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I'll point out that a bajillion people have had their content mirrored on marc.info without necessarily realizing it was happening. I think that's a little diff

I'll point out that a bajillion people have had their content mirrored on marc.info without necessarily realizing it was happening. I think that's a little different, but also not so different.

saurik 4y ago
It is interesting to compare that situation. FWIW, I consider it much more than merely "a little" different, but I can also see how there are some critical similarities. To me, the big difference stems from the difference in presentation and purpose: I can't imagine many people search for the real mailing list, finds an archive on marc.info, and then subscribes to that instead of the real mailing list. It is similar to how I do not personally mind at all that web.archive.org mirrors my website at https://web.archive.org/https://www.saurik.com/ https://web.archive.org/https://www.saurik.com/ with giant banners at the top showing "this is the internet archive"; but, if someone merely created a live mirror of my website at https://www.saurik2.com/ https://www.saurik2.com/, I'd be pretty pissed. Put differently, for me, the core problem is one of trademarks... I have strongly mixed opinions on the value of copyright, but I am a firm believer in the purpose of trademarks (even if the specific laws I always have some issue with).