> On March 5, 2015 at 11:26 PM Gravis <rin...@adaptivetime.com> wrote:
> the link you posted links to a clip from Al Jazeera that was taken > down due to copyright infringement. you do realize that content from > Al Jazeera is copyright and that posting it without permission is > copyright infringement, right? if you do stuff like that repeatedly > they ban you. are you claiming you didn't post the videos and that > there is a conspiracy to oppress you? if so, you have a persecution > complex. If I understand what you are saying you mean that a link to site A which links to copyrighted material on site B is itself a violation of copyright. This is a truly hazardous notion (called "contributory copyright infringement" by some). Link A -> link B -> link C -> link D -> link E -> link F (violating) cause all downstream links to B, C, D, and E, as well as A, to be violations? It's involuntary, since A cannot be expected to traverse all paths to links out of B to check for this supposed violation, especially with transitive closure over the entire Internet and the lack of a useful discriminant for violation. It's retroactive, because site D can change its outbound links at any time after the initial citation of A to B and A will be none the wiser. Doubtless there are other worms in this can, so I rest my case. Peter Olson _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng