Didn't Congress just make prior art completely irrelevant by changing to first-to-file? And Labyrinth grossed $12m by "stealing" ON-ART's precious intellectual property.
1) Write a script that problematically creates DMCA takedown notices.
2) Make it crawl YouTube and send a takedown notice on everything it finds.
3) ???
4) Profit
Remember back when everyone thought that if your IP is revealed you become "hackable"? Well, now it's true!
I forsee a severalfold rise in "injector" software that allows one to insert IP addresses into a BitTorrent swarm.
Maybe we could shut down 76.74.24.200 (riaa.com), 69.172.201.20 (mpaa.org), 184.51.36.110 (whitehouse.gov), 143.228.181.132 (house.gov), and more- the possibilities are endless!
Writing to an elected constituent? You might as well send fan mail to Justin Bieber, you'd have a better chance of getting the intended person to read it.
Hell, for all I know, modern technology allows them to open, OCR, respond with a pre-printed response, and destroy any trace of the letter without human eyes ever touching it.
And god help you if you think email does anything.
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Re: Re: Re:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981205224124/http://www.techdirt.com/
Was that so hard for either party?
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Re: Yeah so?
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It's not like I'd get fines or jailtime for it.
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2) Make it crawl YouTube and send a takedown notice on everything it finds.
3) ???
4) Profit
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Something I've been wondering
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I forsee a severalfold rise in "injector" software that allows one to insert IP addresses into a BitTorrent swarm.
Maybe we could shut down 76.74.24.200 (riaa.com), 69.172.201.20 (mpaa.org), 184.51.36.110 (whitehouse.gov), 143.228.181.132 (house.gov), and more- the possibilities are endless!
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Re: What is it with you and the "fashion industry"?
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Hell, for all I know, modern technology allows them to open, OCR, respond with a pre-printed response, and destroy any trace of the letter without human eyes ever touching it.
And god help you if you think email does anything.
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Out of curiosity
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Free as in freedom
Free as in no money paid
And free as in no cost paid period
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Oh yeah, Chrome added that as a proprietary feature: <x-webkit-destroy-internet>
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