MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error

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MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on Human Error

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 6, 2004 @07:55PM 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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Valgrind it! by MavEtJu · 2004-10-06 21:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic

while Grind refers to a download of Valgrind, a tool for developers to locate memory management. It is a download which chews up less than 1 megabyte of memory.

Now if they used valgrind on that download application, they could get rid of that memory leak of (less than) one megabyte.

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Re:"Bad Day"? WTF by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 21:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You called them "cunts". On Slashdot. Yay! My hero.
Re:Multiple paragraphs on the front page? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 21:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well... duh!
Re:Mail Delivery by Penis; it's the way of the fut by bhima · 2004-10-06 22:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Hah!!
Well that predated the Star Wars prequels and I remember a lot more blushing and stammering that "hey cool chick"
But the machine is fast and has enough moving parts to be interesting.
"Hentai-anime Delivery Bots", how interesting I only have a stoner dude that delivers my mail on bicycle.

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Re:Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 23:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic

As one of the /. spelling Nazis, it gives me great pleasure to inform you that you can. You even spelt it correctly

Yet you didn't notice the misplaced apostrophe in "get's"?

Shame.
Re:Human error by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-06 23:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

All the worlds problems are caused by human error it would be a much more stable place without them.
Hey robot, you left out the comma between "human error" and "it would". Good luck on the AI thing.
Re:Auto-Generated Fake Warez Movie Site by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-07 00:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Hey, your Holy Grail link is dead !
Re:Congratulations by evslin · 2004-10-07 01:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yet you didn't notice the misplaced apostrophe in "get's"?

That's what the grammar Nazis are for.
Re:Maybe.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-07 02:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

>You live in a democracy, right? Right?

The rest of you may live in a democracy. I live in America :-(.