On 04/05/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Find a nice Dutch webhost? (Which given this garbage, might not be a terrible idea anyway?)
Nope: just say "Here's an encyclopedic article. They're trying to suppress this. Have a look at them SUPPRESSING a NUMBER." Instant press disaster. Same reason the RIAA backed down from suing Ed Felten.
We may get crappy press about stupid vandalism to living bios, but that's completely irrelevant to this PR battle. on one side you have this (ultimately) nerdy and noble Internet encyclopedia that A THIRD OF ALL AMERICANS USE DAILY, not to mention *every* journalist I've spoken to about Wikipedia in the last year ... and on the other, you have widely despised thugs with money, trying to SUPPRESS a NUMBER.
The people posting to this list with the apparent impression that a DMCA notice sent to Wikimedia about the key would cause the site to be switched off an hour later or sent broke ... are being ridiculous. Completely and utterly clueless about how these things work in practice. If you feel I'm being unfair to you in saying that, please detail your experience, 'cos I bet I have way more than you do.
- d.