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."

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[jb.hl.com]

So Slashdot has started posting multi-line story summaries now?

Good. Better idea than just having a stupid little "Read More" link on everything for 2k of text; even on modem that's a pissy amount of downloading.

Good idea, Taco.

Bad day?

[mwvdlee]

So the bad day of their guy is good excuse enough to threaten some innocent group?

I wonder how many innocent australians were screwed over and lost their site just because that idiot working at MPAA got out of bed with the wrong foot.

This is like kicking the shit out of some random person just because you feel like it and then claiming "oh, sorry about that, I thought you were somebody else"; it still makes you a bad guy.