arstechnica.com— The EFF has launched a barrage of recent court cases against DMCA abusers, and have had good success so far. Viacom may be their next target.
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Ive gotten a DMCA notice before, I had the content deleted before my host read the DMCA letter, but they shut down my website anyway. Its people who send out DMCA notices before contacting the website owner in the first place that pisses me off. I am MORE than willing to remove copyrighted content, but when I dont know it is there its kinda hard... I shouldn't have my site shutdown by godaddy when the links in the DMCA notice are dead anyway!!
Here he goes again - stopfairuse.info - This moron thinks Fair Use is the problem, and that the DMCA doesn't go far ENOUGH? Goddamn, I hope nobody takes this, ahem, crook seriously. :P
Viacom isnt going to be next so long as they send dmca notices for their own content that they have the rights to. Enough sensationalist crap on digg please, use common sense before posting nonsense
The US Supreme court has been subverted before, when money was at stake.In the 20's the Supreme court ruled that that a recent constitutional amendment did not give the government additional powers of taxation. In the 50's a lower court "reversed" the decision, which is illegal.There is no law that grants the government the right to tax income. Yet they do it anyway.
Just goes to show the DMCA is a bad piece of legislation. Not completely unexpected though from a legislative body that is composed of mostly brain dead, clueless, out of touch, rich lawyers. And thumbs down to Bill Clinton for signing the piece of s**t.
MacSuxWindozSux1) Your name "sux" and it sickens me to type it2) You have no idea what you're talking about. Because you neglected to site any case law, probably as a tactic to keep from being refuted, I can only assume the case you refer to is <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Kerbaugh-Empire_Co">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Kerbaugh-Empire_Co</a> . Contrary to everything you said, the Supreme Court in that case and Brushaber and pretty much every successive case has reiterated that, not only is the taxation of income completely legal, but that Congress actually had that power in the previous Constitution, classified as what would be called a "direct tax." What the 16th Amendment (that's the amendment you're alluding to, by the way) did was reaffirm Congress's right to income taxation and eliminate all limits that would have been placed on it as a "direct tax" (i.e. state apportionment). Come on, do you really think that the US gov. has been illegally taxing us for years and nobody's said anything?? If you have no knowledge of basic Constitutional law, don't post about it.
Hey i would agree with you, you present a strong argument if what you say is accurate.I'm no legal scholar.But I do know that a growing number of people have gone to court with the IRS and won on this very issue.I was watching a documentary about it.oh... and you must be a Mac user.
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
Ive gotten a DMCA notice before, I had the content deleted before my host read the DMCA letter, but they shut down my website anyway. Its people who send out DMCA notices before contacting the website owner in the first place that pisses me off. I am MORE than willing to remove copyrighted content, but when I dont know it is there its kinda hard... I shouldn't have my site shutdown by godaddy when the links in the DMCA notice are dead anyway!!
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
I'm sure you are also one of those fools who steals content and claims it is "fair use"
travelsonicMar 17, 2007
Here he goes again - stopfairuse.info - This moron thinks Fair Use is the problem, and that the DMCA doesn't go far ENOUGH? Goddamn, I hope nobody takes this, ahem, crook seriously. :P
phil246Mar 17, 2007
Viacom isnt going to be next so long as they send dmca notices for their own content that they have the rights to. Enough sensationalist crap on digg please, use common sense before posting nonsense
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
The US Supreme court has been subverted before, when money was at stake.In the 20's the Supreme court ruled that that a recent constitutional amendment did not give the government additional powers of taxation. In the 50's a lower court "reversed" the decision, which is illegal.There is no law that grants the government the right to tax income. Yet they do it anyway.
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
Just goes to show the DMCA is a bad piece of legislation. Not completely unexpected though from a legislative body that is composed of mostly brain dead, clueless, out of touch, rich lawyers. And thumbs down to Bill Clinton for signing the piece of s**t.
mirag3Mar 17, 2007
MacSuxWindozSux1) Your name "sux" and it sickens me to type it2) You have no idea what you're talking about. Because you neglected to site any case law, probably as a tactic to keep from being refuted, I can only assume the case you refer to is <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Kerbaugh-Empire_Co">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Kerbaugh-Empire_Co</a> . Contrary to everything you said, the Supreme Court in that case and Brushaber and pretty much every successive case has reiterated that, not only is the taxation of income completely legal, but that Congress actually had that power in the previous Constitution, classified as what would be called a "direct tax." What the 16th Amendment (that's the amendment you're alluding to, by the way) did was reaffirm Congress's right to income taxation and eliminate all limits that would have been placed on it as a "direct tax" (i.e. state apportionment). Come on, do you really think that the US gov. has been illegally taxing us for years and nobody's said anything?? If you have no knowledge of basic Constitutional law, don't post about it.
Closed AccountMar 30, 2007
Hey i would agree with you, you present a strong argument if what you say is accurate.I'm no legal scholar.But I do know that a growing number of people have gone to court with the IRS and won on this very issue.I was watching a documentary about it.oh... and you must be a Mac user.