Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
Linux Australia president Pia Smith told Builder AU the MPAA had issued Linux Australia with a notice of claimed infringement demanding the group cease providing access to two copyrighted movies -- one called 'Grind' and the other 'Twisted' -- and ordering it to 'take appropriate action against the account holder'. However, the files in question had nothing to do with those movies. The file entitled Twisted is a download of the popular framework written in Python and Grind refers to a download of Valgrind, a tool for developers to locate memory management." Linux Australia looks set to have some fun with this one.
Posted Sep 20, 2004 14:20 UTC (Mon)
by marduk (subscriber, #3831)
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Posted Sep 20, 2004 14:29 UTC (Mon)
by TimCunningham (guest, #10316)
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"I've got 100 DLLs on the radar!"
Posted Sep 20, 2004 15:29 UTC (Mon)
by phip (guest, #1715)
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Posted Sep 20, 2004 15:36 UTC (Mon)
by ayeomans (guest, #1848)
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Posted Sep 21, 2004 2:28 UTC (Tue)
by agapecs (guest, #24844)
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Posted Sep 20, 2004 18:49 UTC (Mon)
by mmarq (guest, #2332)
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gush... Did they(MPAA) belive that they can control the millions oF Windows users that are the large majority of propellers of pirated movies ?... how ?... do they got hooks in Windows to spy on them ?... or what ?...
I never eared of MPAA complaining to Microsoft about those issues !!
Posted Sep 20, 2004 22:30 UTC (Mon)
by petegn (guest, #847)
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no you wont will you cus the flaming goat is in bed wiv em' in the firs place aint e!.. they aint never gettin no GBH from them MPAA worms cus they is one and the same bunch o ********@@@~~~@@@)()(&&&...
nuff said .
pete
Posted Sep 20, 2004 23:11 UTC (Mon)
by mmarq (guest, #2332)
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Hoo god... you are being so nice to them!... seriously, i belive they are worst than that.
Posted Sep 22, 2004 12:34 UTC (Wed)
by wookey (guest, #5501)
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Hmm - the previously high standards of discourse on LWN appear to be dropping.
Posted Sep 20, 2004 19:37 UTC (Mon)
by s_cargo (guest, #10473)
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SO... when the MPAA boneheads send your ISP notice regarding your "Grind" and "Twisted", will your ISP terminate your account based on the mere allegation?
Posted Sep 20, 2004 20:42 UTC (Mon)
by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
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Sending nasty letters is about at the top of the list of the rights exclusive to the owner of a copyright. Imagine how much trouble you'd get in if you started calling up theaters insisting that they not show movies because they're illegal copies.
Posted Sep 20, 2004 19:52 UTC (Mon)
by huffd (guest, #10382)
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Posted Sep 20, 2004 21:01 UTC (Mon)
by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
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Bruce
Posted Sep 21, 2004 1:51 UTC (Tue)
by akumria (guest, #7773)
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MPAA alleged infringement notice
Posted Sep 21, 2004 2:28 UTC (Tue)
by djabsolut (guest, #12799)
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Posted Sep 21, 2004 2:32 UTC (Tue)
by leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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Let's hope they never make a movie called "System 32" ;-)Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
Haha, I can see it now.Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
"20 meters!"
"10 meters!"
"They're right on top of us!!"
If we could just trick them into producing a movie (or hit single) named index.html...Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
With this infringement?
Wonder how many MPAA summons Sun is getting?
maybe a movie called "DOS"...:o) Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
dos...dumb or stupid...
Does anyone sense a 'regret' against Linux and Open Source ?... in this so ushly statement...Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
>>I never eared of MPAA complaining to Microsoft about those issues !!Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
" ********@@@~~~@@@)()(&&&... "Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
"they aint never gettin no GBH from them MPAA worms cus they is one"Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
I'm not finding a lot of humor in this. Have you checked your ISP's acceptable use policy (AUP) lately? Read this example from Charter.net (section 3). They seem to say that more than one alleged infringement can get you branded as a "repeat copyright infringer".
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
The thing that's interesting is that, if Linux Australia keeps pushing on this, we could have a good way of embarrassing the MPAA when they do interviews. "So you claim to be an organization for protecting copyright, but I can't find any record of you actually protecting copyright. In fact, the only time you've gone to trial, you were found guilty of violating copyright yourself. How do you reconcile your position with your criminal record?"Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
Instead of naming applications after soft-n-fuzzy critters or deep space anomalies. Let's name application packages after movies!Dang! What an Idea!
That would get the MPAA's underwear in a bunch.
Geeze, can you imagine if every project at sourceforge was named after a movie??
If Windows was named after a movie it would have to be "Bridge Over River Kwai"! Bwaaahhaaa!!! Ooh, we and it's only Monday..
All Debian releases have been named after Toy Story characters. And I don't remember it well, but it could be that "Buzz" came about before the official release of the movie.Dang! What an Idea!
In case anyone is interested, the text of the letter sent by the MPAA is
available.
Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
surely you mean "ZDNet UK" ? Linux blunder Down Under could land MPAA in court (ZDNet)
It's all Commonwealth, anyway. (-: Hi from Oz :-) Ah, shrug, close enough