Automated DMCA Notices Still Full of Lies

dbaker writes "The MPAA filed a DMCA takedown notice against Superconnect, a software company. The letter is available here that demands the removal of roughly 120K of open-source TCL code that they believe to be a 'copyrighted motion pictures.' This is definitely a surprising case of the guilty until proven innocent world that the DMCA provides." And yet another: enrico_suave writes "The Entertainment Software Association falsely accuses the Interactive Fiction archive of pirating Doom 3. doom3.zip is a 114kb freeware DOS game from 1988. Reminiscent of when the RIAA sent C & D's to a Professor Usher who had an usher.mp3 file posted on his website."

Comments

Re:Wow!

[jekewa]

Curious, I thougth I'd look to see what it is. Whatever it is, it seems to be broken. So you don't have to try, here's the mini-scoop.

> ftp 216.52.171.81
Connected to 216.52.171.81.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.10rc3 Server (Superconnect FTP) [bubbles.hou.corp.sc.com]
Name (216.52.171.81:): anonymous
331 Anonymous login ok, send your complete email address as your password.
Password:
230 Anonymous access granted, restrictions apply.
ftp> cd /pub/tcl/sorted/file/X-Files1.21b
250 CWD command successful
ftp> ls
ftp> ls -l
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
index.html
CHANGES.html
X-Files1.21b.tar.g z
226 Transfer complete.
remote: -l
47 bytes received in 0.0049 seconds (9.35 Kbytes/s)
ftp> get X-Files1.21b.tar.gz
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for X-Files1.21b.tar.gz (115245 bytes)
226 Transfer complete.
local: X-Files1.21b.tar.gz remote: X-Files1.21b.tar.gz
115723 bytes received in 0.54 seconds (210.45 Kbytes/s)
ftp> 221 Goodbye.
> tar -tzf X-Files1.21b.tar.gz
CHANGES
Readme.install
Regi stration.form
X-Files.1x
X-Files.tcl
tar: Skipping to next file header

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

It certainly isn't any kind of compressed video, either... There is a link in the Readme.install file (that did untar). I can't connect, so either the server's down, or the rest of the industrious /. crowd is hammering it...