Effective Altruism Global Poverty Particularly Good: A description of a trip to Nigeria that goes in some detail into the recent history and culture of Nigeria. I really got a better sense of Nigeria as a place from this essay. Powerful people—from Bill Gates to Boris Johnson to Barack Obama—have praised India’s prime minister Narendra Modi
> they talk about an adult content creator, La Sirena 69, who did a copyright claim about blog posts about a Star Trek spaceship that happened to share her name.
I think this is misleading. La Sirena 69 didn't make the claims themselves, they had hired a (bad) company to generally protect their copyright, and the company sent the claims. La Sirena 69 may have been completely unaware of what was happening, and in fact even the company themselves may have been, since it sounds like it was an automated system, so I think you're unfairly implicating La Sirena 69 in DMCA malpractice here.
A different example from a different post that that one links to:
> Attributor.com sent in a formally valid takedown notification on behalf of an academic, demanding that we disable access to a PDF that infringed upon his copyright. Following the statutory requirements, we did so, and notified the user, with instructions on how to submit a counter notification if they wished to challenge the removal. Within a few days we heard back from the (understandably unhappy) site owner, who explained that they were in fact the copyright holder. The takedown notification was issued by an agency working on his behalf, and their bot had mistakenly targeted the original author’s site.
> you say you love me, but have you considered the positive value I provide over your replacement friend or partner? I might be net-negative because I'm preventing your relationship with a better person!
What's the proposed mechanism? If you were monogamous (or… uh… monoamical?), sure. But there's nothing preventing your friends and partners from developing those relationship if they want to, possibly eventually displacing their relationship with you if saturated. The transaction costs of developing intimate knowledge, trust, and abiding love for this new person are not an artificial moat, they're genuine components of your advantage over a stranger.
If you liked the plane story:
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-david-weber-orders-a-pizza/606473
> they talk about an adult content creator, La Sirena 69, who did a copyright claim about blog posts about a Star Trek spaceship that happened to share her name.
I think this is misleading. La Sirena 69 didn't make the claims themselves, they had hired a (bad) company to generally protect their copyright, and the company sent the claims. La Sirena 69 may have been completely unaware of what was happening, and in fact even the company themselves may have been, since it sounds like it was an automated system, so I think you're unfairly implicating La Sirena 69 in DMCA malpractice here.
A different example from a different post that that one links to:
> Attributor.com sent in a formally valid takedown notification on behalf of an academic, demanding that we disable access to a PDF that infringed upon his copyright. Following the statutory requirements, we did so, and notified the user, with instructions on how to submit a counter notification if they wished to challenge the removal. Within a few days we heard back from the (understandably unhappy) site owner, who explained that they were in fact the copyright holder. The takedown notification was issued by an agency working on his behalf, and their bot had mistakenly targeted the original author’s site.
> you say you love me, but have you considered the positive value I provide over your replacement friend or partner? I might be net-negative because I'm preventing your relationship with a better person!
What's the proposed mechanism? If you were monogamous (or… uh… monoamical?), sure. But there's nothing preventing your friends and partners from developing those relationship if they want to, possibly eventually displacing their relationship with you if saturated. The transaction costs of developing intimate knowledge, trust, and abiding love for this new person are not an artificial moat, they're genuine components of your advantage over a stranger.