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Copyright infringement is generally a civil matter. That means someone has to bother to sue you before there are legal consequences. They're betting that publis
by sp332 7y ago
Copyright infringement is generally a civil matter. That means someone has to bother to sue you before there are legal consequences. They're betting that publishers won't take the PR hit of suing a non-profit providing a public service during an emergency. And since the opt-out is so easy, the amount of damages someone could claim are probably pretty darn small.
- wolco 7y agoUnless you own a domain and they just take it away. Now you get to sue them.
- sp332 7y agoLate edit: they're really going out of their way to remove authors who don't want to be included. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1244793574073524229 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1244793574073524229
- geofft 7y agoI'm a little worried that "I'd like to work with them" isn't "I'd like to remove them proactively." This reads to me like a request for crowd-sourced snitch-tagging.
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- sp332 7y agoLate update, but they're putting in more effort to make sure authors don't get abuse. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1247612061732999172 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1247612061732999172