Anti-Circumvention Laws Raise the Cost of Knowledge
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
Reddit's lawsuit against SerpAPI and Perplexity invokes Section 1201 of the DMCA, the anti-circumvention provision, to challenge automated access to Google search results.
Why it ranked
No. 118 of 124 with a score of 0.55. The panel rated it highest on audience breadth (0.69) and new information (0.68), lowest on technical depth (0.31). The judges disagreed most on new information (spread 0.67), so the story is marked contested.
Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.55total under rubric v2.2Contestedjudges differ by 0.67 on new information
- Significance0.61
- Reader interest0.65
- Audience breadth0.69
- Practical relevance0.54
- Substantiated0.50
- Technical depth0.31
- New information0.68
- Counts against: Promotional0.07
- Counts against: Overclaim0.30
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.73 | 0.45 | 0.65 | 0.61 | 0.28 | +0.24 | +0.146 |
| Reader interest | 0.58 | 0.60 | 0.78 | 0.65 | 0.20 | +0.26 | +0.170 |
| Audience breadth | 0.82 | 0.55 | 0.70 | 0.69 | 0.27 | +0.13 | +0.090 |
| Practical relevance | 0.55 | 0.45 | 0.62 | 0.54 | 0.17 | +0.22 | +0.119 |
| Substantiated | 0.39 | 0.50 | 0.62 | 0.50 | 0.23 | +0.05 | +0.025 |
| Technical depth | 0.42 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.31 | 0.22 | +0.05 | +0.015 |
| New information | 0.92 | 0.25 | 0.88 | 0.68 | 0.67 , above the contested threshold | +0.05 | +0.034 |
| Promotional | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.07 | −0.19 | −0.014 |
| Overclaim | 0.29 | 0.35 | 0.25 | 0.30 | 0.10 | −0.11 | −0.033 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.553 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.553 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.
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