On Thu, 31 May 2012 18:25:14 +0200, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> 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.

I'm sure quoting mails that link to links that link to DCMA'd links is a
felony, too.

Perhaps we'll be sharing a cell.

> > 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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