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namibjtoday at 12:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

Well it should be unconstitutional for any law or government ordinance to demand compliance with any standards that are pay-to-copy.

Arguably the government should publish a blessed magnet link of a blessed torrent file per each field of standard. Probably with the padding files used to make each PDF individually hash-checkable.

If nothing else it's a practical way of declaring what standard version is the legally significant one. It's usable without actually sharing any of the PDFs anyways.


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mghackerladytoday at 1:18 PM

The ISO should make all their standards CC BY-NC

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apical_dendritetoday at 12:45 PM

The content you're describing is a minuscule fraction of what's available on Anna's Archive.

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