Diebold, Disney, Many Others Caught Editing Wikipedia Entries In Their Favor
from the no-socker-there dept
This will probably come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but a new Wikipedia scanner service is matching the IP address of Wikipedia edits to the organizations the IPs are associated with -- and it's turning up some interesting matches. For example, there's the person coming from a Diebold IP who deleted paragraphs and paragraphs of Wikipedia content that highlighted Diebold's ongoing security problems. Then there's the Disney employee who tried to pull a link to Cory Doctorow's speech on why DRM is bad for business from the DRM entry. Wired is actually keeping a running tally of some of the most interesting edits. Now, before people use this as more evidence as to Wikipedia's trust problems, it doesn't look like those edits did much damage, as they were quickly changed back to the more appropriate entries by those watching out for vandalism.
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I certainly didn't. If the content I have doesn't comply with the Fair Use Act then no dmca will stop me. I would argure that most people don't have a clue what DRM is. I think it was wired that stated that most people don't even understand the technology in their ps3 or 360 how would you expect them to understand DRM.
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Yeah right
Why would anyone be happy that their shinny new mp3 player won't play cause the tune was bought from some other download stote. Also where did we voluntarily have our technology locked down? Where on the CD or mp3 player does it have this license agreement?
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Sue them to death
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You said Diebolds?
Frightened regards from Spain :-S
Paquito.
http://paquito4ever.blogspot.com
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Self Evident
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Re: Self Evident
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well
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so how well do IP addresses match up to companies
Of course, if they took the hit and admit that the IP addresses are theirs, then we're back to (almost) the present situation. But any spinning they try to do along the lines of "unknown persons inside the network" or "non-approved activity" can still be applied by defendants of those ridiculous lawsuits from the RIAA/MPAA.
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Re: so how well do IP addresses match up to compan
I'm guessing that the defense they would use is something to the effect of claiming that while they are not responsible for all the activity on their network they would claim that an alleged pirate would be responsible due to numbers. They would argue that since their network is being used by hundreds of people at once they should not be expected to monitor it properly (which would relate to their desires to hold ISPs accountable for infringing material, end Fair Use, and rewrite the DMCA to their liking) whereas an individual should be expected to properly monitor their own network. Of course this argument would wrapped in some crazy legalese.
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As far as the whole DRM tangent goes, have you ever noticed that all the big companies who are screaming that music downloads are hurting artists say almost nothing about the far more common practice of burning a copy of a CD? Maybe it's because the big companies don't make money from downloads, but they do sell CD-RW drives and blank CD media, so they make money on burned CDs. Their contracted artists don't, though.
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