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Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 14:18 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions by boudewijn
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Consider the following page:

http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/play.html

I'm quoting from it:

> To access my Debian play machine ssh to
> play.coker.com.au as root, the password is

[password ommited]

> I give no-one permission to distribute
> this password. If you want to share
> information on this machine you must
> give the URL to this web site

I'm not completely sure that the password here is long enough to be protected by copyright, but even if it isn't, it's easy to make a similar example that is enforceable. Thus I could have easily used my browser using my browser to circumevent the license of that page. But out of respect to the author of that page I avoid that.

In fact, most common browsers include functionality such as "send page" and that help you violate copyright licensing and easily publish the results. The sky is not falling, AFAIK. The internet is alive and kicking.


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