On 14/11/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:

Commons exists to be a repository for free culture *and* to serve as an inter-wiki storage medium for *free* media. it is not a place to dump stuff, nor is it a place which exists independently of other wikis. Copyright violations are not a minor or trivial problem. They are a serious problem, for which we are obligated to act when they are properly brought to our attention. This is all nothing new. If there are Wikimedians who are advocating housing copyrighted media in Commons, speak up now, because we need to get clear on why that is not cool immediately.

There isn't anyone advocating that; this discussion started with a Commons admin threatening to block all es:wp users from Commons to stop copyvios from es:wp, because the Commons admins can't keep up, evidently because their admin process is strict enough that pretty much no-one even bothers trying.

- d.