"Where's The Fair Use Progress" #WTFU
Click to viewI won't start holding my breath just yet, but yeah, things seem to be ever so slightly less shitty than they were prior to this #WTFU campaign, so that's good, I guess. However, there's the potential for things to become ever so much more shitty[1] than they already are now, which is bad, and there's no guessing involved there.
But really, though... zombie apocalypse?
And this goddamn bullshit.
"As we’ve witnessed in the past with legislation that has attempted to limit online piracy, on the day before the Copyright Office’s cut off date for submissions a rogue organization, Fight for the Future, staged a twenty-four cyber attack in an attempt to crash the Copyright Office’s servers and discredit the study.
"'FFTF employed a sophisticated campaign of technology and misinformation to electronically generate tens of thousands of identical canned comments to the CO website. Further instead of having users visit the consultation comment page for comments as the Copyright Office requires, FFTF used a web form hosted by Fight For The Future.' The Trichordist. Read Entire Post.
"There's really no other way to describe these kind of actions than coordinated cyber bullying campaigns built on distorted information to incite an angry online mob. A mob that mobilizes and then disappears quickly back into the shadows."
Fucking "cyber attack"? People making their voices heard in the face of some serious horseshit is "coordinated cyber bullying" now, according to these assholes? And these DMCA-abusing motherfuckers, of all people, have the gall to call Doug's video "misinformation"? Holy fucking shit. Wow.
(No, seriously, stop and consider this for a moment. These assholes are actually trying to compare this to run-of-the-mill 4chan/Anonymous/GamerGate bullshit. See what you've done, 4chan/Anonymous/GamerGate? You've gone and fucked around with your stupid little "movements" and "campaigns" and "crusades" and other such bullshit so much that now that something actually important has come along and a bunch of people get together to try to make something worthwhile happen, it just gets blown off as a "cyber attack" or "cyber bullying" or whatever.)
Oh, and not to even mention the fact that their bullshit is basically explicitly equating video game reviews and Let's Play videos to "online piracy" now.
It's just...
I mean, really...
*facepalm + weary sigh*
Yep, Doug's right, these are the goddamn morons that have to be dealt with before any headway at all will be able to be made on this issue. Sadly, frustratingly, these hateful shitbags have a fuckton of money and power and the ability to influence the clueless morons in government. This is not a new thing, by any means. I'm not sure if this is a case where Hanlon's razor can be applied, or if these asshats actually are being actively malicious with this deceitful bullshit. And I'm honestly not sure which would be worse. Either way, it's a terrible situation.
(EDIT) Also, some idiot in the comments under the Youtube video embedded above started comparing #WTFU to GamerGate. I made the horrid mistake of actually replying to him. (I don't know why I thought it was a good idea at the time to do so, looking back on it. I really, truly don't.) Actually, I wasn't even responding to him. I was responding to someone who had replied to him who tried to claim that GamerGate was oh so great until a "bunch of assholes" "hijacked" the "movement" and "jumped on the bandwagon" after the fact (the phrases in quotes were phrases the second guy actually used in his comment). I replied to that guy and said that, no, actually, there was no "hijacking" involved, since the "bunch of assholes" were the ones who started the whole "movement" in the first place, and that if anyone had "jumped on the bandwagon," it was the poor, clueless, misinformed fools who actually honestly cared about ethics in games journalism but who had unfortunately swallowed the GamerGate "actually, it's about ethics in games journalism" lie. I also said that comparing GamerGate to #WTFU is a grievous insult to #WTFU, since GamerGate is such an irredeemably toxic shithole (which, admittedly, was more a response to the original commenter than to the other guy). The original commenter replied to me, called me a "fucking moron" who "drank the Kool-Aid," and then spewed a bunch of the same old, banal, unsubstantiated, conspiracy theorist, false-flag horseshit, before apparently muting/blocking me. Ah, well, given that this sort of thing is typical of supporters of Irredeemably Toxic Shithole, after all, I don't know why I was expecting anything even remotely different. That's what I get for even reading Youtube comments in the first place, I suppose. *shrug* (/EDIT)
[1] - The funny/weird thing here is that both sides are claiming that the DMCA doesn't work. The difference is that #WTFU wants the broken shackles to be loosened, but these Takedown/Staydown assclowns want the broken shackles to be tightened even more. In any case, it goes to show how utterly broken the current copyright laws are. One side (#WTFU) wants to fix the broken parts of the law, whereas the other side (TD/SD) wants to double down and make the broken parts even more broken.