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They want to protect their interests, which means, ultimately, totalitarian-level control over all media, whether they own it or not.īut in more fantastical paranoid scenarios, law enforcement could encompass nominally “anti-terrorist” technologies that can be abused to target political enemies, minorities, etc. Of course, there’s not really a way to know if the use of a copyrighted audio file might fall under Fair Use, and Big Copyright does not care - they are the enemy of Fair Use, unconditionally. My guess is that copyright cops want some way to track Audacity users who use Audacity in violation of copyright.

How might they abuse this?Ī better question might be: What legitimate use might they have for this?Īudacity is vague as to exactly what data is “necessary” to provide to law enforcement. Laws are nominally good, and law enforcement must therefore also be good, right? The “data necessary for law enforcement” category might sound good to many people.

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If the software is gathering information for you, not on your behalf, and reporting it to someone else not you, without your express, informed consent, it fits the definition of spyware. It doesn’t matter whether there’s a good reason for it, or if it is legally mandated. Spyware is concerned with violating users privacy, period. Data necessary for law enforcement is most certainly a spyware concern. The highlighted text in the screen capture of the article below shows why.

This article on ArsTechnica (purports to) debunk this scare story, but I think they arrive at a bogus conclusion.

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Why arguing about Link’s gender is dumb, and why it’s importantĪ couple weeks ago, I saw a news headline somewhere about how the open source software project Audacity had been compromised as spyware, and that users who are concerned about freedom and privacy should not upgrade to version 3.

“Null Room” hidden in Superman (Atari, 1979).

– If you did have some concerns about these new TOS though, well, perhaps this will alleviate some of that for video games, programming, the internet, and stuff

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With the lack of many better alternatives currently available, for free at least, although this statement from Audacity will likely not soothe some of the more troubled consumers, by and large, we suspect that this will continue to remain an exceptionally popular piece of software. Put simply, the only information that would potentially be shared with ‘WSM’ would be within the remits of engagement in updates and/or error reports with any personal data that was collected to retain solely within ‘Muse’ themselves. As such, while clearly sounding a bit concerning, there is nothing for its customers to be worried about here. He went onto say that the terms of service were ‘written by lawyers, for lawyers’. We don’t want users’ personal information – that doesn’t help us.” Although not specifically citing what this ‘data’ was, this was clearly enough to ring a few alarm bells among its community.įollowing an official statement from Daniel Ray, head of strategy at Audacity’s parent company ‘Muse’ though, he has categorically stated that although certain information may be shared with ‘WSM’, it will not include anything that could potentially identify or compromise your system It has, in fact, become so significant that its management has felt compelled to issue an official statement categorically confirming that this will never be the case and Audacity will never ‘spy’ on its users! Audacity Denies Spyware ClaimsĬoming in a report via the BBC, the main concern expressed by the Audacity community was that in their newly updated terms of service, part of the agreement from the user was that they would allow their ‘data’ to be shared with Russian-based firm ‘WSM’.

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– Following an update to their terms of service, however, there has been a significant outcry from its community that Audacity might’ve been set to start engaging in ‘ spyware‘ activities. Don’t get me wrong though, considering it costs nothing, it’s still an exceptionally handy tool for the amateur recorder looking to get their podcast or audio files in order. In terms of what it offers regarding functionality, it’s good, but not exactly professional-grade.

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Admittedly, this is more to do with the fact that it is available as a free download and is relatively user-friendly. For many years Audacity has proven to be one of the most popular audio editing software programs around.