On 30/06/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Anyway this is the wrong direction to be heading.
There are countless
ways we can massively reduce the addition of good-faith copyright
violations, by restricting uploads to registered users etc etc etc.
Education, education, education. But with less Blairite incompetence
and more up-front, honest, "look dude, we can't accept this, and
here's why".
Focussing on the few bad eggs who deliberately
upload copyrighted
images is wasting our time...
Well, it's not a waste of our time to stop them. Frequent, persistent
uploading of copyright infringing material is blockable, no? If it's
not, then why the hell not?
Rob Church
Hoi,
I would not be surprised that a fair percentage of dubious content comes
from a group of people who persist in their habit of seeing everything
as fair game. Blocking these people after the appropriate first steps
leading up to it makes sense, it would make better sense if this were
not only true for Commons but also for their "home" project. This is
where they would really feel the pain of withdrawal.
In a similar way, people who troll on other projects should at some
stage feel the pain in their own back yard.
Thanks,
GerardM