCBP to stop imports at the border, but I don’t know if they’ll all be caught. I send removal notices, but anyone dealing with this knows certain sites are terrible at actually doing anything. Even when they do, these companies then file FALSE counterclaims, claiming rights they don't have, which means it can then go right back up within 10 business days unless I get a court order. The new Copyright Claims Board means we can now file 'Misrepresentation of a Claim' to fight some of them, but it still costs us. It adds up. I know the hot topic right now is AI art, but this actual blatant type of theft has been an even bigger problem without comparable media coverage or outcry. The real problem is a broken system. We need our education systems to teach about internet etiquette & copyright law, and better systems in place to protect us. DMCA laws need to be updated to better hold huge platforms accountable. They ignore us too often. Hell, maybe they can use AI to create an automatic detection & royalty system any time our designs & images are posted elsewhere online, wouldn't that be nice? Or divert funds from counterfeits to the original artist? YT does it with musicians' music, why not visual art? Please spread the word, don’t buy counterfeits! And if you haven't yet, see my 'Copyright' Highlight. The spread of copies of my photos without credit perpetuates the problem, small infringements often lead to more harmful ones.

#flappingwings #flappingfairywings #supportartists #copycats #iptheft #designtheft

[ninjapotatohead]

crappy sonictubers

fandom fuckery

sonic community nonsense

↑ Do you understand that this includes you as well?

Both you and the person picking fights with you guys are trash

I don't understand why you guys liked jerk stay with this franchise

Too many people can't even read

• I'm not a Sonictuber

• I don't accuse people of shit they didn't do

• I don't spread misinformation without a source

• I don't send false DMCA claims to people calling me out

• I don't associate with actual criminals

"Too many people can't even read"

People like you, for example.

#spud's inbox #sonic community nonsense #crappy sonictubers #fandom fuckery

[peaches-faust]

I'm feeling spicy 3, 10, 13 and 24 for no straiight roads!

Wow, another NSR related ask!

screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

Not on Tumblr but on Twitter, but that whole Saturn thing was just...one big worst take. Them accusing Metronomik of being racist because they blamed them for getting unfairly suspended, even though they got suspended by a DMCA claim that Metronomik had no control over.

Then there was them claiming they made No Straight Roads and DJSS popular, which just reeks of entitlement. The sad thing is I was in agreement they got unfairly suspended, but they just had to act like an entitled brat and make false accusations. It was just the worst moment of the NSR fandom.

worst part of fanon

This isn't just the NSR fandom, but for fandom in general, but some people getting way too hostile over headcanons and ships. I'll admit this fandom isn't the worst with this, but I've seen some people treat certain headcanons and ships as canon and get uppity when people don't share it.

People can do want, but in the end, your headcanons and ships aren't universal and don't attack people/creators for not sharing them.

worst blorboficiation

Skipping since I can't think of any...

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

Kliff, I may not like him but I think some people can go way to far with their hate for him.

Choose violence ask game

#anonymous #no straight roads #nsr #nsr fandom salt #fandom salt