In February 2016, Boing Boing (blog of “mostly wonderful things”) published a post linking to an Imgur page featuring “every Playmate Centerfold ever.” Now, nearly a year later, the site is facing legal action from Playboy, which seems to believe that “it is illegal to link to material posted by others on the web.”



Rather than pursuing the individual who created the allegedly infringing archive, Playboy is pursuing a news site for pointing out the archive’s value as a historical document. In so doing, Playboy is seeking to change the legal system so that deep-pocketed opponents of journalism can shut down media organizations that displease them.

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