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James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up – Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos – for audio, text, stills, code, everything.

Just last week, German music professor Ulrich Kaiser posted his research on automated censorship of classical music, in which he found that it was nearly impossible to post anything by composers like Bartok, Schubert, Puccini and Wagner, because companies large and small have fraudulently laid claim to their whole catalogs.

Europeans have one week to contact their MEPs to head off this catastrophe.

Stop what you’re doing and contact two friends in the EU right now and send them to Save Your Internet – before it’s too late.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/mozart-bach-sorta-mach.html

The underground homes, often a century old, are topped with gardens exploding with lush dune grass, diamondleaf willows, and yellow wildflowers—a flash of color in an otherwise gray landscape. 

Who says judo can’t be used in a real life situation? Check out how a security officer in China uses ippon-seoi-nage to resolve a hostage crisis. It’s quite a gutsy move because the hostage taker had a meat cleaver.

Binging with Babish: The Wire Special [source]

The Wire, when it’s not mercilessly killing off characters you’ve come to love and care about, is a showcase of Baltimore junk food specialities.  Lake trout, pit beef, eggs cracked into beers - come for the gritty and heartbreaking depictions of heroin addicts and inner city grade schoolers, stay for the eats! 

There’s a Michigan high school where the students wear costumes in their ID photos. When you’re a senior at North Farmington High School, it’s tradition to dress up as a pop culture character of your choosing to better personalize your student ID. The results are so popular that many of them end up on Twitter under the hashtag #NFID18. Source Source 2