AW: [SMW-devel] Wiki's becoming illegal in France?

[Johann D. <mo...@bl...>]

 
I'm not sure about this - Wikipedia has already a very powerfull mechanism
for eliminating copyright-abuse:

-- Peer-Review

If someone sees such a thing, he can mark it and solve the problem as fast
as sending an e-mail. Warnings by lawers are senseless, because a simple
delete of the article while marking it as copyright-abuse is cheap and easy.

True, it's not possible to avoid copyright-abuse at all - but the response
time to such things is very low. At least better than many other techniques.

MovGP0

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> If I understand this correctly, this law - especially with 
> the amendment proposed by the industry - is absulutely ridiculous!
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> This law only makes some kind of sense when interpreted in 
> terms of "Any software that is suited to disable copyright 
> mechanisms" or similar.
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> > Now, obviously, any wiki can be used to publish copyrighted 
> material,
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> Sure, but if they would really take it that strict, they 
> woult have to ban all eMail clients and servers too.
> And FTP-Software. And the Apache web server aswell.
> And telephones. Because you could still play a copyrighted 
> song over a telephone.
> 
> This law is - in it's strict sense - practically unobeyable.
> 
> Or did I get something wrong there?
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> How is the common practice on laws like this in France?
> Would Wiki devellopers really have to fear getting sued, as 
> long as they don't include special DRM removal features?
> 
> 
> Cheers - Heiko *uncomprehendingly shaking his head on the 
> crazyness of laws like this and the world in general* %-)
> --
> Heiko Haller
> Institut AIFB, Uni Karlsruhe (TH)
> http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/hha/
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