I made a whatsapp group with a friend then kicked them so it's only me, then I message myself all the links I need to check out after work. Works relatively well
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It's pretty much impossible for Amazon to tell whether an item is a licensed use of a copyrighted creative work or not. It's perfectly legal to resell work that was legally bought with no additional permission from the creator, for instance. (It is pretty clear from a human analysis here that the seller is infringing copyrights by making prints of digital images found online, but it would be pretty much impossible to create some sort of filter that would block these products from being offered on the platform).
From the thread, it looked like the support representatives engaged with the person complaining on Facebook, reported some items had been removed in the past based on takedown requests. That's pretty responsive, all in all. Maybe the artist could enlist some additional help discovering and helping him and other affected artists report for takedown the items that this seller is offering so they'd eventually . Or they could gather some funds and sue Amazon.
Yes, it may be impossible to create a filter to detect new (previously unseen) copyrighted products on the platform.
However, once a copyrighted product has been through a dispute and the owner has been established by Amazon - it's completely feasible to programmatically detect and flag this product once it re-appears under other accounts. It would actually be quite easy, given Amazon's technology expertise.
From reviewing the thread the artist posted, it appears that's why he's frustrated - that fakes keep re-appearing, and Amazon is asking him to jump through hoops again, even though his authorship had been established.
So, no - I don't feel it's reasonable to ask the author to enlist people to help him police the marketplace, Amazon can easily solve this problem (future infringement) with technology.
No, all these can easily be prevented. In fact these has been prevented by brick and mortar shops fairly reliably for decades. Online sellers can impose background checks, identity verification, automatic law enforcement reporting, security deposits, delayed payments etc. One shouldn't be just able to post a product listing with intentional falsehood and omissions, sold openly to public and get away with it. That should be and is a bonafide crime. A system that allows that is helping to support and proliferate that crime.
Me, the artist tried to report them again. It's impossible. I am getting the message that the ASIN or URL is wrong.
Amazon should simply shut down the seller's shop because they know that he is simply selling counterfeit products. A serious company would do this. I believe they simply chose not to. Because they compete with other unethical companies who are probably worse.
I hope that we the people start realising how bad these policies are and protect ourselves.
My local recycling program no longer accepts almost all plastic recycling due to China blocking shipments because what they were getting from plastic container loads were too contaminated. No thanks!
I'm not exaggerating when I say that your comment shocked me.
If your municipal authority offers 'tours' of landfill facilities I'd urge you to sign-up for one. The scale is staggering.
In Northern Ireland, with fewer than 2 million inhabitants, we have one of the highest recycling rates in Europe ( about 40% ) yet still 400,000 tonnes of waste goes to landfill very year. 200kg per capita
The USA generates roughly twice as much waste per capita...
I've been following some friends' travels through southeast Asia over the last six months via Instagram, and it's been great. Seems like they're having a great time, and I like being able to talk to them about what they're seeing, doing, and eating. Bummer this other person felt her vacation was ruined by what she chose to do.
Got a work machine to upgrade from my 2011 13" MacBook Pro, and the extra screen space really helps with multitasking, but it sure is a lot heavier than the 13".
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Well, it matters if you care about measuring your fat loss. Measuring fat loss by tracking weight is less accurate, because muscle is heavier than fat, if you are exercising to lose fat you may get heavier due to increased muscle mass, even though you are thinner, i.e. carrying less fat. There are other factors that affect your weight, such as water retention. As for why to measure at the hip, well, there isn't much muscle around that area compared to say your thigh, so the size of the muscle is not affecting the measurement output so much, meaning you are measuring fat loss, rather than fat+muscle loss/gain. (Muscle loss is generally not a good thing, it's very important to our health).
Personally I think we need a way to measure our health rather than tracking metrics that can encourage unhealthy relationships with our bodies. Ideally we would be able to quickly assess how close we are to a healthy level of body fat, lean muscle mass, be it is too high or too low. Measuring how heavy / big you are feeds into "weight status" and "thigh gap" fixation. In a less-imperfect world we'd be competitive about how healthy we are, rather than silly and often unhealthy things like thinness, and weight.
If we're talking about fitness goals, generally, weight is actually a fairly poor indicator of progress. Someone can be 200 lb and another person can be 180 lb, and both can be the same height; yet the 200lb person might be stronger or more athletic, while the 180lb person could have very little muscle mass and a much higher body fat %.
Stated in another way, it's entirely possible that a person can gain weight and lose fat -- or even lose weight and accumulate fat.
The size of various parts of your body is a much better indicator compared to measuring weight (measuring one overall size isn't a great help either), although still not the best. Measuring body fat % would be best, but unfortunately, it's not very easy to do so -- at least not without special tools.
The poster should forward that email to whoever else at the company can deal with it so that hopefully someone else doesn't have to deal with it in the future.
