The whole idea of Wikipedia was to pirate content from traditional information sources, process it just enough to look like it's not completely stolen, and put it all in one place where it's easy to use.
Now we see those traditional sources are starting to dry up, because there's no profit in it anymore.
And Wikipedia won't always be there either, as they make clear 100% by shutting down on 1/18/12.
If anything, the idea that Wikipedia won't always be there, and that these fly-by-night pirate sites managed by greedy post-pornographer slackers are unreliable and won't always be around, pushes me towards supporting some kind of measure to protect real content generators.
That's not even something I want... bureaucrats suck at that crap the only people who would prosper from these regs are the ones getting the gov't funds or helping organizations to comply with what are likely to be reams of stupid rules.
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