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- MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34DMCA abuse? That's very nearly an oxymoron. Pretty much any use of the DMCA is abusive. Erroneous takedown notices are nothing compared to the real crimes of circumventing fair-use and stymieing innovation.
- Easty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18The word you want is tautology.
But yeah, good point. - geegel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I disagree here. Blogging and commenting DO help, at least to make the people aware of the issue. Donating is an entirely different issue.
- geegel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8DMCA is indeed not a fair law, it bypasses the basic presumption that copyright was created for: the copyright should encourage innovation not hinder it.
- Phil246, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Viacom 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 - Detritus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.eff.org/
Join to show your support. Blogging and commenting about an issue doesn't help, put your money where your mouth is. - Smokezz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4www.arete-eci.com/crook.html if you want to see Michael Crook's crap he sent me. He's by far one of the biggest morons that even used the DMCA.
- andycr512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"DMCA is the error, I don't know how such a freedom ravaging law was ever passed."
Money into the pockets of politicians. Lots of it. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm sorry, freedom is too expensive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Ive 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!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just 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 *****.
- Mirag3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2MacSuxWindozSux
1) Your name "sux" and it sickens me to type it
2) 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Kerbaugh-Empire_Co . 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. - fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ebfoxbat
I get what you're saying, but there are real victims here, people who had their own completely original works taken down by companies acting irresponsibly. - bobbknight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Read and know your US Constitution as amended, learn the reasons the writers wrote it the way they did. Then hold your elected representatives to it.
As the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land just under treaties, all laws must conform to it.
Fair use was usurped by the DMCA, so fight to change it. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey 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. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The 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. - gmarks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jamie want big boom.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you're going to say that this is a copy of the Dreamhost blog entry, you should post a link to the Dreamhost blog entry:
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2007/03/15/dealing-with-a-dmca-crook/
Also, don't depend on people having to actually read the entirety of both articles to find pieces that match. The texts are not identical. - Travelsonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here 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
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I hope they go after Viacom, because they will lose, and show the world what a joke their organization is.
- phantom_mullet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2boo DMCA.... HOORAY BEER!
- MotionAesthetic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Freedom is when you don't have to work for nothing or do nothing!
- nusuni, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3I'm sure you are also one of those fools who steals content and claims it is "fair use"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2why is this on the homepage? Dreamhost posted the exact same thing on their blog, because they dealt with crooks.
Dugg down for copy pasta - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I'd like to object to the use of the word "victim" here.
I'm just as pissed at the DMCA and the **AA as the next guy. I hate DRM for what it stands for, however, being an iPodder with iTunes, I've never had a problem with it. I have a 2000 song collecetion with about 30 purchased songs. I've shard them by burning CDs and giving the CDs to people. DRM just doesn't hinder me.
The use of the word "victim" here is a poor choice. It's a word used to try to guilt people into following your cause. That's not the kind of fight I want to support. It's a hard battle, but fight it right and I will support you. Just because we have the same ends in sight, doesn't me we are allies.
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