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« The updated agreement makes several changes from its previous iteration, but the most notable is that #Nintendo says that if it thinks you're doing the #piracy for any reason, it can suspend all kinds of services on your console, up to and including bricking it completely »

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/01/nintendos-anti-consumer-anti-piracy-measures-also-reduce-the-value-of-the-switch-2/

#Gaming #DRM#Enshittification#HugeNO

🏴‍☠️ Although not perfect, I do consider the Republic of Pirates a proto-anarchist society. 🦜

Kings and Generals: Golden Age of Piracy - Real Pirates of the Caribbean

📺️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUG5Fy11xAY
wikihttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Pirates

"… In the aftermath of the War of Spanish Succession, thousands of sailors found themselves jobless, sparking a wave of piracy across the Atlantic world. From Queen Anne’s War and Privateering to the rise of the Pirate Republic of Nassau, this video explores how former privateers like Benjamin Hornigold and Edward Teach (Blackbeard) turned to piracy. The infamous 1715 Treasure Fleet Raid near Florida became a pivotal moment, enriching and emboldening these rogue crews. We trace the Rise of Notorious Pirates such as Blackbeard, Charles Vane, and “Black Sam” Bellamy as they terrorized shipping routes from the Caribbean to the American colonies. But the pirate lifestyle was more than plunder—Pirate Life and British Crackdown reveals the democratic structure aboard pirate ships, the diverse backgrounds of their crews, and the harsh realities of life at sea. Watch as Britain finally moves to suppress the Pirate Republic and reassert control over its trade routes."

#piracy #pirates#RepublicOfPirates#Bahamas#anarchism

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark

This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).

In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by

- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original

I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, follows the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.

#AcademicPublishing#Licensing#Piracy#PlatformCapitalism#PredatoryPublishing

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons

After reading through the CC BY license I am none the wiser whether one has to clearly indicate that the material in question had been originally published somewhere else. The DOI as provided by #ProQuest reveals this fact but only after manually parsing the string with a resolver. Readers unfamiliar with the Programming Historian are made to believe that ProQuest is the original publisher or the platform officially hosting the original content.

However, ProQuest clearly violates the attribution requirements by modifying the layout and removing images. The CC BY license explicitly states that “You must […] indicate if You modified the Licensed Material”.

#AcademicPublishing#PredatoryPublishing#OpenLicenses#CreativeCommons#DigitalHumanities

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark

This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).

In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by

- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original

I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, follows the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.

#AcademicPublishing#Licensing#Piracy#PlatformCapitalism#PredatoryPublishing