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Odeon Orders Takedown Of Copycat Site

Posted by timothy on from the you-will-take-your-chances-in-the-tournament dept.

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."

5 of 478 comments (clear)

  1. First post by turbotalon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!

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    I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy

  2. Copy cat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When will the slashdot alike sites be taken down ?

  3. This is complete terrible censorship. by stratjakt · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Below I will repost an passage from "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", while crediting myself as the author:

    The President in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields
    no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the
    government, but the qualities he is required to display are not
    those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this
    reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an
    infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield
    power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria
    Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the
    Galaxy has ever had - he has already spent two of his ten
    Presidential years in prison for fraud. Very very few people
    realize that the President and the Government have virtually no
    power at all, and of these very few people only six know whence
    ultimate political power is wielded. Most of the others secretly
    believe that the ultimate decision-making process is handled by a
    computer. They couldn't be more wrong.

    I WROTE THAT! I'm awesome.

    Any takedown notices or legal threats towards me are censorship.

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  4. Re:Welll by silas_moeckel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I agree with you in priciple (I dont like the ADA laws for a lot of reasons) but this is realy no different than any public place of business the movie theater has to accomidate wheel chairs and hearing impared audio feeds they are just asking the web sites to do the same thing. They are operating a place of business and thus need to make it accessable.

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    No sir I dont like it.
  5. a movie about linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.freetradecampus.com is offering a pre-sale of the DVD "The Code" http://www.linuxthemovie.com
    The story of Linux a little operating system that showed the world an alternative.

    A film by Hannu Puttonen
    Featuring
    LINUS TORVALDS
    RICHARD STALLMAN
    ALAN COX
    ERIC RAYMOND
    ROBERT 'Bob' YOUNG
    JON 'maddog' HALL
    THEODORE TSO
    DAVID S. MILLER
    MIGUEL de ICAZA
    ARI LEMMKE
    ERIC ALLMAN
    ANNA TORVALDS
    NILS TORVALDS
    MARTTI TIENARI
    ANDREW LEONARD
    LARRY AUGUSTIN
    SUN YU-FANG
    LIANG CHANGTAI

    Narrator VISA-PEKKA LAURILA (voice-over)
    SAMI MÄKELÄ (hacking)

    Adam Hunt the Director of "FreeTradeCampus.com" and Kaarle Aho the Executive
    producer of "The Code" have worked out a deal, so that "FreeTradeCampus.com"
    is the only place that the DVD "The Code" is available for a 12 month time. "FreeTradeCampus.com" is in the process of becoming a not-for-profit (501(c)
    3) and will use it's part of the proceeds to off set the cost of operations
    and to setup scholarships and grants for education and open source software
    development.