Louis Brauer louis at brauer.family
Sat Feb 13 21:54:00 GMT 2021
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Am Sa, 13. Feb 2021, um 18:51, schrieb Nico:
I disagree. We're not re-hosting their content on gemini, we're just
using gemini as an interface to view it. Viewing medium in a web browser
is a painfully slow experience, we are simply creating a better viewing
experience for ourselves.
Would you use the same argument against, eg. A mobile twitter client?
Twitter posts also aren't an open license. Just my 2 cents.
Please don't get me wrong. I think every effort to make the Gemini ecosystem richer is good.
The advice we give is more about the dangers of bridging a commercial content publisher like medium.com. Bridging and redistributing content in a modified form without consent (which happens here) breaks not only the Usage Terms of medium.com but infringes copyright of the author on the other side. Because the author published on medium.com and not on a gemini proxy under the domain b10m.net. That is a big difference in my opinion.
With your argument, Nico, I could build a streaming proxy to Netflix, re-encode the video stream to a smaller size and in black and white colours and offer the content to anybody using a different protocol than HTTP. I'm very sure it wouldn't take long for a Netflix lawyer to write me a letter.
With my capsule, gemini.tunerapp.org, I also redistribute content from radio-browser.info, but their data is licensed under public domain and the software is GPL. Just because Gemini is a grassroots community project doesn't mean that it is legal to ignore other's terms, licenses and copyright.
- Louis