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A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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Mercenaries Have No Conscience

Fantasy book critic is back on line after being taken down by 'link busters' who mistook it for a pirate site. Author says the automated enforcement tools that pixy uses will always generate false positives. The people who operate those tools have no incentive to look too closely at the accusations, he writes. It could get much, much worse. Rights holder groups are backing a copyright office plan to make this kind of robo signing into law.

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