I'd actually prefer a DMCA takedown, I find amusing to fight "restrictive copyright" with its own weapon.
Vito 2017-12-11 18:07 GMT+01:00 Dennis Tobar <[email protected]>: > Nice to hear that is "a bluff". The bad practice about the content > licenses isn't a new thing to fight as free knowledge movement and we could > fight against it using our best resources -as volunteers-: social > networking and fill the contact forms. Other ways, as lawsuits, could take > a long time and resources and... *boring* legal-stuff. > > Thanks everyone for your answers. > > Regards > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Saint Johann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When discussing Everipedia one should also mention that the site in its >> current form does not respect the copyrights of both English Wikipedia >> editors and Commons uploaders: the articles and the files on this fork have >> been contributed without any declaration about the licence of the original >> works *anywhere*, the licence of the project itself is a general ‘CC’, >> which is *not a licence*. >> >> Everipedia as far as we are concerned is a dishonest attempt by Silicon >> Valley’s VC culture to co-opt the encyclopedic format into something that >> could be sold in few years. Given the blatant copyright infringements on >> the site, however, WMF should’ve made some commentary on the site given the >> influx of the news about it in early December. >> >> On 11/12/2017 18:49, bawolff wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> So everipedia.com looks like some sort of Wikipedia fork/competitor. >> Larry Sanger is appearently involved with it (I guess he got bored of >> Citzendium). They seem to be a for profit company that wants to be >> more inclusionist than Wikipedia, and also raise money by selling >> customized articles. >> >> They appear to be advertising that they are doing something with >> "encylopedias" and "blockchain". However, they never specify what they >> are doing, there are no white papers or technical details, which is a >> good measure that something is BS. >> >> Probably they are trying to cash in on the hype around bitcoin. >> Blockchain is an ill-defined enough concept that you can make almost >> anything be "on the blockchain". Unless you are making a currency, it >> is usually a solution looking for a problem. >> >> This definitely has nothing to do with Wikipedia or Wikimedia. >> >> -- >> Bawolff >> >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Dennis Tobar <[email protected]> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone: >> >> I signed, the past week, the list of Tech Ambassador for Spanish Wikipedia. >> My username is Superzerocool, a veteran user (over 12 years) in Wikimedia >> movement, and in the real life I being an Engineer Informatic. I live in >> Chile and I am currently part of the Board of Wikimedia Chile. >> >> In some chapter off-wiki talk (Telegram), an user share us a possibly >> fake-news about the usage of blockchain to avoid the vandalism. >> >> As I see the article[1] (in Spanish), the news talks about Everipedia, a >> startup related with Blockchain technology and how they use the blockchain >> in English articles(?). >> >> As I see the article, the news is fake. >> >> Kindly, >> >> [1]https://www.cuartopoder.es/innovacion/tecnologia/2017/12/09/la-wikipedia-ya-no-se-podra-modificar-arbitrariamente-gracias-a-blockchain/ >> >> -- >> Dennis Tobar Calderón >> Ingeniero en Informática UTEM >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing >> [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing >> [email protected]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors >> >> > > > -- > Dennis Tobar Calderón > Ingeniero en Informática UTEM > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors > >
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