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Wendy Seltzer
Personal blog · wendy.seltzer.org/blogpolitics
Wendy Seltzer writes Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags, a personal blog at wendy.seltzer.org about politics. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wendy Seltzer's blog posts on copyright and internet law, such as her DMCA takedown of an NFL video, SOPA and DNS mirroring, and a critique of Windows Vista.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Might have more to do with criminal liability due to certain countries straight up banning the symbol, like Germany [0]. In addition to that, the German law does hold operators of websites liable for any law-breaking comments/posts/whatever made by users of the site [1]. If somebody spreads something illegal on your comments/forums/whatever, and you fail to delete it, the German state will hold you, as the operator…
Comment linking /blog/archives/2007/06/11/meinprofde_a_for_german_decision_on_website_liability.html
on “Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment”Submitted Draft: Software Patents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUnder SOPA, a name server that accurately mirrors the zones for that domain is illegal . http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2011/12/15/stopping-s...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2011/12/15/stopping-sopas-anti-circumvention.html
on “Reddit admin: "If SOPA passes it would almost certainly mean the end of reddit"”Yeah, like when the NFL DMCA'd Wendy Seltzer's YT video of the NFL's copyright notice plus a short clip of a Super Bowl® ^W^W Sports Championship kickoff. http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/dmca-nfl
Comment linking /blog/dmca-nfl
on “Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig”Vista Kicks Your Ass... 1. Self-limiting software 2. Vanishing functionality through invalidation 3. Removal of media capabilities 4. Problem-solving prohibited 5. Limited mobility 6. One transfer only 7. Stealth Installs with Windows Update turned OFF... 8. Restrictions on your rights to use MPEG-4 video 9. Windows Update file deletions of 3rd party software Reference: http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/10…
Comment linking /blog/archives/2006/10/19/forbidding_vistas_windows_licensing_disserves_the_user.html
on “Vista Kicks Ass”