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 <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 13:11, Henning Thielemann >> <lemm...@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.) >> >> -- >> brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com >> wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
