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Stephen Downes

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You know, I hadn't thought of it this way. My work is fairly widely read, and it's certainly replicated (not always with attribution) in journals and books produced by the largest and most prominent publishers. Now section 514 would "shield holders of copyrighted works from liability for their attempts to disable, interfere with, block, divert, or otherwise impair the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or reproduction of [their] copyrighted work." OK, then. As a holder of copyright material, I now have a license to hack and disable their sites on the suspicion that they might be stealing my stuff. The power...

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