[Haskell-cafe] black Wikipedia

[Hans Aberg]

On 18 Jan 2012, at 19:32, John Meacham wrote:

> Not to mention ebay, craigslist, etc..
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/10082416208/monster-cable-claims-ebay-craigslist-costco-sears-are-rogue-sites.shtml
> 
> when there is no burden of proof for someone to take down a site then
> things get very complicated.
> 
> for instance this package could be enough to get all of hackage taken
> down since astrolabe decided they own timezone data[1].
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson-0.1.2

There is the Beastie Boys case, where the judge decided copyright protects what is creatively unique.

Hans


> in fact, SOPA and PIPA would make hackage pretty impossible to legally
> host. Unless the hackage maintainers want to do exhaustive patent and
> copyright searches on all uploaded code before they allow it to be
> posted.
> 
> [1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111006/11532316235/astrolabe-claims-it-holds-copyright-timezone-data-sues-maintainers-public-timezone-database.shtml
> 
>   John
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 13:11, Henning Thielemann
>> <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Andrew Butterfield wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Just add ?banner=none to the url if you really have to read the page
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Maybe the intention was to demonstrate that censorship (in this case
>>> self-censorship) is mostly a problem for average users but not for advanced
>>> users.
>> 
>> 
>> There isn't going to be a disable-javascript or ?banner hack when anyone
>> anywhere can force a website to be redirected to some DOJ page without
>> providing any proof.  (Yes, really.)
>> 
>> --
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>> 
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