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Wal-Mart Parody Site Censored by DMCA
davidwr writes "Wal-Mart used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to temporarily shut down a university student's parody of the Wal-Mart Foundation." The story's details are also available via BusinessWeek. From the article: "Papasian launched the Web site April 16 for an art class at Carnegie Mellon University called 'Parasitic Media.' The class teaches students about the political uses of satire in the media. He acknowledged using Wal-Mart's graphics on his Web site but said he believed he could use the images as part of a parody."
...ever get tired of their students kicking the same over-kicked puppy dogs? Is there any desire or reward for going against the left-wing groupthink that might naturally occur amongst art students? Won't many of them move on to providing layout and graphics for evil corporations? Doesn't this merely perpetuate the myth that no individual has personal responsibly for CHOOSING to shop at wal-mart, eat at McDonalds or believe in a mythical superbeing? Sounds like they're just producing another generation just as holier-than-thou and judgmental and unaccepting of personal choice as the right-wing idiots that infest our government.
Other Web sites designed by students for the class included a parody of a fitness campaign by the fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's Corp. and a site satirizing "700 Club," religious broadcaster Pat Robertson's television show.
Please remind me again what evil president instituted the Patriot Act about which the left continually gets worked up.
And what president gave us the DCMA, a law that actually affects citizens?
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