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I've added a notice near the top of PF. Linking to the wiki page to contact reps.
Greg Bernhardt said:I've added a notice near the top of PF. Linking to the wiki page to contact reps.
jhae2.718 said:Is it just for logged in users?
Greg Bernhardt said:I've added a notice near the top of PF. Linking to the wiki page to contact reps.
Evo said:The law is to stop piracy, in other words *theft*, something that we do not condone here, as per our guidelines.
Hurkyl said:When I see things like this, one of the first things I look for is whether they are taking a reasonable position, or if they are taking an infeasible cartoonish position.
zahero_2007 said:How can some student from a poor country buy a 200 dollars textbook while his father's salary does not exceed 100 dollars per month ??. They should better block porn not knowledge .Why not blocking porn websites ? They are more dangerous than downloading textbooks
MarcoD said:Nice. I don't agree on dangerous, but what about:
Porn is only interesting for five minutes (your mileage may vary,) while a textbook lasts you a lifetime?
Curious3141 said:Doesn't get much more booty-ful than a hot nekkid chick.
MarcoD said:Nice. I don't agree on dangerous, but what about:
Porn is only interesting for five minutes (your mileage may vary,) while a textbook lasts you a lifetime?
MarcoD said:Man, it wasn't meant like a platitude; I mostly don't get what the fuzz is about. What am I, muslim? I just have sex, or solo-sex, or a relationship, or nothing. Most of the people just seem to make a lot of fuzz about the things you should care least about.
Andre said:Esc doesn't seem to work for me, but there is always googles cache.
Curious3141 said:You've completely lost me.
Curious3141 said:What always gets to me is how unfairly the system is tilted in favour of the copyright mafia (or as some call them, the MAFIAA, parodying both the RIAA and the MPAA). Filesharers do something wrong - they go medieval on their posteriors. Academic hackers come up with interesting findings related to cryptographic schemes (which have implications on copy-protection) - like deCSS Jon and Dmitri Sklyarov - and they get shut down by ridiculous legislation like the US DMCA, and harassed by the law and the copyright MAFIAA alike.
But when the copyright MAFIAA does something egregiously, horribly wrong, like worming rootkits onto people's PCs, they get away with a mere slap on the wrist (except in some states like Texas).
It's not like the MAFIAA is zealously supporting the rights of artists, anyway - enough artists have already spoken out against them to demolish that myth.
Most of the really ridiculous copyright and copyright-related legislation comes out of the US - the DMCA, and now SOPA/PIPA. Customs and Border agents in the US and affiliated countries (the UK and Australia come to mind) can probe your laptop with impunity for porn and copyrighted material. The US also strongarms other countries into accepting near-facsimiles of US copyright legislation under the guise of the Free Trade Agreements. So, even if I'm not in the US, it does affect me. US policy affects the whole world.
So, please, guys - help nip ridiculous new legislation in the bud. DMCA was bad enough, now this new stuff enables the copyright MAFIAA to do far more with impunity than they were able to get away with before. This new law is going to be as ridiculous as prohibition. Problem is, people ultimately saw sense and prohi was repealed. With the way things seem to be going, I don't think we're going to be as lucky if SOPA is passed.
I support Wiki 100%.
The blackout isn't totally secure, apparently there are many ways of getting round it;Evo said:Also, my view of Google is normal and I can link directly to wikipedia from Google and it's not blacked out. If I didn't know about this from the news, I wouldn't know anything happened. Anyone else not seeing anything unsual?
I didn't have to do anything, perhaps access via google is the difference.Ryan_m_b said:The blackout isn't totally secure, apparently there are many ways of getting round it;
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/how-to-access-wikipedia-during.html
As well as this there is a simple escape button method as mentioned earlier in thread.
Do you have javascript disabled? If not I have no ideaEvo said:I didn't have to do anything, perhaps access via google is the difference.
zahero_2007 said:How can some student from a poor country buy a 200 dollars textbook while his father's salary does not exceed 100 dollars per month ??. They should better block porn not knowledge .Why not blocking porn websites ? They are more dangerous than downloading textbooks
Apparently it's only the main page, I access google through a Google toolbar and the view is normal. Seems to be the same for wikipedia, you only get the message if you access the main page, if you link directly to the content, it's business as usual. At least that is what I'm experiencing.lisab said:Here's what I see at Google:
It works fine, though.
Nope. Are you having problems? I have not attempted to go directly to Wikipedia's homepage, so that is not in my cache, I've just been doing google searches and accessing articles on wikipedia with no problem.Char. Limit said:Just wondering, Evo, do you use NoScript or some similar plugin?