The reason most people think that being an employee is better than a freelancer/contractor/etc is because of all of the rights and benefits that come from your employment. Ditto with part time vs full time employees.
If these rights were instead extended to freelancers, and things like health insurance and such weren't tied to your employer, there wouldn't be the concern that employers are avoiding employees to avoid the extra costs.
I mean, there was no way any appreciable portion of the content they are banning would be able to be downloaded in the timeframe, and any real attempt would be pretty likely to look abusive or just plain run them out of capacity.
And one bot looks like any other bot to the automated systems.
Given the random collateral damage as Russia hunted Telegram across AWS and GCP, there's clearly some level of risk in allowing this. Its one thing if using GCP was putting Google's properties at risk, they could choose to make that trade-off, but if apps start using random other domains hosted by GCP or AWS, risking those other companies, that doesn't seem like something a hosting provider would want to allow.
And that's before you start pondering what other kinds of shenanigans can occur.
(I work for Google but don't know any specifics on why this decision was made)
I don't have any particular insight into why Google listed them originally, but if you dump a huge trove of email anywhere, there's a good chance it contains some virus files, if the original receivers didn't have great av protection.
The site report still says there are specific bad pages, but the overall site isn't listed anymore.
My experience with ebooks is that its unlikely the publisher even looked at the resulting book in any detail.
I've seen a much higher incidence of errors in ebooks, and many cases where markers denoting end of chapter or some sort of change of context are completely absent, making for some pretty confusing changes of context that you don't get until halfway through the paragraph.
But yes, real effort to format a work for a new medium is something I would pay for... but many ebooks are more expensive than the paperback I already own. I doubt the effort put in to the new format is more than the original.
Fixing the wrong problem
The reason most people think that being an employee is better than a freelancer/contractor/etc is because of all of the rights and benefits that come from your employment. Ditto with part time vs full time employees.
If these rights were instead extended to freelancers, and things like health insurance and such weren't tied to your employer, there wouldn't be the concern that employers are avoiding employees to avoid the extra costs.
More likely it looked like a bot with high traffic
I mean, there was no way any appreciable portion of the content they are banning would be able to be downloaded in the timeframe, and any real attempt would be pretty likely to look abusive or just plain run them out of capacity.
And one bot looks like any other bot to the automated systems.
Open source crypto software?
Isn't this basically the same thing the government did with preventing publishing and disseminating of crypto software?
I don't recall how that eventually worked out, but it seems really similar.
Or maybe the guns at issue here aren't powerful enough to be covered by the export controls.
No reason?
Given the random collateral damage as Russia hunted Telegram across AWS and GCP, there's clearly some level of risk in allowing this. Its one thing if using GCP was putting Google's properties at risk, they could choose to make that trade-off, but if apps start using random other domains hosted by GCP or AWS, risking those other companies, that doesn't seem like something a hosting provider would want to allow.
And that's before you start pondering what other kinds of shenanigans can occur.
(I work for Google but don't know any specifics on why this decision was made)
Not that unlikely
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12146920
I don't have any particular insight into why Google listed them originally, but if you dump a huge trove of email anywhere, there's a good chance it contains some virus files, if the original receivers didn't have great av protection.
The site report still says there are specific bad pages, but the overall site isn't listed anymore.
No conspiracy necessary.
Re: enhanced versions
My experience with ebooks is that its unlikely the publisher even looked at the resulting book in any detail.
I've seen a much higher incidence of errors in ebooks, and many cases where markers denoting end of chapter or some sort of change of context are completely absent, making for some pretty confusing changes of context that you don't get until halfway through the paragraph.
But yes, real effort to format a work for a new medium is something I would pay for... but many ebooks are more expensive than the paperback I already own. I doubt the effort put in to the new format is more than the original.
UBIK!
For extreme per-use pricing, see UBIK by Philip K. Dick.
Nothing like having to pay your door to let you out of your apartment.
Brandon