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The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu)
An anonymous reader writes: Julia Reda, a member of the European parliament, is sounding the alarm on new copyright legislation under development. She says the European Commission is considering copyright protection for hyperlinking. Reda says, "This idea flies in the face of both existing interpretation and spirit of the law as well as common sense. Each weblink would become a legal landmine and would allow press publishers to hold every single actor on the Internet liable." Under this scheme, simply linking to copyrighted material would be legally considered "providing access," and thus require explicit permission of the rightsholder. Reda warns that it could lead to legal expenses for anyone who shares links (read: everybody), and ultimately the fragmentation of the internet.
http://www.nextbigwhat.com/did... Some govt agencies in India adopted this practice way back in 2011
I'd read TFA, but I didn't want to do anything illegal by clicking the link.
::Hyperlink deleted due to violation of EU link sharing regulation::
This doesn't originate with politicians, it comes from corporate lobbyists for publishers, newspapers, etc. Those corporations hold a lot of power in Europe and they are seeing their business models and fortunes destroyed by the Internet. And since politicians in Europe are highly dependent on the goodwill of these publishers (not having a lot of other channels for reaching voters), they respond to this kind of pressure.
Lemme take a shot at this one:
Maps are illegal - they provide access to the locations of private land. We should ask every landowner if they want to appear on a map.
e.g. I can't tell you where the coffee shop is, because that would be providing access. Lemme ask the owner of the shop first. I'm sure he'll be okay with you knowing but I should check.
We're no longer allowed to talk about things that are illegal? This is the censorship of knowledge.
It's called the law of the World Wide Web, and it comes down to us from the writings of the global prophet Tim.
The actual wording of the law is too technical for mere mortals, being as it is written in ancient C code found on an artifact we think was called a hard drive dug up from the buried ruins of a cyclotron in what was once Switzerland.
But the law can be paraphrased as:
If you deposit your writings or your pictures on an HTTP or HTTPS server without access control
- and thus allow your work to be served,
(that is freely transferred by the standard world wide web protocols)
to any of the computers attached to the great public Internet,
- then you implicitly have created a holy URL by which your work can be accessed and copied,
- and should you also allow the URL itself to be discovered over the Internet by the use of standard world wide web protocols,
- THEN it is the law that:
- any person or machine is allowed
(as inherently enabled and implied by the fundamental nature of the technology as Tim intended it)
- to republish that URL on any writings that they also cause to be served by the same standard protocols.
- and to copy and read or view the writings or pictures that you made freely available by your action of publishing it on the World Wide Web.
Thus is created the fundamental Web network nature of creation that we know as the World Wide Web.
This is the first law of the Holy Interwebs. Bookmark it and do not lose it.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Only when you intentionally ignore parts of what it says there.
1 Kings 7:23:
On first glance, that looks like "pi is exactly 3!", but first glances are nearly always wrong. This is no different. There are two details to consider.
First, there's the first part of verse 26:
A handbreadth is about 7.4cm. Thus, it raises questions about where the measurements "from brim to brim" are being taken. Is this outside diameter, inside diameter, or some (mostly useless) combination of the two? The Bible is not specific about that.
Then there's the fact that it states that this measurement is "from brim to brim". A brim is either an upper rim of a liquid container, as in this case, or a protruding lower edge of a hat. Now think about every decorative cup or bowl you've ever seen. Is the brim wider than the main container? You bet it is. So the main container is 30 cubits in circumference, but the brim diameter is much wider, at 10 cubits.
So between the non-specific statements of measurement and the very likely difference between the measurements of the main body of the vessel and the top edge of the vessel, this "pi is 3 because the Bible says so" malarkey is, well, malarkey.
TL;DR: Pi is not 3 and the Bible does not say that it is.
The term "hyperlink" was coined in 1965 (or possibly 1964) by Ted Nelson at the start of Project Xanadu. So, no. It's not a European invention. It was promoted by Tim heavily. Tim has some responsibility in popularizing it, I would agree.
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