Printers are pirating media, get takedown notices from RIAA. Octosquids amused.

[Whacker]

http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/

Yes, you read it right folks. Some researchers managed to have takedown notices sent to their printers for "participating" in P2P sharing. It's a long read, but it's honestly worth it. It's amusing, but it also highlights some of the major problems involved in civil infringement legislation, and hints at some of the deeper issues such as burden of proof, and the gestapo-like tactics the RIAA/MPAA have been using.

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[Lemur]

Interesting read, Whacker, thanks for sharing. So these clever computer science students were able to bait DMCA takedown notices for printers and nonsense devices, eh? Should be interesting to read how they did that. I have at least one neighbor who could use a few DMCA notices ...

I note with sadness that Associate Press has learned nothing, nothing from the RIAA's blunderings.


DMCA takedown tiff not a battle the AP should be fighting (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080616-dmca-takedown-tiff-not-a-battle-the-ap-should-be-fighting.html)

The Associated Press, upset that some in the online world might be stealing its audience by reprinting brief quotes from news stories and then linking the source, embarked on a recent campaign to curtail the practice. The AP sent DMCA takedown notices to the Drudge Retort, a sort of left-wing counterpoint to the infamous Drudge Report, and Retort owner Rogers Cadenhead published the news on his blog. Reaction was nearly instantaneous, apoplectic, and mature, with Techcrunch's Mike Arrington "banning" the AP from his site and CUNY media professor Jeff Jarvis crafting a curt headline of his own: "***** AP."

[Whacker]

I note with sadness that Associate Press has learned nothing, nothing from the RIAA's blunderings.

Are you honestly surprised? There's been one or two minor examples of it happening, but what I personally think needs to happen is someone needs to get slapped HARD with a countersuit from a sketchy or illegal DMCA takedown notice. Of course IANAL, but it would seem to me that if a strong legal precedent is set for fighting draconian or ill-conceived DMCA application attempts, then perhaps people might think twice before doing so, realizing they may get sued (successfully) in a civil situation.

Just my thoughts. /shrug

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