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I find amusement in how the three big "knowledge for all" organizations are perfectly distributed along the D&D alignment 'law' axis (taken literally): - Wikim
by mgdlbp 4y ago
I find amusement in how the three big "knowledge for all" organizations are perfectly distributed along the D&D alignment 'law' axis (taken literally):
- Wikimedia (“a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”): lawful – religious copyright law adherence, thorough fair use rationales; proactively removes Het Achterhuis from Wikisource over DMCA "actual knowledge" of it being copyrighted in the US through an obscure series of laws[1]
- Internet Archive (“Universal Access to All Knowledge”): neutral – gets archival exemption for bypassing copy protection added to the DMCA;[2][3] making archived items publicly available lies in a grey area
- Sci-Hub (“free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge”): chaotic – just pirate all the paywalled articles
[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-removal https://diff.wikimedia.org/2016/02/10/anne-frank-diary-remov...
[2] https://archive.org/about/dmca.php https://archive.org/about/dmca.php
[3] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/07/27/2010-18339/exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright-protection-systems-for-access-control https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/07/27/2010-18...
- _emacsomancer_ 4y agoPresumably in fact Lawful Good, Neutral Good, and Chaotic Good, respectively.