YouTube, Spotify Remove QAnon Anthem After Original Composer Asserts Copyright (nbcnews.com) 72
The Washington Post calls it "the gauzy, schmaltzy, vaguely creepy orchestral music unofficially dubbed the QAnon anthem." They also report that it's been "unceremoniously yanked from YouTube and Spotify for violating a harassment policy and alleged copyright infringement, respectively."
NBC News reports: In an email to NBC News, composer Will Van De Crommert wrote that he was "exploring legal options" and that "this particular track, which was originally entitled Mirrors, is available to license online. I however was not notified of any licenses for political rallies, nor did I authorize such use." A YouTube representative said in an email Monday that the company "removed the video in question for violating our harassment policy, which prohibits content targeting someone by suggesting they're complicit in a conspiracy theory used to justify real-world violence, such as QAnon." A Spotify representative said that "the content in question was removed following an infringement claim...."
Van De Crommert said the uploads in question are identical to his and that he has no association with the account that put his music online alongside QAnon language. "I do not align with the views of QAnon, and this individual has unlawfully distributed my music under their own name," he said.
The Post credits the song's morose strings for its impact, describing it as "the kind of stock sentimental, algorithmically emotional pablum regularly employed to sell us trucks, insurance, petrochemicals, diapers, more trucks, pharmaceuticals, whole-grain bread and presidents."
NBC News reports: In an email to NBC News, composer Will Van De Crommert wrote that he was "exploring legal options" and that "this particular track, which was originally entitled Mirrors, is available to license online. I however was not notified of any licenses for political rallies, nor did I authorize such use." A YouTube representative said in an email Monday that the company "removed the video in question for violating our harassment policy, which prohibits content targeting someone by suggesting they're complicit in a conspiracy theory used to justify real-world violence, such as QAnon." A Spotify representative said that "the content in question was removed following an infringement claim...."
Van De Crommert said the uploads in question are identical to his and that he has no association with the account that put his music online alongside QAnon language. "I do not align with the views of QAnon, and this individual has unlawfully distributed my music under their own name," he said.
The Post credits the song's morose strings for its impact, describing it as "the kind of stock sentimental, algorithmically emotional pablum regularly employed to sell us trucks, insurance, petrochemicals, diapers, more trucks, pharmaceuticals, whole-grain bread and presidents."
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Could it be, that the anti-vaxxers were right?
No, it's very unlikely because they have not presented any compelling evidence that it is the case.
If anything this recent study of excess deaths shows there is no outsized increase of deaths among the vaccinated, just the opposite in fact.
After vaccines became available, a partisan gap in deaths emerged [washingtonpost.com]
As I read it described; "One other thing to note: this study looked at excess deaths, not Covid deaths. So if the vaccines were killing people, you'd see it in this data. You don't see it, because they're not."
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Republicans are probably more likely to engage in a wide range of risky behavior, not just being unvaccinated. I believe that the vaccinations at worst are not all that effective, which is still better than nothing, but those figures aren't vaccine-specific.
Horrifyingly the Florida surgeon general (Score:5, Interesting)
And they will. The seize on every little lie from every sellout they can find.
Vaccines have become yet another wedge issue of the alt-right. Something alt-right politicians can give them that makes them feel like they're winning while they use trickle down economics to rob them blind.
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With the difference maybe that this wedge issue finally kills the idiots off. Not fast enough, mind you, but at least it's trying.
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It's too slow to do any good, it mostly kills the old ones who can't breed more, and also they get ever more angry about their shitty plan not working and blame it on everyone else. It just creates more opportunities to bilk them, and they blame that on everyone but the actually responsible parties too.
Breeding isn't an issue (Score:2, Interesting)
The religious right would like to ban and criminalize birth control, but it's too profitable an industry, so fat chance of that happening.
You are correct that the rate of deaths isn't en
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On top of that there's 2 male birth control drugs in trials right now (it's going _much_ slower than female birth control because, well, we kind of looked the other way on the early risks of the girl's pill).
Would love to see a citation for this.
You are correct that the rate of deaths isn't enough to really shift anything. It's around 300k/yr, which sounds like a lot but there are 75 million baby boomers and they're hard at work ending our Democracy. If that happens before they're no longer a political force (about 10 years) it's over. We're going to be a dictatorship and there'll be fuck all we can do about it.
Can you paint with a thicker brush a more prejudicial statement?
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You are correct that the rate of deaths isn't enough to really shift anything. It's around 300k/yr, which sounds like a lot but there are 75 million baby boomers and they're hard at work ending our Democracy. If that happens before they're no longer a political force (about 10 years) it's over. We're going to be a dictatorship and there'll be fuck all we can do about it.
Can you paint with a thicker brush a more prejudicial statement?
Which part(s) do you disagree with? You don't even need to present your counterarguments, just point.
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Can you paint with a thicker brush a more prejudicial statement?
Which part(s) do you disagree with? You don't even need to present your counterarguments, just point.
I apologize for assuming the blatantly obvious would be obvious to everyone.
"It's around 300k/yr, which sounds like a lot but there are 75 million baby boomers and they're hard at work ending our Democracy. "
They know that's happening (Score:2, Interesting)
It comes down to this: what's gonna happen first, will the Baby Boomers hand our democracy over on a silver plate or will they die out before hand?
I honestly don't know. I know pointing out that the Boomers are willing to give up Democracy for a variety of absolutely terrible reasons (mentioning them will get me downmodded, save for one: they don't want people they disagree wit
Re: Horrifyingly the Florida surgeon general (Score:5, Interesting)
Can you name some of these communist ideals that are on the legislative docket?
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I've come to the realization that in many Western countries there are too many stupid people for us to rely on people behaving in ways which make sense or are considerate to others.
Anti-vaxx and anti-mask are just two examples of that. So forgot about vaccinating the population up to herd immunity level, forget about using non-surgical masks to protect each other. Vaccines for those smart enough to want them, moon shot to develop FFP2/3 masks that don't need a fit test to be effective, and deploy UV disinfe
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Literal copy/paste from https://www.theguardian.com/us [theguardian.com]
Fully vaccinated At least one dose
Total pop.65.4%76.8%
Age 12+73.8%86.5%
Age 65+88.9%95.0%
Vaccinations by state
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UID 196126 has been off the hypochondriac's deep end for a solid while, my dude.
I hold out hope that we can still reign it back into reality, but it's been proving quite challenging.
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Anti-vaxx and anti-mask are just two examples of that. So forgot about vaccinating the population up to herd immunity level
Any hope of this vanished with Delta. Prior to delta consensus among domain experts was that it was unlikely to be possible even with total vaccine coverage.
forget about using non-surgical masks to protect each other.
Use of NPIs were at least a rational measure to buy some time for the vaccines to arrive and control carnage within medical system. Post vaccination they became pointless protectionism.
Mask wearing cannot prevent circulation of the virus nor does it offer a reasonable chance of preventing infection over a useful time horizon. It is not credible for a
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Strongly disagree with some of that. Masks, proper FFP3 and FFP2 ones, are effect. It is entirely possible to expect to live long term without getting COVID. We just aren't making the effort to protect people, because too many people think like you - it can't be done, and getting it won't be catastrophically bad for me personally anyway.
As for RSV, 222nm UV kills that too.
You have to think of the immune system as a last line of defence. Yours might be okay but even then you are taking a risk, as you may get
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Strongly disagree with some of that. Masks, proper FFP3 and FFP2 ones, are effect. It is entirely possible to expect to live long term without getting COVID.
This is not a credible expectation. The vast majority of the worlds population have already had covid and most remaining people who think they never had it are mistaken.
We just aren't making the effort to protect people, because too many people think like you - it can't be done, and getting it won't be catastrophically bad for me personally anyway.
I don't assume it can't be done. I only assume it is an unrealistic unreasonable fools errand that causes far greater harm than good. If China and DPRK failed what is the basis for assuming normal countries stand any chance of making it happen forever?
You have to think of the immune system as a last line of defence.
I think this perspective is at best incomplete. Repeated re-exposure to viral challenge
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The fact that masks of type xx are yy effective at preventing infection is irrelevant when amortized over years of repeated exposure. No matter how lucky you are eventually you are going to roll snake eyes.
This kind of absolutism is always a sign of a logically fallacious argument. Specifically, your argument completely ignores the issue of repeated infection, and lasting effects. Put simply, the more times you get covid, the worse off you are, so preventing some infections is still desirable even if you still sometimes get infected.
You could equally say "you're eventually going to die anyway" which is a real argument that real trolls have really used here on Slashdot. It would be equally true, and equally us
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This kind of absolutism is always a sign of a logically fallacious argument. Specifically, your argument completely ignores the issue of repeated infection, and lasting effects. Put simply, the more times you get covid, the worse off you are, so preventing some infections is still desirable even if you still sometimes get infected.
Sars2 is one of the most infectious respiratory virus known to man. Repeated infection is assured. Do you have evidence to support your theory a longer cadence between infections is in fact harmful vs the alternative of shorter cadence? A citation would be most helpful.
You could equally say "you're eventually going to die anyway" which is a real argument that real trolls have really used here on Slashdot. It would be equally true, and equally useful.
It's interesting someone can attempt to falsify a statement and in the very next sentence try to claim it is non-falsifiable. This must be a "sign" of a logically consistent argument.
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Mask wearing cannot prevent circulation of the virus nor does it offer a reasonable chance of preventing infection over a useful time horizon. It is not credible for anyone on earth to expect to live their lives without covid exposure.
The fact that masks of type xx are yy effective at preventing infection is irrelevant when amortized over years of repeated exposure. No matter how lucky you are eventually you are going to roll snake eyes.
Last I read, the dosage of SARS-CoV-2 h
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Last I read, the dosage of SARS-CoV-2 has an effect on the severity of the infection. Perhaps that's stated too certainly, but it's known to be the case with various viral infections. So then wearing masks may not help the wearer and or the people around in avoiding contact with the virus, but it may well attenuate the dose, and this reduce the risk of severe disease.
Can you offer even a single study linking mask wearing with improved clinical outcomes post infection? I'm aware of no such research.
But I'll never tell people who wear masks that it's totally useless
I agree not totally useless yet no substantive benefits have been demonstrated.
and they're being silly.
I agree, derisive commentary serves no constructive purpose.
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No, I'm not aware of any such study. But there are plenty of studies that show that mask wearing can reduce the intake of aerosol droplets with viral loads. Depending on the situation, masks effectiveness varies between nil and high in that regard. So for me it's a logical conclusion that there are cases where masks bring a benefit in the sense of exposure. Saying that masks
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No, I'm not aware of any such study. But there are plenty of studies that show that mask wearing can reduce the intake of aerosol droplets with viral loads. Depending on the situation, masks effectiveness varies between nil and high in that regard. So for me it's a logical conclusion that there are cases where masks bring a benefit in the sense of exposure.
Well if we are going to go with inductive arguments...
For me it's a logical conclusion if there were a useful benefit it would have been found given the triviality of recording such data and the sheer volume of masking studies conducted throughout the pandemic. Especially studies from China et el looking specifically at constant mask wearing within households to prevent transmission. It's not like these concepts were new or not widely known prior to the pandemic.
Omicron has three orders of magnitude highe
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If anything this recent study of excess deaths shows there is no outsized increase of deaths among the vaccinated, just the opposite in fact.
After vaccines became available, a partisan gap in deaths emerged
I personally don't put much stock in this study due to failure to effectively control for age. While I believe covid vaccines lowered deaths by an order of magnitude sloppiness is sloppiness regardless of whether a result happens to comport to ones preferred outcome.
From page 1 of the study:
https://www.nber.org/system/fi... [nber.org]
"These expected deaths are calculated non-parametrically using 2019 data by aggregating deaths into counts Nmcpa,2019 at the month-by-county-by-party-by-age-bin level"
"The age bins used
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You know it's getting bad when even Creimer won't post here anymore. Frankly I'm glad for him. His time here wasn't productive.
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I try not to follow his media accounts. But that's quite sad if he still posts here incognito. It seems he hasn't learned anything.
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The vaccines make people mentally insane. Insane enough to believe in QAnon, the big lie, that NARA is the enemy of the people, and flat earth.
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Lots of people clotting out and dropping dead
There should be a pile of bodies somewhere. And lots of vacant houses and a respective drop in real estate prices. But don't let reality get in your way.
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Could it be, that the anti-vaxxers were right? Lots of people clotting out and dropping dead.
You don't get out much, do you?
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It's Sunday morning, they're all in church.
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It's Sunday morning, they're all in church.
Reading 8chan you mean?
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It's annoying to hear them chortling in the pew behind me.
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Hey. If it works for NFTs it should work for Q!
Augmentation (Score:1, Offtopic)
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You don't get how this works. 4 guys aren't getting laid off, 4 guys are repurposed for other jobs more suitable to human beings. Really what you're pointing out is how many "jobs" are actually useless busy work that don't benefit the economy in any conceivable way and they exist primarily so flunky failsons have a chance to earn income that doesn't come from daddy.
I'm ignoring that your comment is wholly unrelated to the article becuase you didn't seem to notice yourself.
Is Yackety Sax out of copyright yet? (Score:2)
Could Hitler have been stopped (Score:2)
If they had just revoked the copyright on the Horst Wessels Lied?
Can it be proved that QAnon even exists? (Score:3, Interesting)
Seems to me that anybody could make some insane video, or meme, or whatever, and claim it's from QAnon.
I don't follow any QAnon crap that closely. I really don't know.
Re:Can it be proved that QAnon even exists? (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a definite clear theme of particular conspiracy that is "QAnon" mostly from it's now years old origins in that there is a secret group of "patriots" deep in the government working with the Trump admin under the radar to weed out the "deep state" bad actors and either imprison them or even execute them with secret military tribunals.
Since that idea was always pretty silly and the longer the Trump admin went on without the "big day" of the mass arrests of their enemies they were all counting on the people that run with it have folded just about every other conspiracy into it, from JFK and 9/11 all the way to Flat Earth. If you believe in any of these type of conspiracies the Q people have a way to bring you into their fold.
Q folk never have to be "right" because just like Nostradamus the "predictions" that Q makes are so vague and contradictory at times they can be mentally stretched to never be wrong. As far as they see it there are no wrong predictions, just wrong timelines (look at the growing image of the "Q Clock" to see how wild this gets). Anyways it's become pretty clear that Q today is just Ron Watkins from 8Chan or any one of their close assosciates.
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This nonsense all came from Michael Flynn.
In case people forgot, Michael Flynn was the guy that had a DSL connection installed in his Pentagon office because he found the security protocol for DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE networks too onerous. Slashdot is populated by folks that understand IT - if someone in your office said "Nah, I'll just install my own internet connection" because they didn't want to use the proxy, how would that go down with IT security? Like a lead fucking zeppelin is how.
MEANWHILE people
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Look, you're right about Flynn, but "Every byte of Clinton's emails are accounted for" is false. It's not known what was deleted, unless the NSA has a copy.
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Don't bother - BlueAnon doesn't listen to reality either.
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Hucksters, and even many true believers, have learned to never be too specific. Sometimes when they give a date and it flops then the followers all leave. Not always but it's happened. There was the cult/sect that predicted the second coming on a certain day and the members sold off all their belongings, including houses, went up the hill to wait... and nothing happened. Most of them left, embarrassed. These days, they dig in, admitting mistakes is not allowed.
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Sadly, they might lose some momentum from a wrong date prediction, but true believers almost never leave the fold when proven wrong that way. Not immediately, anyway.
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There were the Millerites. Their leader eventaully settled on October 22nd, 1844, as the "no later than" date of the return of Jesus. When it didn't happen, the group mostly split up and went different ways, some forming their own groups becoming the Adventist movements (the biggest being Seventh Day Adventists). This date was know as the "Great Disappointment". While the movement kept on, the theology changed a lot and varied between the groups (splittists!) and they stopped being a doomsday cult. Som
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QAnon exists simply by posting messages. The only thing that's necessary is identifying him, and there's two likely suspects.
"Official" QAnon posts are identified by using tripcodes. These are generated by typing in a certain password, and generates a hash. Users posting message using the same password will also have the same hash, and that identifies QAnon.
Of course, his initial password choices on were compromised, thus he had to change the password a few times.
Q (Score:2)
Did John De Lancie sue them yet?
This suggests a strategy against Putin (Score:2)
Have some copyright troll assert a prior right to the Russian national anthem, and get the East Texas courts to rubber-stamp the claim. Then the troller can levy against frozen Russian assets In the US. Profit!
Algorithmic music (Score:2)
Soon someone will build the musical equivalent of DALL-E, and you'll be able to ask it to generate "gauzy, schmaltzy, vaguely creepy orchestral music".
No more copyright problems!
Agadoo (Score:3)
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For those of you too young to remember the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Engineers vs. (Score:2)
Interesting that we say we value STEM but patents are good for 20 years while the great grandchildren of some maroon who wrote down a few notes can collect royalties 150 years later.
This is a revealed preference. Nobody actually cares about engineers. Rarely is one on the cover of People Magazine. Only artists.