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Is this sensationalized? A single bullet-point makes me nervous. All of those together makes me feel smothered...
by thejaredhooper 11y ago
Is this sensationalized? A single bullet-point makes me nervous. All of those together makes me feel smothered...
- walterbell 11y agoIt's a roundup of previous blog posts. You can click through each bullet point for the original blog post with more detail.
- PeCaN 11y agoI've noticed the EFF has a tendency to exaggerate slightly, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's partly sensationalized. Even so, it's rather disconcerting.
- Umn44 11y agoWell considering what you've lost, I don't think you're really in a position to claim EFF is exaggerating considering the whole of copyright law has been corrupted and the industry has gotten its way every time over the last 200 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/...
- pyre 11y agoIt's probably more along the lines of, "the law could be interpreted this way, and you might find yourself on the wrong side of a court case where a hotshot government prosecutor is trying to make a name for him- or herself by pushing the boundaries of how the law can be interpreted." For example, the case where the US government tried to say that breaking a website's ToS was "unauthorized access of a website" and ran afoul of anti-hacking laws.