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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:In their defense.... by Thiago+Ize · · Score: 2, Informative

    But this has happened before. I remember way back when they started this whole charade they accused some lady using a mac that she was pirating music using a program that only works on windows...

    No, I'm afraid this has happened too many times already.

  2. Human error? THEY ARE LYING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is what, the 100,000th incorrect 'copyright infringement' notice that's been sent out? And they claim it to be human error? Proof that they are FULL OF SHIT - this was received by someone at a board I frequent. Keep in mind this is a board where the topic is emulator-assisted videogame speed runs. Excerpts, since apparently in posting the whole thing I was using too many "junk" characters (the fuck?):
    We have received information that you are providing Internet or Usenet access to the above
    referenced account holder, or hosting the above referenced Internet site, which has made
    available the download or streaming of copyrighted motion picture(s) including such title(s)
    as:

    SPEED

    Infringement Detail:
    Infringing Work: SPEED
    Filepath: supermetroid-speedrunv3-frenom-avi.torrent/
    Filen ame: supermetroid-speedrunv3-frenom.avi
    First Found: 6 Sep 2004 00:29:14 EDT (GMT -0400)
    Last Found: 6 Sep 2004 00:29:14 EDT (GMT -0400)
    Filesize: 182,426k
    IP Address: (removed)
    IP Port: 26887
    Network: BTPeers
    Protocol: BitTorrent
    If that's not patternmatching then they're hiring retards to send these notices out. I'm betting on robots.
  3. Re:Just check by hand. by bhima · · Score: 3, Informative
    A few years ago I was getting to know a nice young lass in marketing. One afternoon she was preparing a mailing to some segment of our customers which literaly took up 7 US Post mailing bins. She was using an automated folder, stuffer, address labeler and sealer (all in one device that would fit on you desk) and it took her longer to decide not to go out with me than to process the mail...

    So no, I don't think it would be eaiser or cheaper.

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  4. Re:Human Error ? Everyone has a bad day ? by mrdaveb · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's an ominous line that HAL says in "2001: A Space Odyssey"

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  5. Well MPAA can just pay penalties by rfc1394 · · Score: 4, Informative
    U.S. Federal law specifies penalties for false or fraudulent takedown notices. Since these are sworn under penalty of perjury that the person who did so had a good-faith belief, this was obviously false and perjurous in nature.

    Since the MPAA thinks a $3,000 to $11,000 judgement is acceptable for someone accused of 'stealing' music, then I suppose a $3,000,000 to $11,000,000 judgement is acceptable for someone from MPAA accused of fraud and perjury. I figure MPAA is at least 1,000 times the size of the average file swapper.

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  6. Re:Unsolicited emails... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ordinary citizens and corporations do not get to appoint themselves as court officials. There is good reason for this.

  7. Re:"Bad Day"? WTF by Lumpy · · Score: 1, Informative

    As I would be if I nailed the Smith pooch, even by accident, and be forced to pay restitution appropriate

    actually, if you hit someone's dog with your car and kill it, the dog owner is responsible to pay for damage to your car caused by their unleashed dog.

    It's the pet owner's responsibility to keep their animal under control and out of the way of cars and others.

    Anyways, it takes very little to thwart these *iaa morons. reverse the text,rot13,etc the filename and their search devices will only detect false positives.

    Hell, taking one of the spam email harvester poisioner scripts and rewrite it to give pages fill of "links" to movie and song names that are not real. get yourself 30,000 suponeas in one day for fun and profit!

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