Czech Pirate Party Tries To Show That Linking Is Not A Crime
from the will-this-backfire? dept
The Pirate Party in the Czech Republic is trying to show that linking is not a crime by putting up sites that merely link to some infringing material. The party is doing this to support a high school student facing massive fines for linking to some works covered by copyright. I do wonder, however, if this will backfire. Law enforcement, industry folks and politicians who simply don't understand the technology will not realize the point of such a site, and merely assume that it's yet another "piracy" site. I would think a more effective means of doing this would be to merely iframe the results of a Google search...
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Framing *IS* LInking *IS* Piracy... so Use a Google Serach result
That lawsuit would be fun to watch.
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Attempting to calculate outcome...
Decompiling the mind of a government official...
Result:
while (self.attention_span < goldfish.attention_span)
{
government.ban(Google);
try
{
self.use(Google);
}
catch (search_engine x)
{
government.unban(x);
}
}
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Re:
Who is led by the all mighty re-election dollar without knowing anything == Politicians
Who states they gains the most from banning piracy. == MAFIAA
Who gains the most money, experience and claims they they are only doing what is in best interest of clients == Lawyers
Therefore on a sliding scale of idiocy I'd say Lawyers were most intelligent, followed by Mafiaa, then coming in a dead last are politicians.
QED
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Any time I use such a method, always, without exception, I provide a source link, show no hyperlinks that might be within the source text, and very rarely even post an image. As habit, the reader is reminded that those items are within the original source and encouragement is provided to see that same source.
Without links, that habit proves hard to continue.
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Re: Re:
Politicians are being re-elected.
Lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.
MAFIAA are paying for it all and geeting nothing of real value in return. MAFIAA are definitely top of the stupidity league.
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not really buddy
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Thanks to Monty Python.
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Re: an alternative
{
try
{
// ban can throw a public outcry exception is outcry level above threshold
government.ban(Google);
try
{
self.use(Google);
}
catch(search_engine x)
{
// just throw. no need to check threshold
throw new public_outcry(x.target);
}
}
catch (public_outcry po)
{
government.unban(po.target)
}
}
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