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  • Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification

    From bbsing@VERT/LUNAROUT to Mauro on Sunday, September 27, 2026 19:49:00
    Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: Mauro to bbsing on Wed Mar 11 2026 20:56:59

    In Brazil, the newly enacted FELCA Law requires Operating Systems­including Linux, Windows, and certain BSD distributions, to implement regional blocking for ISO image downloads within the country. However, the law remains ambiguous; while it mandates restrictions for OS usage, it fails to specify the required methods for age verification, creating a significant legal 'gray area'.

    I'm not sure they are solving the issues of social media abusing adults and children by implementing laws like this.

    I think they should be targeting the social media platforms that wrote algorithyms to target people in a way that manipulates and hurts them instead of uplifting and helping them.
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  • From bbsing@VERT/LUNAROUT to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, September 28, 2026 20:56:45
    Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to bbsing on Mon Sep 28 2026 07:48:00

    In the USA, the recording industry negotiated a fund to be created from a charge on blank media produced, with the assumption that the only reason for recordable media was to pirate copyrighted music. Buy a CD-R for data backup or OS installation? You're paying the RIAA.

    Does that totally make sense when considering blank tapes. People could put their personal recordings on CD-R, voice or music, not just data. I thought CD-R and CD-RW was about media, kinda like floppy disc, or zip drive, it was just another media storage platform for storage and or distribution.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 07:31:20
    Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to bbsing on Mon Sep 28 2026 07:48 am

    In the USA, the recording industry negotiated a fund to be created from
    a charge on blank media produced, with the assumption that the only
    reason for recordable media was to pirate copyrighted music. Buy a CD-R
    for data backup or OS installation? You're paying the RIAA.


    Isn't that canada that did that.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to bbsing on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 17:25:59
    Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: bbsing to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 28 2026 08:56 pm

    In the USA, the recording industry negotiated a fund to be created from a
    charge on blank media produced, with the assumption that the only reason
    for recordable media was to pirate copyrighted music. Buy a CD-R for data
    backup or OS installation? You're paying the RIAA.

    Does that totally make sense when considering blank tapes. People could put their personal recordings on CD-R, voice or music, not just data. I thought CD-R and CD-RW was about media, kinda like floppy disc, or zip drive, it was just another media storage platform for storage and or distribution. BBsing, Sysop of Lunar Outpost, lunarout.sycnhro.net

    I think there were plenty of cases where people were making copies of music CDs and making their own music mix CDs with various songs of their choice. In the late 90s and early 2000s, I recall it being a popular thing to download MP3s from Napster & such and burn them to audio CDs.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, October 03, 2026 19:18:34
    Re: Re: CA bill No. 1043 age verification
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Fri Oct 02 2026 10:37 am

    With cassette tapes, it was fairly easy to make a copy of a tape with a
    dual cassette deck.

    I had tons of cheap boom boxes growing up, including a couple of those that would let you dub a cassette. You know, not one of them recorded accurately - the copy always ended up sounding sped up so I never got into dubbing tapes.

    I hadn't really noticed the speed issue when copying tapes, but maybe at the time I just didn't notice. I have noticed that some cassette decks play slightly fast or slow. Years ago, I digitized a cassette onto my PC using a boom box that my mom had, but there were parts that didn't really sound good, so I wanted to re-do it. I bought a USB cassette deck from Amazon and digitized it again with that, and it did sound better - and I noticed the USB cassette deck played slightly slower. I have a feeling the boom box I originally used may have been playing it too fast (rather than the USB deck playing too slow).

    I think the issue is that there's some degradation. You could make a tape for friend 1, if friend 1 made a tape for friend 2 and friend 2 made a tape for friend 3, the sound degradation would be cumulative.

    Yeah, I believe the tape hiss and possibly other noise tends to get recorded onto the second tape.

    I've also heard of cassette-based multi-track music recorders that had the same problem - I recall reading that some would work by swapping cassette tapes, so each time you recorded a new track along with the previous track, the previously recorded tracks would sound worse due to cassette audio degradation. At least, for analog tapes.

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