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NFL Caught Abusing the DMCA
Implied Oral Consent writes "You know how the NFL puts up those notices before every game saying 'This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience, and any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions or accounts of the game without the NFL's consent is prohibited?' Well, Ars Technica is reporting that Wendy Seltzer thought that that was over-reaching and posted a video of the notice on YouTube. Predictably, the NFL filed a DMCA Take Down notice on the clip. But Ms. Seltzer knows her rights, so she filed a DMCA Counter Notice. This is when the NFL violated the DMCA, by filing another Take Down notice instead of taking the issue to court — their only legitimate option, according to the DMCA. Unfortunately for the NFL, Ms. Seltzer is a law professor, an EFF lawyer, and the founder of Chilling Effects. Oops!"
Zebra adjusts volume on belt controller....
"10 yards for Illegal Procedure by the offense, replay first down"
Heck, you could post any random sentence to your weblog and be inadvertently quoting John Madden's commentary during a football game.
I'd marry her too, except I think it would upset my wife and eight kids.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Copyright your DNA, and send a DMCA notice to your wife forcing her to delete or surrender the kids as unauthorized derivative works of your exclusive intellectual property.
Then move in with Miss Seltzer.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
For a picture of her go to http://icannwiki.org/Wendy_Seltzer.
Shes actually not bad looking and when you take into account that she is a techie and on the good guy's side that's like +10 to charisma or something.
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
You gotta be joking! You'd last about 10 minutes, whenever you left the toilet seat up you'd be so wrapped up in litigation that you'd be lucky if you ever peed again!
What is wrong with you people?
You must be new here.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Exec: "Hey found this on Utube, man, kill it!!"
Lawyer: "Sir, yes, Sir" {emails DMCA takedown}
Lawyer: "WTF... !! Sir, they issued a counter takedown!"
Exec: "What the hell is that?"
Lawyer: "I'm not sure it has never happened before, it must be a mistake, I'll just email the takedown notice again... Maybe I should look up this DMCA in one of those big books I have in my office"
"Know thine enemy"
I wasn't aware that Sun Tsu spoke archaic English.
If you copyright your DNA you will have the greatest euphemism for masturbation so far: "exercising my intellectual property rights."
This is not my sandwich.