Folks, singing "ding dong the witch is dead" is highly inappropriate.

Don't y'all know the etsy witches' curse made it happen?

@micahflee @khm I didn't see any legitimately critical CVEs there.

@micahflee Can you clarify whether you have any reason to believe it's actually vulnerable to anything? Most of those vulns only affect wacky configurations, commercial hosting environments where the customers are untrusted and may be running malicious serverside code, and particular types of web application stuff (vs static content).

Personally I tend to look unkindly on vuln reporters who assert that something of mine is vulnerable based on some checklist for the version they find running rather than actual analysis.

@susankayequinn My understanding (not a lawyer) is that the *particular suit* being ruined by the "fair use" thing is reason to opt out of the class and have another chance at it. With a lawyer who's actually been told to prioritize making the case that it's not fair use, and given leads to expert witnesses (e.g. mathematicians who actually understand what the model is) qualified to convince a court of that.

Is it possible to be in the class collecting damages from the piracy that took place downloading corpus from libgen, without that putting you in a class where it's been ruled that the incorporation of all your books into their model was non-infringing? These seem like two separate allegations of infringement.

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know. I hope someone who is a lawyer can help advise on this, tho.

@susankayequinn If you don't accept being in the class you still have grounds (whether you use it or not) to make a case against them yourself, and even if not, you don't grant that their wrongdoing against you has been compensated and is a closed deal.

If the amount were going to be substantial, I guess it's a matter of how much of a difference it makes to an individual author's life and whether that's worth it. But as expected it's really low.

@susankayequinn Yeah fuck that shit. Everyone should opt out of the class.