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Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt
JimMarch(equalccw) writes "Our favorite crooked voting company Diebold has lost a MAJOR copyright
case (click
for ruling here or description
here). Short form: Diebold's internal documents (key
excerpts here and
here and here) and code were
floated all over the 'net last year, showing all kinds of horror.
Diebold filed cease'n'desist notices under the DMCA (such as mine linked here);
a court has now ruled that Diebold wrongfully abused the DMCA by issuing these takedown notices about materials that they knew were not covered by their copyright."
"a court has now ruled that Diebold wrongfully abused the DMCA by issuing these takedown notices about materials that they knew were not covered by their copyright."
Ah, more evidence that the judicial system just doesn't work here in America.... Next thing you know we'll all be rounded up under the homeland securi-- Oh wait...
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Is this so called "Electronic Voting". In my day, we drew straws, and we liked it like that.
So, when's the perjury trial?
When hell freezes over and the Cubs face the Red Sox in the world series. Ashcroft would probably have to bring the case.
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If God had intended people to be more powerful than croporations, it would have endowed them with a dollar generator!
"The takedown notices were sent under penalty of perjury, right? And there isn't even the wiggle room of the perjury clause only pertaining to the statement that the sender is an agent of the copyright holder, since the documents weren't covered by copyright."
It all hinges on what's the definition of "is."
When hell freezes over and the Cubs face the Red Sox in the world series
No, Ashcroft bringing a case against Diebold is a sign of the Apocalypse.
So to you hell freezing over and the Cubs in the world series just means it's Tuesday?
Never confuse volume with power.
Its because of that damned liberal media! They are so liberal they ignore massive stories that are not in the current regimes interests.
Bush and Blair ate my sig!
Florida releases a sample ballot for the November election.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
They might be looking at producing one machine to serve several markets: An ATM voting machine for fast food drive-through. Deposit your money, leave your order, and super-size your vote all in one stop!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
a court has now ruled that Diebold wrongfully abused the DMCA
...So wait, is there a way to rightfully abuse the DMCA?
Or does simply using the DMCA count as abuse?
A question: Has anyone put together an Open Source voting protocol?
I think Diebold has. One line of code from their source explains it all...
if (vote = GW_BUSH) {
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...isn't Diebold at all. It's those pesky "activist judges" who want to go allowing the undesirables to vote.
What'll those crazy unelected judges do next?! If we're not careful, soon they'll be "enforcing the Constitution" or some other such nonsense.
(For the humor impaired, this is not a troll.)
That green slime had it coming.
You are right about that. I have heard that a good faith belief can come from "it came to me in a dream". That means you can send a DMCA takedown notice to anyone and simply claim that you had a dream where they were infringing your copyright and that is sufficient for a good faith belief.
Diebold "wrongfully abused" The DMCA act? Does that mean that they used it properly?
No no no, it just means that they need some remedial training so they can abuse it correctly next time.
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Looks like those documents are gone now!
Guess Diebold should have just posted to slashdot to get the documents removed from the internet.
Perhaps slashdot should consider a [cache] link for each link since this is such a regular occurence.
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