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Really clever response to clearly decouple the copyright issue from the freedom of speech issue. I'm curious to see how the university will react to this.
by gklitt 13y ago
Really clever response to clearly decouple the copyright issue from the freedom of speech issue. I'm curious to see how the university will react to this.
- smtddr 13y agoThe data will stop being presented in a form that's easily parsed. Instead, it'll be in PDFs rather than within text+HTML that this guy's extension can move around. (And the counter to this is a server somewhere that the extension can send the PDF to, that runs pdftotext on linux... so he should prepare for that ...or just prepare to be expelled).
- pmorici 13y agoWith the rise of javascript in the browser to a first world programming language it's hard to imagine anything they could do that would put the information out of reach.
- csense 13y agoThere's an early xkcd with an answer for that: http://xkcd.com/129/ http://xkcd.com/129/
- ihsw 13y ago> The data will stop being presented in a form that's easily parsed. Instead, it'll be in PDFs rather than within text+HTML that this guy's extension can move around. Five years from now this kind of information will be encrypted using EME modules, in fact this whole Yale saga would've been a non-issue from the start had EME been well established.