Service Issue

The internet could change next week, and not in a good way

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression. 

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report. 

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now. 

If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu. 

DAY 2937

Jalsa, Mumbai                    Apr 15/16,  2016                   Fri/Sat  12:34 am

Life is that excitement when a drawer, withdrawn and neglected for years, gets your attention and it opens almost impulsively .. impulsively because you had not meant to open it but you did .. curiosity, time lapse, non visited location in the home .. several thoughts and reasons dribble their way through the mind ! But what really remains is the flash of time that goes by, the reasons for the letter or the paper, the comments on it, mostly the comments .. those inspirational words, those inspiring words, of behaviour and deeds and circumstances that run past your limited vision now since, time to be devoted to them has no time at all ..

Its like :

“ Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE ; TALENT will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent ; GENIUS will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb ; EDUCATION alone will not ; the world is full of educated derelicts 

PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent !!”

an important quote from a learned source … and this, from a prominent stage actor in the West :

“I’m not so embarrassed when I’m talking as when I read what I have said. I hope what I do as an actor is interesting but I do find it difficult to talk about it.”

Hmmm … sounds familiar .. hehah .. and this :

“Our business is a very monastic life and you have to find happiness within its framework.”

and this :

“ It takes courage to analyze your body as it goes downhill.”

and finally this :

“Jean Françios Revel , said ‘la CONNAISSANCE INUTILE’

What we need to be aware of is the fear today of ‘perversion of words’ and ‘approximative information’ …”

All noted and read and written by me in my hand in ink and diary in the period of mid 80′s .. 

My love as ever ..

Amitabh Bachchan

Ethereum faucet is back!

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A walk in the park..Bono