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> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits circumventing an effective technological means of control that restricts access to a copyrighted work. I guess that would apply here. It doesn't if you're not in the US.
Kim Dotcom believed so too, didn't fare too well.
> Freedom of information is an essential pillar of democracy
However, this reads like this tool saves democracy by letting you bypass a crappy pay wall on a site you visit once a year, and that whoever wants to get paid for their published content online is an enemy of democracy.
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Lovely, the Google classic "ban the world" approach -- I've been desperately trying to move my client off of vercel, this might just be the gasoline.
I followed this drama on Twitter. The author was breaking the terms of service and creating DMCA support burden for Vercel. They had proactively been in touch with him a few times to reach a solution. I think it’s quite reasonable that they blocked the account rather than the project. You wouldn’t have got that level of service from big tech.
Just because it's their right to conduct this way, doesn't mean it's not everyone elses exactly equal right to judge that and avoid.
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Kim Dotcom believed so too, didn't fare too well.
Megaupload did business in the US, they had a lot of servers in the US. IIRC that was the basis for his arrest: the crime took place on US territory.
It seemed to me like 12ft.io was useful for a couple of months, but then stopped being useful as they agreed to blacklist more and more URLs. I thought everybody switched to archive.is, which (so far) works 100% of the time, even if it is sometimes a pain in the butt.
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There's a huge need for subscription bundles. I'd gladly pay $20/mo for access to a bunch of big names, even if I'm limited to like 60 articles per month combined across those sources. Instead I just don't pay anyone, turn back when I encounter a paywall and look for someone's summary if I'm really interested.
Isn’t that the value-prop of Apple News?
I'd rather have a system that was just a cross-website web account.
It seemed to me like 12ft.io was useful for a couple of months, but then stopped being useful as they agreed to blacklist more and more URLs. I thought everybody switched to archive.is, which (so far) works 100% of the time, even if it is sometimes a pain in the butt.
Is there an open source version of archive.is?
First of all congrats on the project and thank you for open sourcing it. > Freedom of information is an essential pillar of democracy However, this reads like this tool saves democracy by letting you bypass a crappy pay wall on a site you visit once a year, and that whoever wants to get paid for their published content online is an enemy of democracy.