IDSA Forces Arcade Game Manual Archive Offline

AtariKee writes "The IDSA and the DMCA has struck again, this time forcing the maintainer of Stormaster.com, a coin-operated video game manual and tech information archive, to shut down. Stormaster has been an invaluable resource for collectors of classic coin-operated video games for years, and this loss further demonstrates the idiocy that is the DMCA. I can understand ROM images to some extent, but 25 year old coin-op operator/tech manuals? The full text of the IDSA's letter can be read on Stormaster's site." Previous Slashdot posts about IDSA (Interactive Digital Software Association) show that this is typical of the organization.

Comments

Re:Looks fake to me

[ewhac]

Note: The information transmitted in this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, reproduction, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. [ ... ]

Prohibited by what?

The recipient received this notice unsolicited. There was no prior agreement in place that the recipient would maintain the contents of the notice in confidence. Therefore, barring national security interests, I can't see any reason why the recipient shouldn't be free to do anything they want with the notice, including expose the sender to public ridicule and derision.

It's meaningless boilerplate.

Schwab

Re:Clever Idea

[TwistedSquare]

In related news, http://www.twistedsquare.com/ has recieved a letter accusing it of blatant and cheap advertising on slashdot ;-)

Re:you are right, but...

[Dun Malg]

you are still a prick.

Yeah, I sure am. I flame and troll here on /. so I don't have to be one in real life. :)

perhaps you could just point out that guy's mistake instead of flying off and saying he needs to learn to read. this isnt middle school.

I could, but I get tired of the same predictable old crap the same bunch of /. dopes vomit forth when one of a certain set of subjects arises:
"AMD CPU makes a good toaster...uhuhhuhhuh..."
"I'll patent taking out stupid patents...uhuhhuhhuh..."
"Wait till that critical [windows-based app] goes bluescreen!...uhuhhuhhuh.."
"I'll copyright that patent!...uhuhhuhhuh.."
"in soviet russia [etc]...uhuhhuhhuh.."

I just get sick of the karma-whore parroting of inanities every time the one of those subject comes up. No matter how wrong/lame one of these dopes is, there's always 3 or 4 more dopes with mod points marking it "+1 insightful" and making it show up even when I'm reading at +3 or higher. This isn't middle school? Coulda' fooled me...