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Retailers Swing DMCA To Stop "Black Friday" Sale Info
zoid.com writes "It looks like a few of the big retailers have sent out DMCA notices to a few of the consumer deal sites. So now they are claiming that sale prices are covered under the DMCA. I would like to know what part of the DMCA states that you can not share the price of merchandise. Also, why would they want to stop this free advertising?"
What is "Black Friday???" Slashdot needs to require some basic level of documentaion to every story, the story and the site reference give no details so this story is a waste to almost all of /. readers. DCMA sucks but thats hardly news at this point.
Posting someone's phone number on a public site like Slashdot is *seriously* uncool. I understand your motivations, but soliciting phone calls on a site which regularly gets *tens* of *thousands* of eyeballs, even for "a quick call", an hour before deadline is possibly one of the most asinine things I have yet seen in a Slashdot posting; and, as you may infer from my Slash ID, I've seen a fair bit.
With friends like these, the DMCA needs no bloody help to stick its tendrils into every corner of American business.
Post your own damned phone number next time, fool.
Mouser