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Did no one else feel that the biggest issue with the original ip block was not the motivation for the block but rather Yale's blocking of a website on copyright grounds in the first place?

Maybe Yale is indeed in the right to try to control use of this data. But Yale most certainly is not in the right to unilaterally block access, regardless of the reasoning.

(NB., my concern is not with legal rights, but rather a higher standard of moral or ethical rights that Yale, as a purportedly high-minded institution, should hold itself to.)




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