[Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

[Fred Bauder]

I don't get it. I was able to use a Wikipedia link to find a place to
download The Searchers, a John Ford film starring John Wayne in about 30
seconds. How is that not theft that we are facilitating?

Fred


> Hi there,
> two months after the "smoking cannabis" controversy, the Russian
> Wikipedia is in trouble again, this time over an anti-piracy legislation
> that will come into force on August 1 and which might result in
> Wikipedia as a whole -- not just a few articles -- being blacklisted in
> the country.
>
> The Russian parliament introduced anti-drug and anti-child pornography
> legislation last year, and it's already successfully used to censor
> encyclopaedic articles, so I guess it's time for more radical steps now;
> the new law might lead to banning websites that just /link/ to sites
> which hold content copyrighted by others.
>
> RIA Novosti has more information on the subject:
> <http://en.ria.ru/russia/20130709/182150416/Russian-Wikipedia-Faces-Ban-Due-to-Anti-Piracy-Law--Director.html>
>
> I'm CC-ing the advocacy advisors mailing list because this lies within
> their area of expertise; when responding to this e-mail, please make
> sure to include both lists.
>
> 	-- Tomasz
>
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