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The Return of Eric Weisstein's World Of Mathematics

Posted by timothy on from the addition-trumps-division dept.

Many readers (like this Anonymous Coward) have written with the good news that "Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, a free, online encyclopedia of mathematics was taken off the web thanks to a lawsuit by CRC Publishing. After much legal wrangling, it returns today stronger than ever. See it rise from the ashes at http://mathworld.wolfram.com."

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  1. Why is this under "Your rights online" ? by tmark · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't understand this classification at all. Why is this a story about 'my' rights ? I don't see how 'my' rights or 'your' rights were infringed upon when the site was shut down - while it is a nice resource, the "rights" moniker seems to imply some entitlement to this website. If someone shut down Britannica - say due to copyright issues - I certainly wouldn't be complaining about violation of 'my' rights. And I don't see any mention of access to and availability of arbitrary websites in the Constitution.

    Surely we are not entitled to this website, after all, are we ??