Re:US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub
by analognoise on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:30PM
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Careful with this. Having a number of laws people ignore can lead to situations where all of a sudden the existing power structure starts to enforce them arbitrarily (usually against political opponents and/or an 'out' grou p).
Re:US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub
by jstarfish on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:30PM
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USC 2257 compliance comes to mind. With that on the books, a nebulous definition of what it means to be compliant and no precedent for interpretation, I'd hate to be in the adult industry when any administration decides to start enforcing it.
Re:US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub
by dhimes on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:59PM
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In case anybody else doesn't recognize this, it's the law stating that porn producers must maintain proof-of-age documentation of their performers (at least that's what I think it means). Something like that anyway.
Re:US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub
by stanfordkid on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:26PM
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This exactly. The law is a lot like the formal description of an algorithm that processes data. The courts and lawyers are the implementation, and the way in which people behave is the data being fed into the implementation. Overload even a good implementation and it will probably crash.
Instead, just start breaking laws that are corrupt, like copyrite laws, and eventually they will be unenforceable.
Copyright laws are already mostly unenforceable against individuals.
Laws only work because society mostly follows them. The ones that people DON'T follow, may as well not even exist.