2008/12/8 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
On the radio interview: I thought David sounded unfair, espousing some unlikely conspiracy theories suggesting that the IWF chose Wikipedia for any other reason than the fact that some disgruntled Wikipedian submitted it to their tip box a few days ago.
The idea that they've blocked Wikipedia but not Amazon because Amazon has more lawyers sounds pretty plausible to me (what else could they mean by "pragmatic"?).
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In the interview, Sarah Robertson said "as I understand it, the only report we received of this content as of Friday was the content on Wikipedia."
I'll assume stupidity rather than malice. "Pragmatic" could mean anything.
Yeah, but if I were blocking a webpage I would read the webpage first. The article gives all the information someone would need to find out that the image is available elsewhere.
If they wanted this to be a test case, why would they have handled it so ineptly?
Because they're inept?