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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by leephillips on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:38PM (#17911041)
Nearly 2000 words on how I can police their website for them? No, thanks. If they took this problem seriously they would build a system to catch copy-paste before it went live on their site.
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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by afandian on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:15PM (#17911442)
There is no 'them'. The Wikipedia community comprises everyone who wants to participate. WMF is small in comparison.
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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by raverbashing on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:45PM (#17911692)
Sure, the magical internet gnomes can know what every book in the world contains and detect copy paste like that.

I would expect to read such an uninformed comment on Fox News comment section.

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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by fasafsafsf on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:47PM (#17911125)
I think they already have such systems via bots, but they don't block or undo things automatically because I assume it's hard to know programmatically the licence of things that are posted on the Internet.
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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by mike22223333 on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:49PM (#17911146)
It it is hard, that they should not run wikipedia.
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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by balp on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:49PM (#17914904)
Kinda hard like the lawers are still after years trying to figure out the issue between Oracle and Google, Apple and Samsung... It's a really hard legal issue, expecting it to be easy for a computer to solve. It's naive.
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Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibran... by fasafsafsf on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:54PM (#17911212)
That is crazy. Even systems like ContentID are full of flaws.
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