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Dance on Youtube, go to jail and get fined?
Lord Jezo
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The DCMA is being used to go after people doing the Electric Slide:
Cnet thing on the issue
I wonder what will happen next. It reads like an Onion article but it seems to be true.
From the blog of the guy who got served, he did some research and it seems to be true.
Maybe.
Cnet thing on the issue
The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing.
I wonder what will happen next. It reads like an Onion article but it seems to be true.
From the blog of the guy who got served, he did some research and it seems to be true.
Maybe.
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Just the words. The melody is a public domain traditional British song named "Good Morning to You" or something like that that kids had to sing in school back in the 1800s.
Not the file format, but a specific implementation of the Lempel Zif-Welch (god I hope I got that right) compressor that's used in the format. Theoretically you could write a GIF compressor that used a totally different implementation, but then it probably wouldn't make very compatible files.
The GIF version of the LZW decompressor is public domain. So you can read them all you want.
8-bit PNG also uses LZW I think ... but I can't find anything to back that up right now.
Can you even copyright a dance?
everything is either viral marketing or emo ranting
-Louis C.K.
I assure you that PNG uses no patent-encumbered compression techniques, as the entire reason it was created was as a free alternative to GIF.
By the way, the LZW patent expired a couple years ago. Now the only reason to avoid using GIFs is the fact that they only go up to 256 colors and animated crap on websites is as annoying as all fuck.
Yeah... that was a little poorly worded of me. PNGs are totally patent-free, but I think that despite that 8-bit PNGs still use LZW. They just use an implementation of the compressor that isn't patented.
Also, the reason to use GIFs is to have correct looking non-photo images on websites and still have them work in the world's most common browser, IE6. IE6 does some crazy color transformation on PNGs that just fucks them all up. There are two ways around this: convert all PNG images on your site to DX Overlay objects (like the PA homepage does) or don't use PNG unless you absolutely have to.
IE7's more correct support of PNG should be the death-knell for GIF for everything except minor animations.
I love the furry videos. Seven minutes of a guy dressed up as a sex vixen wobbling around awkwardly.
I wish they would ban all the videos that have crappy music played over them. There's seriously no more then four different songs that everyone on youtube uses.
"Everyone who is capable of logical thought should be able to see why you shouldn't sell lifetime subscriptions to an MMO. Cell phone companies and drug dealers don't offer lifetime subscriptions either, guess why?" - Mugaaz
Of course, I'd have to break down and cry if they ever crack down on movie clips.
But there are some cool things on Youtube.
WARNING CONTAINS DANCING
Links, plz.