Shawn Boyette ☠ wrote:
On Nov 27, 2007 12:25 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing the
module.
Would
* Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-28 02:50]:
> This has come up before (e.g. the WWW::EuroTV removal request
> in 2003). I still have the same opinion I had back then:
>
> | I think this discussion is missing the point. It should not
> | be: "What can we legally get away with?", but "Do we
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Jim Schneider wrote:
> David Landgren wrote:
> > Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that
> > offers (I would imagine) futures quotes.
> >
> > The author of this module has received a cease-and-desist letter
> > from the owner of the web site, since the mo
On Nov 27, 2007 12:25 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>
> > What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
> > responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing the
> > module.
>
> Would you also
David Landgren wrote:
Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that offers
(I would imagine) futures quotes.
The author of this module has received a cease-and-desist letter from
the owner of the web site, since the module is in violation of the
Terms of Use.
I'm guessing,
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:25:46AM -0800, chromatic wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> > What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
> > responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing the
> > module.
> Would you also distribu
On Nov 27, 2007 12:45 PM, Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think he means a legal DoS, where armies of bank-payrolled lawyers
> come in and C&D the entire *.cpan.org and *.perl.org infrastructure.
This is where I would hope that a small guerrilla force of TPF lawyers
to jump in and issue
* David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-27 17:45]:
> PLEASE TRIM FOLLOW-UPS TO PERL-QA ONLY.
How on Earth is this topical on perl-qa? I’m replying to perl-qa
despite Michael’s request because that’s where the thread now is,
but sensible this ain’t.
> The author of this module has received a
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 20:01 +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> I am well aware of the futility of the quest, what with Goggle's cache
> in the short term, and things like the Internet Archive and the Wayback
> machine in the long term. Nevertheless we have to appear to respond
> actively to somethi
As interesting / important as all this might be or might not be, it has
nothing to do with quality assurance. Take it elsewhere. Perhaps Groklaw,
they might actually have some legal knowledge.
And please don't replace the argument with an argument about how this is
somehow related to QA.
David
Jonathan Rockway wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:42 +0100, David Landgren wrote:
Let's not kill the free software movement by deleting anything that
anyone with a lawyer requests to be deleted.
I don't think it's anything so serious. It's more like "you played, you
lost". The web site owners h
Jonathan Rockway a écrit :
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:55 +0100, Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
All publicly accessible BackPAN mirrors must pull this distribution
manually, given that rsync-without-delete won't do it for you.
Shucks! Too late.
http://kilimandjaro.dyndns.org/~dom/FuturesQuote-0.01.p
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 09:45:59 Andy Lester wrote:
> I think he means a legal DoS, where armies of bank-payrolled lawyers
> come in and C&D the entire *.cpan.org and *.perl.org infrastructure.
If I provide a free public resource and you abuse it, I think I have a right
to ask you to stop ab
On Nov 27, 2007 11:42 AM, David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The module is currently not available on CPAN, but it still lurks on the
> BackPAN (which is where the site owner tracked it down). I don't know
> off-hand the exact list of who is currently mirroring, I think there are
> two o
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Andy Lester a écrit :
>
> I think he means a legal DoS, where armies of bank-payrolled
> lawyers come in and C&D the entire *.cpan.org and *.perl.org
> infrastructure.
Then by all means, start transfering those TLDs over to a Swiss
registrar, now!
-
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:31:53AM -0600, Jonathan Rockway ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> > Would you also distribute a module which effectively performed a DoS
> against
> > search.cpan.org and *.perl.org?
>
> Please delete Firefox from the Internet, since users can click "reload"
> repeatedly an
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:25 -0800, chromatic wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>
> > What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
> > responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing
the
> > module.
>
> Would you also distribut
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
> responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing the
> module.
Would you also distribute a module which effectively performed a DoS against
search.cpan.
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:42 +0100, David Landgren wrote:
> All publicly accessible BackPAN mirrors must pull this distribution
> manually, given that rsync-without-delete won't do it for you.
What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
responsibility of the user of the module,
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Jonathan Rockway a écrit :
> I recommend we delete the AUTHOR information
Done
> and distribute this module on thepiratebay.
I have no idea how, but feel free to burn some bandwidth by
linking to the aforementioned URL.
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On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:55 +0100, Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
> > All publicly accessible BackPAN mirrors must pull this distribution
> > manually, given that rsync-without-delete won't do it for you.
>
> Shucks! Too late.
>
> http://kilimandjaro.dyndns.org/~dom/FuturesQuote-0.01.pm
>
> Come o
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David Landgren wrote:
> PLEASE TRIM FOLLOW-UPS TO PERL-QA ONLY.
Please allow me not to.
> All publicly accessible BackPAN mirrors must pull this distribution
> manually, given that rsync-without-delete won't do it for you.
Shucks! Too late.
http://
Hello and apologies for the cross-posting.
PLEASE TRIM FOLLOW-UPS TO PERL-QA ONLY.
All other non-discussion queries regarding this matter may be directed
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Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that offers (I
would imagine) futures quotes.
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