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Alex Bradbury writes "Members of the Bits of Freedom group conducted a test to see how much it would take for a service provider to take down a website hosting public domain material, and have published their results. They signed up with 10 providers and put online a work by Dutch author Multatuli, who died over 100 years ago. They stated that the work was in the public domain, and that it was written in 1871. They then set up a fake society to claim to be the copyright holders of the work. From a Hotmail address, they sent out complaints to all 10 of the providers. 7 out of 10 complied and removed the site, one within just 3 hours. Only one ISP actually pointed out that the copyright on the work expired many years ago. The conclusion of the investigation is definitely worth reading. The three providers who didn't take down the material are XS4ALL, UPC and Freeler. The company that came out the worst was iFast, who forwarded all the personal details of the site owner to the sender of the fake takedown notice without even being asked to do so."
Dear Slashdot,
My great great grandfather had a newspaper in Lizard Lick, NC back at the turn of the century. I was called "The Lizard Lick Slash/Dot".
Please remove your site from the internet as it's in violation of copyright.
As you may know, the Slash/Dot moved it's headquarters from Lizard Lick to Bugfart, Iowa back in the 40's, just after the war. It's publisher, Mavis Leetdudzki also was the town buggerer and notary public.
Thanks.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
I think everybody missed the real test here,
the test is which company is the most helpfull to people sending notices to sites and its obvious that iFast is the most helpful,
Now all I have to do is tell ALL my friends to go with them, iFast will like all the extra business its the least I can do for such a helpful company...
"WebTV: bringing the Internet into the shallow end of the gene pool since 1995" - Martin Bishop
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Living in Texas, I'm not sure what constitutes `Texan-style private ISP justice'. Perhaps Sjoera Nas could explain?
Isn't that where the ISP comes to your house to shoot you when they receive a DMCA take-down notice?I'd say it would be a shot at Bush for his preemptive strike on Iraq based on faulty intelligence.
1) DirtFire
2) ICame (sexually)
3) FireFromMe
4) DirtArrived
Pick your favourite. I prefer the number 2.
Currently an ISP risk paying a huge fine under the European Guideline for Electronic Trade if they don`t remove copyrighted materials (if they can reasonably know it's copyrighted).
I see. You guys just need to pass a DMCA like we have here in the US.
but I love the "Texan-style private ISP justice"! Biased against Texas... or maybe just Bush. ;-) /no flame intended.
This is probably the most exposure that Multatuli has had in 100 years. I believe that in parts of Europe they refer to Fair Trade coffee as Max Havelaar coffee though.