Notices by Jason Scott (textfiles@digipres.club), page 2

Kind of defeats the purpose, really

This is great - I can't say "Your thing got it wrong." It's assumed you have it. There's no "this is in error" option.

Playing the footage over, there is a possibility that music playing in the background at the end during the backstage footage of Jerry Lee Lewis, a historical figure at this point, is triggering the content ID machinery. So if any music is in the air during historic events.... well, bad for you, pal.

The first is:

Copyrighted content: The melody found in Break-Up
Claimed by: LatinAutorPerf, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, and Audiam (Publishing)

I'll be trying to figure out what that exactly means - they don't give a timecode for when this alleged match happens. The fact it's being claimed out of Brazil also makes it noteworthy.

I recently digitized a master tape of Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Wood performing at Woody's on the Beach in 1988.

The video is at https://youtu.be/0nQw4bWomjo

The video has already hit a bunch of copyright IDs and it's interesting to me where they come from.

Claim #2 is coming here:

Video title: Ron Wood and Jerry Lee Lewis (Woody's on the Beach) (November 9, 1988)
Copyrighted content: The melody found in Glöm Dig Själv För En Dag
Claimed by: SOLAR Music Rights Management

This one has been released under a number of names and artists, so it could be in here somehow. There's backstage footage and perhaps it's picking up on something I didn't.

This Content ID nightmare is only going to grow - credulous automatic scanners attributed to whoever has the guts to claim stuff and take monetization from it, which ... it's the music business, of course they've got people willing to do this.

I suspect a scandal over the next few years for over-claims and the rest, resulting in minor little fines.

This is some vaporwavy-vaporwave to the max stuff (March 1, 1984)

For over 15 years, I've been maintaining a near-comprehensive collection and overview of all the BBS Software that was ever released. New versions and items come in occasionally, and the addition of a few more recently made me remember it.

(F15SIM came by and fixed up the whole thing recently, too.)

If you're sitting on BBS software, or want to, visit it:

http://bbsdocumentary.com/software/

The new Speaker of the House deleted his entire website and his entire record of his podcast a day after getting the job. Wouldn't want people to have it.

Man, too bad there aren't any archivists who knew to grab it immediately.

Microsoft Catalog from 1985: Warm, warm aesthetic for your software, long before they went utter and unstopping monopoly.

https://archive.org/details/microsoft-spring-1985-catalog

There is a crazy amount of semiotic information in those demonstration photos.

One of my digitization PCs/Rigs refuses to power up, which I'm going to classify as "Bad".

"So, You Searched Reddit To Figure Out Why Your Internet Archive Emulated Item Didn't Work."

https://www.reddit.com/r/internetarchive/comments/16sbiuq/so_you_searched_reddit_to_figure_out_why_your/

I'm looking for someone who wants to sponsor a flight I want to cover for a librarian who was driven out of their job by protestors, so they can come spend a couple days at the Internet Archive during our big yearly event. DM me or mail me at jason@textfiles.com.

New for me: Anyone have experience with reading from Smith Corona cartridges? Have a couple and want to do it right.

I see a bunch of people are not aware that there were four different main needle types for 78 RPM records, and that this system provides a way to record all four simultaneously after cleaning, which the technician then quickly listens to to determine the most appropriate needle. Just one of many intent choices in digitizing these properly.

I'm really enjoying just flooding the "market" with accurate and massive computer parts prices and listings.

Debinding and digitizing a little Computer Shopper issue (1990) while listening to Dan Olson and Adam Conover chit-chat

How are things going in the other spaces?

Well, if you ask people in DMs on Twitter if they want a Bluesky invite, the DM never goes through. (Asking if they want something like a "y k s e u l b" invite does, and I've confirmed this multiple times).