Shame on you.

Don't you know that linking to links that link to links that have DCMA'd
is a crime?

Enjoy the bars.

> On Thu, 31 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:11, Brett wrote:
> > 
> > > Pursuant to a rights owner notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright
> > > Act (DMCA), the Wikimedia Foundation acted under the law and took down and
> > > restricted the content in question. A copy of the received notice can be
> > 
> > > Reverse engineering necessary to have open source in the brave new world?
> > 
> > PCI spec docs (and many others) are copyrighted.  Maybe they should be,
> > maybe they shouldn't, but they are.
> > 
> > As far as I know, the actual specs cannot be copyrighted (or it's
> > murky), but knowing wikipedia, somebody probably copied an entire
> > table from the doc and dropped it into the article.  that's a no-no,
> > and not something I'd find nearly as alarming as "censorship".
> 
> Actually, the crime consisted in linking to a few PDFs located
> elsewhere. The last revision of the article to contain the links is:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conventional_PCI&oldid=405114605

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