Blacklock’s- Note From Blacklock’s Editor
Our counsel today will file notice of appeal in Blacklock’s Reporter v. Attorney General. We challenge a May 31 ruling by a federal judge. The outcome will determine the viability of independent media in our country.
Can you explain in simple terms, what the May 31st ruling was?
Essentially: “ federal managers have a “public interest” in reading Blacklock’s without having to pay for it.” The Federal Court agreed and ruled accordingly.
Then why does the G&M, among othes, recieve payment for such reading from the govenment?
tautological ruling. Blacklock gets its intel from FOIP of federal managers’ documentation.
In short, they don’t need to pay for their information, but they are pissed that Blacklock gets it, so they will punish accordingly.
Here… and it seems mostly because, “we’re the gov’t and we said so” / rules are for the little people.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/06/03/the-government-can-steal-your-stuff/
That an username and password was insufficient to protect them from government sharing among themselves a single password for hundreds of users, costing Blacklocks tens of thousands in revenue.
Just outrageous. Why exactly can’t the government pay for multiple subscriptions? Or negotiate a licence? They seem to have plenty of money for fancy digs in New York,bonuses for CBC.I am disgusted with these chislers.
Hey, they pay for every other media, that is compliant, of course.
What is Blacklocks bitching about? Eevryone knows governments have a right to thieve, a right given to them by governments.
Do government employees get to shoplift coffee and do gas drive offs without paying in the name of public interest.
They have other methods of skimming money.
Bad law. It’s essentially, contractual law and the judge disregarded an agreement (contract) between two parties based on the terms and conditions of purchase. A judge can’t nullify a contract unless it can be shown that there is misrepresentation, mistake, duress, undue influence, incapacity, or illegality.
And, this ruling doesn’t just stop with the independent journalist industry. For example, just about every hotel chain has as an occupancy limit in the terms and conditions of their contract with perspective occupants. They will charge you extra if you have more than double occupancy. Who wants to tell the hotel industry that a renegade judge can just negate terms and conditions?
Or that they could do the same for any other media outfit, denying them tens of dollars.
Search cbc.ca and this is all that comes up:
Blacklock’s Reporter goes to court over website paywall
The people behind Blacklock’s Reporter – a subscription only news website based in Ottawa – are being called “copyright trolls” after launching legal action. A handful of lawsuits target users reading their content without a subscription.
Posted: Nov 10, 2015 11:00 PM CST | Last Updated: November 28, 2018
So that’s all they are at Blacklock’s – “copyright trolls” according to the cbc… but the cbc is part of the information owners group, just like the legal system and Liberal Party government, so they want to bury this story because it doesn’t fit the narrative…
Hey, anyone old enough to remember Napster? There are remarkable similarities here…and the judge threatened to throw those sharing mp3 files in jail for piracy. Good times….good times.
I remember that!
I wonder if anyone has considered implementing 2FA or MFA?
If not, why not?
If so, again, why not?
Without knowing all the details of the case, it seems to me to be a pretty clear-cut solution.
I thought the same thing but implementing MFA is non-trivial and requires a fair bit of expertise if you’re not using a canned provider like Microsoft’s Entra Id. On top of that, a lot of end-users struggle with MFA and it adds friction to the login that will cause some users to give up. Since Blacklock’s is a fairly expensive subscription-based service, this directly translates to loss of revenue.
“…and it adds friction to the login that will cause some users to give up. ”
Oh, yeah. From a user perspective, I can totally relate to that!