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TheMukt reports:
Over the last few days we have seen increased activity on the nightly changelogs which suggest [CyanogenMod has] incorporated a call recording feature into its most recent nightlies. Generally speaking call recording is largely considered very grey in terms of the law and as such it seems CM is not offering this feature as a direct and obvious feature.
Instead what we are seeing is the call recording setting can be activated by the user but does require a little bit of knowledge. This presumably is a way for CM to avoid any direct law breaking. So to be accurate CM [is] now offering support for call recording although not the feature directly.
Related: Record Customer Service Calls
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(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday August 27 2014, @08:41AM
You're making assumptions about what I do and how I feel about other topics with zero factual information to support it. You're also making some terrible comparisons that just don't work. In the case of streaming and youtube, most uses of copyrighted work are more of a fair-use case, with the presence of the work being incidental to the stream/video itself. Game videos, for example, are generally more about the people playing as the game than the game itself.
In the case of news aggregation sites like /., SN, and PD, the comments are the content. The sites become popular for the comments, so pipedot scraping SN in full and then dumping it all -- comments included -- is just content swiping. If it were just the article submissions, and they were properly attributed*, I wouldn't even care. Pipedot's community should be able to stand on its own, without artificially inflating it with comments from here.
What happens if someone comments on pipedot in response to, say, a comment I write? Will it notify me, or cross-post the comment here? If not, then it's a disservice to the PD community (if there is one) as well, because discussion there is drowned out by copying of comments from here. It's like if you opened a restaurant and filled the tables with mannequins; you can pretend the place is busy and healthy, but in reality it's still empty and doesn't provide a good atmosphere for the real person that wanders in.
I like to cite original sources, provide relevant links to them, and create original content rather than swiping it wholesale and posting it as my own. I permit pipedot to do the same, but it doesn't seem to want to. See above about making assumptions about what I like and what I do without sufficient knowledge.
If it were about spreading news, they wouldn't be copying comments. Sites cross-reference each other all the time and it works out just fine, because of two things: 1. the sites refer back to their original sources, with links; 2. they have their own communities and comments, rather than scraping the contents section of the reference site.
Comment copying means it's not about news, it's about making the site look healthy and busy when it's not. If it were, it wouldn't be resorting to stunts like this.
Also, the "information wants to be free" line of thought is bullshit. The information's already there, and it's already free, so how is blanket copy-pasting of the SN comments section freeing the information? It's not locked away. Again, scraping the SN summaries and providing reference links back would be acceptable, but trying to duplicate SN, comments and all, is just sleazy. If I wanted my comments on pipedot I'd have a login there and be posting them myself. I don't.
* In fairness, I just checked again and the SN scraped pages now have an attribution at the bottom, which they didn't earlier today. That's an improvement, but the comment duplication is still sleazy.