I think it would be a very good idea to "disable" pirate links. We just had a discussion about that in the cb. Now that I really think about it, as a site dedicated to Perl and it's advancement, I do believe we have a responsibility to do what we can to prevent links to pirated materials from being distributed through our community, especially and specifically on Perl Monks. The point was also made in the earlier discussion, that some of these authors, such as the all powerful merlyn, for one, are monks, themselves, so, seeing as how these people dedicate their time to our monastery for the good of the advancement of knowledge, we certainly should do our part to keep their hard work protected.

I recently found out that I unintentionally downloaded a pirated copy of a Perl book (I deleted it, of course, and felt terribly ignorant for not even realizing that I had done it). I was quite surprised to find out how easily these are distributed, and how well they are disguised as sponsored and/or permitted copies, which is why I might seem a bit...passionate, lol.

Don't get me wrong, I love, respect and appreciate the monastery and all it's monks :) (honestly, I do). I just thought grep brought up a really good point, or rather, idea that we as a community, should consider :)

++ grep Good lookin' out ;)

Oh, and good point tinita, I've wondered that as well :) ++

In reply to Re^2: Editing pirated content links in reaped nodes by koolgirl
in thread Editing pirated content links in reaped nodes by grep

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