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Pearson's Anti-Piracy Vendor Takes Down Best-Selling Author's Own GitHub Repo (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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(As I've had posts removed from this community before for not being oniony and so am not sure what the standards are: I think this is oniony because I find it highly ironic that a company would ever make an effort to delete code examples that supplement their own work, and think it could reasonably be part of a satirical headline satirizing copyright enforcement. If mods disagree that this is oniony enough, that's fine with me too.)

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

If mods disagree that this is oniony enough, that's fine with me too.

Y'all good here. This one really does read like satire.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago

Pearson has never been a defender of author’s rights, just Publisher’s rights. As such, I don’t find this surprising.

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 hours ago

Love Pearson.

Love not being able to take the Linux+ test on a Linux machine. >.>

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Might be more boringdystopia material.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

It can be two things!