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MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error
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."
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
What is this? A change in policy on Slashdot. This can only be for the worse. I am very angry. Rabble rabble rabble (or something).
Sure they have 100.000 monkeys
MPAA vowes to eliminate any posibilty of human error on their next "mailing" by incorporating high tech tools that will seek out and verify the violations using descriptive meta-data and file naming system. Furthermore any attempts to circumvent this proccess will be dealt with in a strict and obscure manner. We reccomend that you check your current library against known copyrighted work unless you want to get pwnd.
Thank you.
Everyone knows Linux Australia are pirating Unix on a massive scale and owe Eleventy Billion Dollars to SCO for every piece of intellectual property downloaded. MPAA is just doing their duty for the owners IP everywhere.
If that's so, I would be happy to serve any Adult Movie Industry Association for such antipiracy purposes.
I'm certainly no fan of the MPAA, but maybe it might not be a bad idea to give them the benefit of the doubt... this time (then when it happens again everyone can really lay into them full throttle).
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
MPAA: OMG! You're downloading movies you evil pirate! Why?! STOP IMMEDIATELY!!
Me: Human error. Watch. *Click* - OOPS! Finger slipped!
.. in the subtitles^Wextortion^Wnotices.
Those responsible have been sacked.
learn from yesterday, plan for tomorrow, party tonight
or one out of three ain't bad
I can imagine it
Trolling using another account since 2005.
"We accused an innocent group of copyright infringment and threatened a lawsuit, wasting a bunch of people's time and possibly money and causing much emotional suffering, but we're vewy vewy sorry.
That makes it OK, right?"
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
the answer is a simple human error
Yep, some simple humans made an error.
All the worlds problems are caused by human error it would be a much more stable place without them. In 50 years we should have good enough AI to be able to code ourselves and we can dispose of our carbon based masters.
Maybe it should be... Just look what the world is coming to... It said "Insert disk 3" but only 2 fit.
All men can fly, but sadly, only in one direction--Down.
We don't even have WMDs, nor do we have assassinations of our country's leaders. What makes you think piracy would be any different ;)
Now as you can see, our legal department consists of many people. After all we need a lot of man power to send out all those threathening letters.
Now, today, Sue here has a bad day. Tomorrow it will be Janet's turn, and the day after it will be Margaret's turn. See that chart over there? Yeah.. we are pretty well organised.
It just so happens that everybody has a bad day. And since our legal department is all women, what if they have a bad day once a month?
These errors are just due to human errors.
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
it took her longer to decide not to go out with me than to process the mail...
Wow! So you said...
"Hey, uh, groovy chick. What say we, uh... check out Star Wars Episode II and maybe we can... have sex?"
And in the split second it took her to reply
"Stay away from me, you Slashdot reading geek-fiend!"
and run out of the building, she was able to prepare the mailing?
I am impressed.
On a side-note, the grandparent mentions delivering letters by hand. Well, I sometimes get charity junk-mail (through my front door) that says stuff like
"Delivered by hand to save money".
Really? That's impressive. My mail is normally delivered by hi-tech robots with penis-shaped tentacles that use suction to hold the letters in place while they deliver them.
Absolutely true; I get nostalgic for the days when the postman used to put them through my letterbox using his hands, but the Post Office prefer to waste money with the latest "Hentai-anime Delivery Bots". Disgraceful.
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Dear Anonymous Coward,
According to our web monkey (#134723 known as Eric),
your post contains URL(s) to copyrighted material.
Our gaggle of lawyers informs us that this is ver, very, very, bad. We ask that you remove the offending links immediately and replace them with high-quality flash banner ads that inform the young people to say no to P2P.
Yours Sincerely
Matt Grossman
No, but I can believe that you didn't manually check all 15 words for legitimate spellings.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I suppose that BEING A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES could be construed as a form of human error.
But the machine is fast and has enough moving parts to be interesting.
Rather like the Hentai-anime Delivery Bots, then?
"Slashdot - News and Chat Sites Deviant". (Click "homepage" link above for details).
Sure they have 100.000 monkeys
They are rented monkeys from the RIAA, so they use RIAA math, its just two monkeys but they are really really really fast.
If what you are reading sounds funny, or sarcastic, lame, or stupid
it is because it is supposed to be. just laugh
You sez:
.... they have nine monkeys.
"They are rented monkeys from the RIAA,
so they use RIAA math, its just two monkeys
but they are really really really fast."
Nah
Two doing the math, and the rest trying to screw in the bulb.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
How do you fit 7 monkeys inside a light bulb?
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Well, heck, there seem to be a few music files among all these tens of thousands of files on my computer...you honestly don't expect me to look at each one to check if it should be there or not, do you? ;-)
:-)
Geez, guess those music files are there by 'human error'. So we'll just call it even, eh?
Cars that speed themselves up, MPAA sending out false accusations, fradulent voting machines, OS/X running on an Xbox... Madness!