You know what would be a good idea?
For A/V codec + API developers to rewrite their licenses to prohibit free-as-in-beer use in furtherance of fraud/illegal enterprises/etc.:
Hit EVERY SINGLE CONTENT PRODUCER with $1M+ royalty/licensing fees per instance.
For A/V codec + API developers to rewrite their licenses to prohibit free-as-in-beer use in furtherance of fraud/illegal enterprises/etc.:
Hit EVERY SINGLE CONTENT PRODUCER with $1M+ royalty/licensing fees per instance.
Don't let insurrectionists and terrorists and pedophiles use the product of your own labor to further their enterprises and recruitment drives.
If they want to make videos of themselves inciting riots or raping children, don't be complicit -
If they want to make videos of themselves inciting riots or raping children, don't be complicit -
Make them invest their resources in their own proprietary technology, reducing distribution and reach of their content and draining their coffers.
Help drain them dry.
Help drain them dry.
You decide what your labour helps create: don't want to support racism, misogyny? Exclude videos that promote ethnic or national supremacy from free licensing structures.
Anyone who uses your tech to make something noncompliant accepts whatever royalty structure you pose.
Anyone who uses your tech to make something noncompliant accepts whatever royalty structure you pose.
And for open source code, ensure that derivative works can not be used by those for those same purposes.
This is different than the general "do no evil" licenses - this targets end users of media creation products, where the end product can easily be evaluated.
This is different than the general "do no evil" licenses - this targets end users of media creation products, where the end product can easily be evaluated.
And, as the end product is clear, most corporate IT departments won't have to worry about licensing issues for engaging in these activities.
And it's easily presentable in court.
And it's easily presentable in court.
So if you see content that violates, you can send a archive+takedown notice to the host, and a bill to the entity involved in its production.
And if it actually gets collected, put the bulk of the money towards mitigating the harm and/or monitoring for other violations.
And if it actually gets collected, put the bulk of the money towards mitigating the harm and/or monitoring for other violations.
A standard license template with a table at the end specifying restricted/prohibited content would be far better than one-off licenses...
(actually, TBH, all licenses should be based on a standard template, and deviations from base should be called out for regular folk)
(actually, TBH, all licenses should be based on a standard template, and deviations from base should be called out for regular folk)
TBH, this might be a better path towards content regulation than expecting those who profit from proliferation of extreme content to regulate it.
And if it came to court, I bet'cha discovery to discern who their funding sources are would be super-fun.
We'll see.
And if it came to court, I bet'cha discovery to discern who their funding sources are would be super-fun.
We'll see.
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