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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 05 Jan 2010 09:04 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> A look at Apple's love for DRM and consumer lock-ins
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>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Apple makes great productsâyou'll get no
>>>>| argument from us. But Apple also likes
>>>>| keeping tight control over those products,
>>>>| and if anyone outside of Apple's blessed
>>>>| circle attempts to get in, the company is
>>>>| more than willing to try to use (or abuse)
>>>>| the law to its advantage.
>>>> `----
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>>>> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/a-look-at-apples-love-for-drm-and-consumer-lock-ins.ars
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>>>> Tough To Punish Those Who File Bogus DMCA Takedowns
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>>>>| Eric Goldman highlights a case where an ISP
>>>>| tried to use section (f) to go after a
>>>>| bunch of folks who issued questionable DMCA
>>>>| takedowns that were clearly designed to
>>>>| harass a couple of websites (and, at one
>>>>| point, were used to try to take down the
>>>>| entire ISP). The details are a bit
>>>>| convoluted, but basically, a group of
>>>>| people critical of what was being said on a
>>>>| website issued a series of DMCA takedowns
>>>>| to keep the site down every time it came
>>>>| back up following a counternotice. This
>>>>| seems like a perfect case where the
>>>>| takedown issuers should be hit with
>>>>| sanctions of some sort, but the case was
>>>>| dismissed on procedural grounds instead,
>>>>| which seem to be based on a
>>>>| misunderstanding of the DMCA itself.
>>>> `----
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>>>> http://techdirt.com/articles/20091231/1224117567.shtml
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>>> Wasn't this always the intention of the DMCA? It was to put power to
>>> "copyright owners" so that they could harass "violators" whilst the
>>> legal system went through its process.
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>>> It should never have made the statute books.
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>> The ACTA would spread DMCA to _all_ countries, even the few that rejected the
>> beast.
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> We should not permit companies with vested interests in such things be
> able to drive the legal system. It's like having Monsanto driving
> patents on genetics, say.
They already do that, so farmers took it to Germany's streets.
ACTA is a conspiracy of wealthy companies bribing and corrupting
politicians for their wishlist to become law. A year ago it was
scarcely known, but public pressure (Wikileaks) forced them to fold.
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~~ Best of wishes
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