[Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

[Thomas Morton]

On 4 October 2011 14:03, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> An official statement will be published in Foundation-l.
>
> The question is that the server are in USA, but for the penal law it's
> sufficient to edit from the Italian country.
>
> I am in a special situation because I live in Switzerland and I
> publish in USA servers, but for the main numbers of Italian editors
> the question is not so easy.


It's an interesting (and very idiotic) new law for sure.

>From my latter reading it quite clear distinguishes that the  *owner* or
*webmaster* is liable.

As with a lot of laws/internet stuff it kind of falls apart when faced with
something like a Wiki. But I doubt this is worth being too concerned about.

Campaign against it certainly, point out how problematic it becomes. But
don't lose sleep :)

Tom