Libraries join protest against website blocking laws
In the footsteps of habrahabr.ru/post/184468 and ahead of rublacklist.net/5847
Non-profit network libraries supported the protest. The three largest resources - in alphabetical order Kullib , Maxim and Flibusta - closed for a day, posting an informational stub with links to the law and online petition sites.
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Someone might find it funny that the sites declared “pirated” have come out to protest against blocking. However:
Who will risk next?
Non-profit network libraries supported the protest. The three largest resources - in alphabetical order Kullib , Maxim and Flibusta - closed for a day, posting an informational stub with links to the law and online petition sites.
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Someone might find it funny that the sites declared “pirated” have come out to protest against blocking. However:
- The upcoming and already adopted laws are not aimed at solving the problems of modern copyright. Antipiracy rhetoric is used as a cover for censorship and pupation of the Runet.
- The online libraries contain hundreds of thousands of books - free, with expired, unspecified, or "sleeping" copyright. The same situation with music, movies, images. Close everything would mean the loss of a large reservoir of culture in the space of the former USSR.
- Library users are not deputies, but completely ordinary people, 99% of the country. Who live with these laws and who need at least information about what is happening.
Who will risk next?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/185326/
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