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FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA

Posted by timothy on from the news-of-the-nutty dept.

nospmiS remoH writes "Wired is running an article about a guy with no money making furniture out of FedEx boxes. If that weren't strange enough, FedEx is going after him, legally citing the DMCA. Yes, the DMCA. Apparently they are not upset about the furniture itself but rather this site that he put up with pictures of his creations (pretty good work really). My favorite quote from the article, '...Avila clearly intended to operate a business from his website because he used the .com domain suffix, the "commercial level domain," rather than .net.' You just can't make this stuff up."

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  1. NEWS FLASH!!! by SquiggleButt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man in Redkneck, USA patents flatulance, sues Tom, Dick and Harry for farting in public without paying license fees!!! Movie at 11!

  2. White Spot by Rac3r5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A friend of mine had been working for whiteSpot for about 5 or 6 yrs as a server.

    He was studying comp sci with me. In his first yr, he made a Duke Nukem Map with the whiteSpot logo in one of the maps.

    Anyway, he forgot about this. In our fourth year, he informs me that whiteSpot just fired him on the spot because of the map. They didn't ask him to take it down or anything. They just fired him. He showed me some screenShots of the map, and it didn't seem like he was defaming whiteSpot. To me it looked more like free, unintended advertising for whiteSpot.

    Pretty sh1tty deal if you ask me.