Techdirt Podcast Episode 333: Walled Culture
from the story-of-copyright dept
One of the oldest and most important topics on Techdirt is copyright, and the many problems with the law both here and abroad. One of the best voices on the subject, here and in many other publications, is Glyn Moody, who recently released his book Walled Culture, that goes through the history of how legacy copyright industries have tried to harm the internet and gain ever greater control over the work of artists and creators. It’s available as a free e-book under a Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication, and today Glyn joins the podcast to discuss the book and the long, often-sad story of copyright law around the world.
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Comments on “Techdirt Podcast Episode 333: Walled Culture”
I suppose it’s somehow appropriate that this link is walled off behind a “robot challange screen”, though it’s somewhat baffling that the author would wish to prevent “robots” (or sufficiently robotic humans, apparently) from learning about the book. I don’t much feel like enabling cookies and solving a CAPTCHA to see what this is about.
Re: Don't worry.
I uploaded on the Internet Archive (though considering the unjust and potentially fatal lawsuits against it, you better get it while you can!). When it’s fully realized on the site, I’ll send you the link.
Re: UPDATE:
Here it is: https://archive.org/details/walled-culture
There’s no way to read it in the browser yet (as it hasn’t been fully converted yet), but you could download it in PDF, EPUB, or MOBI format–all of which I have uploaded.
Re: Re: Internet Archive availability
The book was already available on the Interent Archive https://archive.org/details/walled-culture-the-book
There is no captcha implemented by us on the walled culture website.
There is a cookie warning because we comply with EU GDPR rules and you can decline all cookies without a problem.
Hope this helps
Re: Re: Re:
It doesn’t matter who it’s implemented by. The page I get redirected to is on the domain, with a valid Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate—meaning it’s either being done by an (unidentified) authorized party, or you’ve got a big security problem.
Try viewing the site with Tor Browser (download a TAILS virtual machine if you don’t want to install anything). “Please complete the captcha below to prove you’re a human and proceed to the page you’re trying to reach. … This page requires cookies to be enabled in your browser settings. Please check this setting and enable cookies (if disabled). sid:343”
Re: Re: Re:2 Tor
You are absolutely right. The feature is sadly implemented by our hoster and ouf gentle begging dit not trigger it into disabling it. Our apologies for the inconvenience and hopefully the Internet archive links did the trick.
Re: Re: Re:3
If your hosting company was doing this without you asking, and without even telling you, I think it’s time to find a new hosting company. Non-anonymous browsing should really be on its way out, for many reasons. Luckily, the Internet Archive does seem to support anonymity—their links always seem to work (in the absence of copyright takedowns).