MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice

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MPAA Sends Linux Australia Dubious Takedown Notice

Posted by timothy on Monday September 20, 2004 @06:01PM from the takedown-is-two-points dept.

L1TH10N writes "News.com has a story on how the MPAA sent a takedown notice to Linux Australia for the movies 'Twisted' and "Grind.' What was actually hosted with Linux Australia is Twisted (being a Python framework) and Valgrind (being a tool for finding memory management problems in programs). An interesting question that the article raises is whether automatic takedown notices based on blind keyword searches constitutes spam."

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I just wanted to try to post something first once by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 18:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Ever wonder what happened to John Katz? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 18:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

He is now writing reviews for calculators! bwahha go john!

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/ 10 7/107838.html
1. Re:Ever wonder what happened to John Katz? by turgid · 2004-09-20 19:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Poor old Jon Katz. He used to take a terrible beating from the trolls here. I quite enjoyed his essays. They did attract quite a lot of derision due to slashbot groupthink, but that is to be expected from thought-provoking and challenging writing. I didn't always agree with him, but he was always a good read.
  
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2. Re:Ever wonder what happened to John Katz? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 20:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  That is a different john katz.
3. Re:Ever wonder what happened to John Katz? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 20:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I think he's actually dead. Seriously.
Re:GNAA ATTACKED BY INTERNET TERRORISTS by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 18:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

GNAA ATTACKED BY INTERNET TERRORISTS

During the night cowardly terrorists claiming to be from p2pchat launched an unprovoked and despicably dastardly attack against Evolnet. Their goal was to disrupt the benign activities of the upstanding organization GNAA [www.gnaa.us] (Gay Nigger Association of AmeriKKKa).

Although their motives are completely unknown, seeing as GNAA is universally loved, their affiliations
mod parent down - troll by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-20 18:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

mod parent down - troll
Totally OT... by acebone · 2004-09-20 18:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is totally OT, but yet somehow you feel a strong inner urge to just respond, you can't help thinking 'uhhmmm I'd so like to respond to this post, and as you reach for the reply link you blahblahbla'

*SNAP*

A month ago or so, Slashdot had a story about a service that worked like a distributed web-cache, a sort of p2p for ISPs.

The idea was that you could browse any page on the net, but by appending a certain domaine to the original domaine you wouldn't actually hit the box, but rather a distributed cache of the content of that box.

So you'd go

www.smallsite.org.xx.yy

and you wouldn't be slashdotting the poor smallsite box.

I can't remember the xx.yy part (I think it was some university in the States) and I can't remember what that service was called. I've tried extensive slashdot and google searches, but I obviously can't remember the keywords for this service.

'And as you've read the question, you dig deep into your memory, you come to the mountain of pizza-cardboxes and broken dreams and you go past that - all the way down, and you feel this urge to reply and you slowly reach for the TAB key and start tabbing your way down to the REPLY link....'

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1. Re:Totally OT... by acebone · 2004-09-20 19:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Yup that's it ! thnx to all of you for being so suggestible :D
  
  And as you see yourself moderating these posts, you can't help feeling good about the slashdot community, how helpful they are, what a resource they are, and you start to see these posts as the very embodiment of these qualities and you see the options in the selectbox, and you ponder the various options, and somehow these posts seems to be even more ontopic and informative than the original story itself, and smiling to yourself you mod ALL these posts +5 Informative, and you feel good about being part of this wonderful community, and you feel good about showing your appreciation and you feel warm inside and the rest of the day you walk around slightly drooling from excessive smiling, forgetting that your zipper is undone, and everybody is so nice to you, even the guys in the handsome uniforms, who are so helpful and show you what a wonderful world there is outside the building.
  
  There that should take care of the mods :)
  
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Re:That does it! by helmespc · 2004-09-20 19:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Lord of the Cock Rings... porno... Sorry I'm drunk... forgive me... I'll regret this in the morning...
Re:What it proves by mabinogi · 2004-09-20 21:20 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Congratulations for correct use of the term "raise the issue" instead of saying "beg the question"!

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Repeat after me.... by thewiz · 2004-09-21 02:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam...

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