Timeline for answer to Announcing a change to the data-dump process by Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
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| Jul 19, 2024 at 16:39 | comment | added | bad_coder | @SPArcheon-onstrike yeah, the "isn't practical" lasts until a court order tells the billion dollar companies they must and damages are awarded. I think it's practical do delete something. | |
| Jul 19, 2024 at 16:16 | comment | added | ert | There are no prior dumps to be updated. In the post: "The dump file will be provided in an “instant” format - we will generate a URL on the backend for the data from the site to be downloaded." | |
| Jul 19, 2024 at 12:01 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | @SPArcheon-onstrike The term "reasonably practical" isn't well-defined, but if you define a data dump as a point-in-time snapshot of the user contributed content, I wouldn't consider it reasonably practical to invest the time and effort to go through every single snapshot (or even the most recent snapshot) and remove the attribution and then repackage it. | |
| Jul 19, 2024 at 11:58 | comment | added | SPArcheon | [cont.] Otherwise it would be very easy to workaround the rules by carefully crafting technical limitations in your own infrastructure that have no reasons to exist outside being abused to claim you "can't" fulfill your legal obligations. That said... I must be missing something here. WHY would they have to store every single data dump available in the past? If any, this seem the perfect devious plan to silently remove that and make only the last dump available. After all, the vexatious UI mockup does NOT include any date selection. | |
| Jul 19, 2024 at 11:55 | comment | added | SPArcheon | @ThomasOwens to be fair, I would say that it is "practical" to remove the info from old dumps. IMHO the intent of that line is to rule out impossible tasks like "go door by door to each one who downloaded your data dump and fix the local offline versions they have on their hard disk", not to cover up for bad decisions someone made with their infrastructure. It is "reasonably possible" to fix a file, the fact that it would be extremely costly if they stored every single dump since the start of time is not part of the picture. | |
| Jul 19, 2024 at 9:43 | comment | added | Thomas Owens |
The full legal code says If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable. It's important to read the full code and not the summaries. Th last five words in the clause - to the extent reasonably practical - are key. Of course, there are legal concerns, but attribution removal isn't one regardless of where the content is hosted.
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| Jul 19, 2024 at 5:54 | history | answered | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |