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

[Fred Bauder]

> On 10 July 2013 12:09, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
>> On 07/09/2013 11:36 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>>> How
>>> is deliberate copyright infringement is not theft?
>
>> My previous message helpfully contained the definition of theft from
>> Canada's criminal code, which I expect is very near that of most or all
>> common law jurisdiction, at least.  If you had paid attention, you'd
>> have noticed that copyright violation doesn't even vaguely qualify.
>
>
> Indeed. Fred, at this point you're just insisting on derailing an
> important discussion.
>
> Now then. How do we deal with the problem at hand? (Which only a fool
> would think actually had anything to do with copyright concerns.)
>
>
> - d.

We could emphasize the illegitimate goals that Putin has in suppressing
information about his regime, but that seems unlikely to influence him or
his supporters. I guess the right of the Russian people to accurate
information should be emphasized.

Fred