Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site

Tuxedo Jack writes "The Register reports that Odeon Cinemas, a British theater chain, has ordered a takedown of a copycat version of its site that was made by a disability activist. The original didn't work outside of IE on Windows and was in violation of the Disability Discrimination Act; the activist-recoded one worked on everything. Odeon has flip-flopped on the issue, too; they liked it when it was first up, and now they don't."

Comments

Re:Why do they bother?

[CountBrass]

Yeah and if you drove a car along a crowded pavement you'd kill and injure a lot of people, ergo you should never be allowed to drive a car.

Re:Should've hired him

[linuxtelephony]

If the site is in violation of the disability law, then he should take down his copycat site (already done it looks like) and then immediately sue Odeon for the violation.

After all, it sounds like this guy can probably document the two years of "we'll have it soon" delay tactics. Two years is MORE than enough time to comply.

And, unlike U.S. people, who would have sued the company first, this guy was just trying to be helpful. [He probably should have just submitted the data entered at his site directly to the appropriate script on Odeon's site.]