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Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday Prices
Sethb writes "It looks like Best Buy didn't learn from Wal-Mart last year, and has now invoked the DMCA in order to prevent FatWallet from posting information about what items they will have on sale the day after Thanksgiving. Hopefully FatWallet will stand up for themselves again, and Best Buy will be laughed out of court."
I wonder if it can be used to keep my grades from being released to my parents, I mean yes; they pay the tuition, but isnt the semi-unique sequence of D's and F's my copyright?
...Can I sue my university for even printing them? ;)
The unfortunate side-effect of this is I have to move every few years as I run out of places to buy food, clothes and other necessities of life...
*BUT* at least I live a principled life! ;-)
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When I was at Purdue, they used the super secret method of mailing your grades to your parent's address, with your name on the envelope. So your 'grades were not released to your parents' as long as they did not open the envelope that came in their mailbox with 'grades enclosed' marked on the outside.
This law is getting just a shade ridiculous.
I wasn't aware that the law had changed at all.
Right, and what how fast Mom and Dad stop paying for your school.
they may as well cut their losses as stand around and what it being wasted on you.
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Don't worry, I'll buy twice as much to make up for it!
it's rare to see cataclysmics out and about this late in the year. usually they hibernate.
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Don't marry your girlfriend, she's schizo.
> I wonder if it can be used to keep my grades from being released to my parents,
> I mean yes; they pay the tuition, but isnt the semi-unique sequence of D's and
> F's my copyright?
Certainly you can sue the university for circumventing your resistance to reveal
your copyrighted and well-covered skill profile. Printing and releasing it to
third parties qualifies the university as professional class attacker, probably
driven by monetary or political incentives. This should be enough to arrest them
under DMCA for at least 6 months and then sending them to Russia.
And if our government's sole function was to ensure the highest possible profits for Best Buy, you'd have a point.
Ecactly. Since it's sole function is to ensure the highest profits for the Record Labels, the law doesn't apply here.
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Here it is: Your IP address is 192.168.1.1. See how smart I am? Eat that wanker!
Oh! So that's what this thread is about. Seriously, I thought maybe the article was written by these fine reporters or something!
That might affect whether or not you want to let them see your marks. :-)
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Customer Notice! EULA!
To all customers entering this store you have access to private corporate information regarding prices for items that available for sale in this store. Any attempt to use this information for you own benefit, by comparision shopping or purchasing of items from a competitor, or to the detriment of this store, can be used against you in court of law as a violation of "corporate trade secrets" via DMCA!
Thank you and have a nice visit.
Please! Don't cloud the issue with facts!
Thank you.
>>isnt the semi-unique sequence of D's and F's my copyright?
No. Unfortunately for me, I can claim prior art.
8. You drink alot and use the internet to check where you maxed your credit card out last night. Now you know where you were drinking at, how much that hotel room was, and can piece some of the night togather. Or is that just me?
HAHA, I just walked into Best Buy and got approved for 2500 in instant credit to buy a refridgerator.
I think having a tech job and a high Best Buy card limit should automatically set your credit score to negative, it doesnt get more risky than that.
the destruction witnessed during the American Civil War wouldn't have happened
had the American colonies remained a part of the Empire, Britain would've been so strong that the Germans wouldn't have dared fight them (and us) in the 20th Century and World War I and II would've never happened
Wow. It's cool how you can see into these alternate universes and know the outcomes. I wish I had that power. Revisionist history works both ways.