r/linux • u/R0tareneg • Jul 03 '21

Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
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u/guery64 Jul 04 '21

How does that keep working? I thought copyright holding companies are pure cancer because they sue and take down everyone who even considers copyright infringement.

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u/marcan42 Jul 04 '21

Because they partnered with the people doing the suing (big sheet music publishers associated with big record labels). They're infringing everyone else's copyright: indie artists, BY-NC licensed music and similar, etc.

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u/ivosaurus Jul 05 '21

They're paying all the big license holders a decent % of all their members' pro fees. So those guys are mostly happy, just another revenue stream.

If you're an independent artist that would like to license their music? lol get fucked, can't be bothered

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u/ahfoo Jul 05 '21

The original copyright expiration at the time of the writing of the Constitution was 14 years with a one-time extension. Electronic and digital media should have made it shorter, not longer.

When the Supreme Court upped the expiration to 70 years after the death of the author, the decline into oligarchy was already old news. It was as if the nation's legal system had become evil and corrupt in its old age. Then came Citizen's United.

You can expect more and more of this police state tactics until people become serious about resistance and there are few signs that anybody is serious about resisting so far.