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
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."
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