I don't get it. I was able to use a Wikipedia link to find a place to download The Searchers, a John Ford film starring John Wayne in about 30 seconds. How is that not theft that we are facilitating?
Fred > Hi there, > two months after the "smoking cannabis" controversy, the Russian > Wikipedia is in trouble again, this time over an anti-piracy legislation > that will come into force on August 1 and which might result in > Wikipedia as a whole -- not just a few articles -- being blacklisted in > the country. > > The Russian parliament introduced anti-drug and anti-child pornography > legislation last year, and it's already successfully used to censor > encyclopaedic articles, so I guess it's time for more radical steps now; > the new law might lead to banning websites that just /link/ to sites > which hold content copyrighted by others. > > RIA Novosti has more information on the subject: > <http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130709/182150416/Russian-Wikipedia-Faces-Ban-Due-to-Anti-Piracy-Law--Director.html> > > I'm CC-ing the advocacy advisors mailing list because this lies within > their area of expertise; when responding to this e-mail, please make > sure to include both lists. > > -- Tomasz > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
