Breaking the SERA control on regional repeater lists

[KC2SYK]

Thought this might be appreciated over here.

* Breaking the SERA control on regional repeater lists (https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/3s4y6n/breaking_the_sera_control_on_regional_repeater/)
* Ask and you shall receive -- Southeast repeaters (https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/3sha2b/ask_and_you_shall_receive_southeast_repeaters/)
* Coordinated repeaters in the Southeast, as of February 2015 (https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/3u4t0w/coordinated_repeaters_in_the_southeast_as_of/)

The list: http://pastebin.com/7Hng0zcu

[KG4NEL]

Reddit FTW!

[KC2SYK]

BTW, if anyone has access to the Alabama data, please message me.

http://www.alabamarepeatercouncil.org/index.php/membership/arc-directory-by-frequency/

[kb2vxa]

Oh man, this really cracks me up! Mega, now after a mess of legal troubles reorganized as Mega The Next Generation, for YEARS has made The Pirate's Den look like small potatoes. It has made Kim Dotcom the wealthiest pirate in history... but I digress. To the point, if anybody knows how to break SERA's stranglehold and skirt copyright issues pirates are experts at it, one mention of Tor was the call to arms. Heh, give a pirate a radio and he becomes a ham, who gnu?

Oh, speaking of pirates, if you know the inspiration for each of these characters you're a fan of H. P. Lovecraft.

[KG4NEL]

What?

[NQ6U]

What?

“Forget it, Jake. It's Warren, VXA”

[WA7PBE]

bet somebody might be pissed, not like i care they pretty much deserve it. Members only type crap like this is something that is a poison this hobby, not to mention on the 2m and 70cm band where a lot of newer hams hang around being a tech and all.

[kb2vxa]

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[KG4NEL]

I'm not saying I don't torrent the bejeezus out of copyrighted material - because I do - but this is, by case law, in the public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._Rural_Telephone_Servi ce_Co.)

It's not very helpful for me personally as most of the active ones in NC are published in Google Maps form, which is eleventybillion times more useful, but holding the data hostage for $20 is backwards.

[KC2SYK]

Torrents are for distributing large files. Not for copyright-infringing materials. In fact, to connect to peers on the torrent, your IP gets shared. So its not particularly anonymous.

Regardless, this file is only 120kB and it doesn't make sense to distribute it as a torrent. And this is non-copyrightable material, so it doesn't make sense on several levels.

[VE7DCW]

My apologies for appearing to be silly in asking what this thread is all about but, is this repeater listing supposed to be top secret or what? .............. a big deal over nothing?

Sorry,I'm Canadian....... no Comprendo! :mrgreen:

[KC2SYK]

This should tell you what the issue is. They treated the listing as proprietary.


http://www.sera.org/sera-database-listings.html

[KG4NEL]

web site in quotes lulz

[VE7MGF]

is there still a arrl repeater book?

[KC2SYK]

Yes.

[kb2vxa]

"In fact, to connect to peers on the torrent, your IP gets shared."
To avoid your IP becoming known you use a seed box and a VPN. Now we close the portal on torrents and the Old Ones, Cthulhu sleeps and dreams.

"And this is non-copyrightable material, so it doesn't make sense on several levels."
What's to make sense? Hello. Why should anything make sense?

[W3WN]

This should tell you what the issue is. They treated the listing as proprietary.

http://www.sera.org/sera-database-listings.htmlSounds familiar.

Used to have a similar issued with the WPRC... the former frequency coordinator treated the repeater database like his personal little plaything that no one else was allowed any access to.

[W3WN]

BTW, it took me all of 3 minutes to copy that listing from pastebin.com, save it as a CSV, and import it into Excel. So what's the problem?