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mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as joint and several liability. let the dc sue them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't intend to pursue some dubious "start-up" in canada on the strength of the declarations of some otherwise proven liar / confused internet person.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a sad state of affairs for actual providers. they're stuck in the middle. can't really pay good lawyers, can't really exactly judge when customer is going to turn around and bitchslap them with a ten ton hammer...
mircea_popescu: if you have any experience with contemporary us law, this should be a familiar pattern
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dmca is EXACTLY and specifically drawn so large players can squash annoyances, but also minor players trying to do the same get totally raped.
mircea_popescu: oh, i'm not suing some bankruipt derps in canada, who cares about them.
mircea_popescu: wait until you read into the statutory damages for dmca fraud.
mircea_popescu: internet brigading is a great way to deal with nobodies, but you run the risk of stepping on the tail of someone who is actually powerful, on occasion, at which point the whole thing backfires.
mircea_popescu: as a warning for later muppets on the score of "fuck with people you don't know"
mircea_popescu: and so ima sue them for all they got and move the blog.
mircea_popescu: today the dc nulled that ip, which brings them into liability over the matter, as the complaint is clearly spurious,
mircea_popescu: waited ten days, reinstated the content, forgot all about it.
mircea_popescu: some dude claiming to be "from fetlife" made a proper dmca notification, which i counter-notified
mircea_popescu: i pointed out to the dc that if it abuses dmca notice process in this way it'll end up liable, and linked them to caselaw.
mircea_popescu: aite. so basically, i saw something, said something. fetlife misjudged itself, and sent a spurious "trademark infringement" claim to the dc.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 so you're entirely foreign to the bitcoin space, then ?
mircea_popescu: im not trying to accomplish anything. hm... what exactly is your interest in this thing ?
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 i ended up making a profile at some point. read some "build from the ground up with security in mind" verbiage from the baku character, sounded exactly like the bitcoin scammer broken record.
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe ed is actually a better wiki than wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 actually, they are picking a fight with me. i generally end fights.
mircea_popescu: you seriously believe that if you split up the value wikipedia added to human society over the years, in "making experts laugh" and "everything else", the 2nd bit would be anything even remotely comparable to the 1st ?
mircea_popescu: this is a rube goldberg cube. entertaining, for us. wasteful, for the random derp/.
mircea_popescu: i happen to know what things are, having had the good fortune to exist before wikipedia did.
mircea_popescu: no, iut's a tool for laymen to bolt down their ignorance in such a way that they'll never ever become good, at anything.
mircea_popescu: but it packages it with a very dangerous false sense of competence.
mircea_popescu: it's a starting point for misunderstanding, which wouldn't be a big deal
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 internet is large, and mostly inhabited by the clueless.
mircea_popescu: also, every encyclopedia consists of original research of its editors
mircea_popescu: Chillum everything even remotely worth reading is out of the scope of a wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: presenting rank ignorance as, rather than humiliatory, a sort of "problem". it's no problem.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 derps ennumerated their db rather than hashing it.
mircea_popescu: "[W]hen a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong." << in romanian this is known as "a waiter at one of these places where university professors gather can actually soak up a lot, often enough to pass himself for one"
mircea_popescu: and i guess ima hammer the shit out of fetlife now, anyway.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 nah, inept dc caved over a fraudulent dmca notice. will be skinning them for it, next week.
mircea_popescu: we had a guy, long ago, that cared. it is to his memory that i dedicate that line.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, these ignoramuses have branded the memory hole effect too ?
mircea_popescu: the reason is that... as decimation points out... nobody gives a shit about wikipedia
mircea_popescu: bitcoin forum is dedicated to making "free bitcoin content" as well.
mircea_popescu: Chillum last i saw the begging campaign, it was a very pointed "sucks we can't afford 1/100000000 of what google can"
mircea_popescu: i object to the spurious pretense that wikipedia is anyuthing but myspace on white
mircea_popescu: whereas wikipedia whines about not having 5k to pay for servers, and nurtures inferiority complexes @ google and everyone else.
mircea_popescu: which is why d'alembert's is d'alembert's, and why it turned europe upside down
mircea_popescu: this is what an encyclopedia is. not a piling of "information", as the acultural imagine.
mircea_popescu: an encyclopedia, fundamentally, imposes a political hierarchy upon the world, and that of a known and verifiable pedigree.
mircea_popescu: wikipedia is not "pretty good by the standards of any encyclopedia", it is "pretty good by the standards of any encyclopedia that were not an encyclopedia but a wikipedia instead"
mircea_popescu: Chillum again, that an elephant which counts to three is pretty great as far as elephants go does not make this a mathematical discussion.