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Posted by: dgerard (Thursday 11 December 2008, 8:50 PM)

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Oh, it's worse than that

They blocked the text page on en.wikipedia.org talking about the album itself. They blocked the text page on en.wikipedia.org describing the image, its source, copyright, etc.

They did NOT block the image itself, served from upload.wikimedia.org.

Apparently the concept of high-traffic websites using a separate image server completely few over their heads.

Hamfisted AND incompetent.

There is no evidence to suggest they have not fouled up as badly in any other image blocking. zdnet.co.uk might like to indulge in some rather pointed questions to IWF on this matter.

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