So I’ve heard that some people have had bad experiences with upgrading to Windows 10. Namely, the computer just refused to boot after the thing restarted during the upgrade, a sign that their hard drives were probably nuked to hell.
Well, this just happened to my dad.
But, not all was what it seemed! I think the upgrade messed with some crucial partition table stuff and just made it look like all was lost. But after digging in with a recovery tool, it turned out that the drive wasn’t wiped and the upgrade was merely unfinished.
Perhaps the same happened to those people or anyone you know.
If your computer refused to boot up after restarting once for the upgrade to Windows 10, this might help you out.
Run the MCT and select “Create installation media for another PC” and click “Next.”
Choose your language, any edition (you’re not installing anything) and your architecture.
Have an empty flash drive ready and plug it in. Select “USB flash drive” and select your flash drive on the next screen. After that, a W10 installation file will download onto your drive.
When that’s done, take the flash drive and plug it into the plagued computer and turn that on. Some may boot automatically into the USB drive, or require a keystroke to show a boot menu (F12 in my case). If you get a boot menu up, look for the option labeled USB and select it.
When booted into the USB drive, a Windows 10 installation screen will pop up. Select your language and continue. Do not click “Install now”. Instead, click on “Repair your computer.”
In the “Choose an option” screen, click on “Use another operating system.” It should be there if all is well. If not, then RIP.
Finally, click on “Windows 10.” Or “Windows Rollback” if you figured all of this was just plain old ridiculous.
Voila! The upgrade should resume and the world has not ended! (and you also have a neat recovery flash drive in case other things go awry.)
Even better, the Orphan Works Law isn’t even a bill being considered by congress, it’s a proposal by the Copyright offices and they want feedback on it.
That feedback is apparently “Everyone panic they’re taking away our copyrights” which wasn’t their intentions at all as I stated in my previous post.
So yes, it is once-again Tumblr not fact checking and reacting based purely on raw emotions rather than facts, rational thought, or taking a moment to consider if they’re reblogging something true or not.
Okay, so reading the actual Law as it’s written in legalese, I even MORE think people on Tumblr are freaking out over nothing. To TL;DR it in human speak, it says along the lines of:
If you want to make a work based on something you find on the internet (Let’s say a drawing on DA), then you have to TRY and find the copyright holder. Not just a “Google search, do I find them? Nope! This is mine now” but like, a DETECTIVE level search for them.
This means E-mails, websites they are on, usernames they go by, addresses, phone numbers, the works. You HAVE to TRY and find the Owner of that work.
Then and ONLY THEN can you file a copyright for it to make it yours.
BUT IF THEY ARE USING THAT PROPERTY, AND YOU’RE JUST UNDER A DIFFERENT NAME, then you can still file for Infringement because you have been posting the same content and still have full copyright on your work.
This literally means you have to basically be dead, go completely dark, or not care at all for someone to take a piece of work you posted up and make it their own.
The other half is about pieces of work that have so many people help make it literally no one knows who has copyright on what.
Example: Slenderman. 1 guy on a Forum made the original pictures. Marble Hornets then made a popular Youtube series that added to that lore. Slender: The Arrival then made collecting pages popular. Various other people added Proxies, and Symbols, and new characters, etc, etc
In the case of this, they want to Create an organization where all of those Copyright holders can choose to be a part of it or not, and you all get compensation if someone comes along and decides to use part of your idea.
Literally no one will be able to just casually steal your ideas or your copyrights and they’re not being ‘flushed down the toilet’ as a popular image is showing.
So yeah, basically as far as I can tell Tumblr is upset over basically nothing. They think the scary legal speak is saying “Gov’munt gonna come and steal mah baby!” when in actuality the new Copyright bill is about giving the people the ability to create projects out of things that either no one cares about/owns anymore anyway, or so many people are part of the project that it’s just easier to split the compensation anyway.
If you have specific examples from the law itself that proves me wrong, then by all means feel free to correct me, but otherwise it’s all just mass hysteria, as per usual on this website.
The only reason my artblog is called razethisbarn is because when “Apple Family Reunion” came out with that song, I thought I’d be real fucking clever by hogging this name.
Buuuuut I think I’m gonna relinquish the name. Maybe for something more boring, but descriptive.
postmoderncactus came to mind. Maybe? I dunno. Or just cactus-draws.
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pvryohei once mentioned that alternatively, PC updates can be held until daytime hours before posting instead of immediately posting them right after exporting at 2 AM.
As logical as this might be, it just wouldn’t be a PC update if it weren’t at 2 AM, you feel me?
