blog.wired.com — Facebook Secrets isn’t the only site that’s been served with a DMCA, Digg also received a takedown notice and complied (apparently Digg users aren’t as interested in Facebook code as they are in DVD unlocking codes).
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cheesypizzaAug 17, 2007
The original blogger being served the C+D letter:<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0</a>
noamsmlAug 17, 2007
Actually, they're not. One or two of them, maybe, but most people realize that this is nothing to make a ruckus about.
directsunAug 17, 2007
hmmm, could it be the difference is something that wont fit in a friggin comment as opposed to something that's 32 characters?Just a thought
detritusAug 17, 2007
I honestly see where you're going with this and have had similar displeasure with the MAME and Emu community. They get all uppity about how pirating modern games is something they don't support, but abandonware is perfectly legit which I think is garbage because guess who is making the roms and tech for them... That is not what is going on here, though. I'll freely admit I download movies illegally, including HD-DVDs, but the outcry from Digg wasn't about that. There were many legitimate reasons to encourage Kevin to fight the DMCA on the 09 code. I wouldn't support someone posting a torrent here to a movie, even if I downloaded the movie myself. I wouldn't support someone posting stolen CC#s here as being free speech. The HD-DVD take-down represented an ineffectual use of the DMCA to maintain DRM; you can't possibly piss off the Digg core users faster. This Facebook take-down is an ineffectual use of the DMCA to preserve their copyright. I can't fault them for wanting to squash this... no matter how futile and doing so is not an attempt to further violate fair use rights as in the case with the DRM.
sgbealAug 17, 2007
Here's the code:<a class="user" href="http://blog.s11n.net/?p=42">http://blog.s11n.net/?p=42</a>Fu** the DMCA.
t3hxAug 18, 2007
The question is, why the hell do we care? It's a bunch of PHP code that is simply calls to functions in other files that we don't even have. 90% of the Digg users probably don't even know what it does... Just because they're trying to DMCA it down doesn't mean we should be trying to post it everywhere, does it now?