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MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error

Posted by samzenpus on from the pirated-movie-down-under dept.

rjch writes "According to ZDNet Australia, the MPAA is blaming their recent takedown notice to Linux Australia as 'human error'. 'MPAA spokesman Matt Grossman denied the MPAA's system, which sends out 100,000 notices of claimed infringement on an annual basis was flawed. He said the organisation was not doing blind keyword matching against Internet content and sending out automatic infringement notices without checks, as Linux Australia had previously claimed.' When asked why this slipped through their checks, Grossman told Builder AU 'the answer is a simple human error unfortunately. Everyone has a bad day'. Grossman further denied the MPAA was sending out unsolicited e-mails."

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  1. Re:automatic checking! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can you really believe that they are going to manually check 100,000 files for legimacy?

    They must, if they really want to have a case and, most of all, to maintain their credibility.

    I don't know what happened to:
    You are innocent until proven guilty.

    But I guess this is something typical of the US of A:

    "It has come to our knowledge that you are using a computer. This means you must be doing some illegal stuff. Therefore we are going to sue you."

    I somehow get the idea I've heard this kinda crap before:

    "We are a meaningless, retarded country, that has no respect for humanity. We have a moron for a president. We support nazi regimes, throughout the history we have caused the deaths of millions in the whole world. We have WMD's. We want to bomb some country to direct attention away from domestic problems. Therefore you have WMD, we'll destroy your country, we'll destroy our own economy and the world economy. Heil Bush"

    That does not sum it up.