On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:20 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
throwing a tantrum because WMF won't give him 24TB of storage for a project that has legal questionablity
If society depended on lawyers for determining the parameters of their inverted indices, you would all be using WAIS for the last five years of corporate press releases for your reference needs.
The issue here is not merely a legal one -- there's a philosophical/mission question as well. Personally, I very much support the idea of doing something, somewhere, to archive links used as references. But should that be hosted (in a big way) on Wikimedia servers?
We recently had an extensive deliberation about whether to host non-free content (in that case, video formats) on Wikimedia servers, and the resulting decision was a strong consensus against doing so. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video
So at the very least, the contention that we should consider this project (to host copyrighted content on Wikimedia servers) an *obvious* "yes" is wrong. From what I'm seeing here, Marc's insistence on a more formal proposal, and a deliberative process of some kind to evaluate it, is absolutely correct.
Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]