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Wen<p>Blackmail and the Trump administration</p><p>The USA has raised the Jolly Roger higher up it's mast.</p><p>One of the City’s so-called magic circle law firms is the latest to strike a deal to provide pro bono legal services to the White House.</p><p><a href="http://archive.today/2025.04.14-180028/https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/uk-law-firm-orders-team-not-to-comment-on-trump-5552ph3pd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.today/2025.04.14-18002</span><span class="invisible">8/https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/uk-law-firm-orders-team-not-to-comment-on-trump-5552ph3pd</span></a></p><p>A&amp;O Shearman had agreed to the arrangement in exchange for regulators dropping investigations into the firm’s diversity practices. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Piracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Piracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Blackmail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackmail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RogueState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RogueState</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Overeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Overeach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Interference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Interference</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BoycottUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoycottUSA</span></a></p>
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Max Resing

Received an email by the #NANOG mailing list in which they raise a pretty concerning thing: Apparently, #Spain started to intercept or nullroute certain IP addresses of #CDN providers. The intent is to fight #piracy during #football matches.

Do the people who pass the list of IP addresses even understand the significance of blocking a bunch of #CDN networks of various providers? Seriously?! It #censors access to tens of thousands of legitimate #websites which is blatantly accepted as a #collateral to help out some shady sports association in their #copyright?

How much shadier can a decision be? Since this is a thing, maybe they can think about taking down entire regions in Spain the next football match?

The amount of collateral damage in the name of copyright is ridiculous. The #EuropeanUnion really has to step-up their game in addressing those concerning developments. I read about multiple such blatant decisions so far. Eyeing at you, #Quad9 and #Sony...

#copyrightinfringement#LaLiga#digitalsovereignty
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

blenderdumbass . orgThe Copyright Mentality
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.

Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.

The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.

These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/cong

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea.More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech...
#USA#Censorship#FreedomOfSpeech
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PrivacyDigest

Why Italy’s #Piracy Shield risks moving from tiresome digital farce to serious national tragedy – Walled Culture

#Blocklists are drawn up by #copyright companies, without any review, or the possibility of any objections, and those blocks must be enforced within 30 minutes. Needless to say, such a ham-fisted and biased approach to copyright infringement is already producing some horrendous blunders

walledculture.org/why-italys-p

walledculture.orgWhy Italy’s Piracy Shield risks moving from tiresome digital farce to serious national tragedy
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

blenderdumbass . orgThe Copyright Mentality
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#copyright#endCopyright#copyleft
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

blenderdumbass . orgThe Copyright Mentality
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alecm

A nuanced “Global South” take by @nwbrownboi re: LibGen, Copyright & AI + contrast from @greg_jenner & @prof_alice_roberts (all Threads) HT @dsearls

Quoted with links & refs to an Atlantic article; punch quote:

Where was this outrage when students & researchers in the Global South needed these books to study, work, and build a future? AI isn’t the first thing to challenge your control over knowledge. It’s just the first time you’ve noticed.

Quoth Shrey:

OK I am about to drop a really hot, nuanced take on Meta torrenting LibGen. I recognise this is a sensitive subject and to be clear – I dont approve of the torrenting. But there is a much broader point about LibGen that you – yes, you, a Western reader are not seeing. I ask you to read the rest of this in good faith. (1/6)

LibGen wasnt built for piracy – it was built for access. Created in 2008 (17 years ago, long before AI) by Russian scientists, it served students & researchers in India, Africa, Iran – places where Western paywalls kept knowledge locked away. You shouldnt need a shadow library to learn. But in these places – you did. And now, the same archive is fueling AI models that Westerners suddenly find very concerning. (2/6)

LibGen was never about theft it was about survival. It gave access to knowledge that academia locked away. But now that AI companies scraped it? Now its a crisis? Where was this outrage when students & researchers in the Global South needed these books to study, work, and build a future? AI isnt the first thing to challenge your control over knowledge. Its just the first time youve noticed. (3/6)

For decades, Western publishers profited off knowledge hoarding. Now AI is absorbing books, and suddenly the institutions that never cared about access are crying theft. The gatekeepers are losing power, but that doesnt mean the people are winning. You ignored the fight over open knowledge – until AI came for your books. (4/6)

LibGen shattered paywalls. AI could be the next great knowledge revolutionor the final enclosure. That choice isnt up to publishers anymore. But it could be up to you. Will you demand open-source AI, knowledge for all? Or will you only fight for access after its been locked away from you, too? (5/6)

The problem isnt AI – its who controls it. AI could be an open-source library, crediting & compensating authors, making knowledge truly accessible instead of locked in corporate models. (Some models are working on citations.) But that requires breaking the cycle of extraction. Thats not a fantasy – its just a choice we havent made yet. AI could be another gatekeeper, or it could be a bridge to something better. I know which one I want. (6/6)

…and Greg Jenner:

So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AICopyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it. And the charming irony that I can only spread the word about it on Meta! The article is in The Atlantic

…and Prof Roberts:

Blimey. Looks like pretty much ALL of my books have been pirated by LibGen – the place that’s been scraped by generative AI developers. Real, human authors – and copyright law! – being flung into the jaws of this technological behemoth. Article in the Atlantic (thanks …)

I am delighted to see the pros-and-cons debates of copyright and of people making money from content rather than because of content (HT Doc Searls) – all being played-out again this decade as they were in the early days of blogging.

To me, this discourse is a sign of both harsh reality and gradual raising of awareness.

ps: I still think the gold standard here is the late Professor Ross Anderson who arranged with his publisher to permit him to make his books available for free download on his home page, a few years after publication of each edition.

pps: I wish I had a Threads unroller.

The Atlantic · The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books ProblemBy Alex Reisner
#ai#becauseEffect#copyright
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