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Lawsuit Invokes DMCA to Force DRM Adoption
TechnicolourSquirrel writes "Forbes.com informs us that the company Media Rights Technologies is suing Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and Real Networks for not using its DRM technology and therefore 'failing to include measures to control access to copyrighted material.' The company alleges that their refusal to use MRT's X1 Recording Control technology constitutes a 'circumvention' of a copyright protection system, which is of course illegal under the Digital Millenium Copryight Act. I would say more, but without controlling access to this paragraph with MRT's products, I fear I have already risked too much ..."
... ignore something so customer friendly and inviting as DCE!!!
Hax-fu?
It won't work. Even if you don't say anything, you're "failing to include measures to control access" and thus "constitut[ing] a circumvention of a copy protection system." -Loyal
I aim to misbehave.
I think it's about the right time for me to file suit against Media Rights Technologies for not employing me at a salary of $10,000,000/year to refill their coke machines. Because of their unwillingness to hire me as a coke machine filler, their machines are dreadfully low, who knows how many people could become thirsty as a direct result..!!
Some companies really have no conscience.
MABASPLOOM!
Dead people being sued for not living.
Note to self: take out copyrights on pig latin, ROT13, and substituting "no" for "yes" in responses to women who ask if their butts look big in those jeans...
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Next up: Dostoevsky scholars denied access to source materials because they couldn't not think of a white bear.
They're just taking a page from Diebold v. Massachusettes...
Does this mean SCO can sue IBM for not including their copyrighted code in Linux?
Oh, thank God! Now I can repurpose a hundred thousand neurons I've dedicated to making sure I never click on that link. I feel smarter already!
I'm safe from these lawsuits.
Absolutely everything I produce (including this post) is encrypted with 26 rounds of a sophisticated encryption algorithm known as ROT13. Sometimes, when I'm feeling particularly concerned about the value of the IP I'm producing, I'll apply 32 or even 64 rounds of this algorithm!
I am afraid, however, that by decrypting this post, you are in violation of the DMCA. See you in court suckers!
Ian Ameline
I'd help you out with the president, but my guns all have Digital Rifle Management.
Note to DoD, DHS, etc: the above statement is a joke. I do not intend to shoot the president and do not condone criminal behavior. Your Mooninite Scare lawsuits will not touch me.
Shouldn't they be sending out Commence and Continue letters?
By the way, I'm going to start suing random people for not buying products that I'm going to invent, because those products would be really good and would help them a lot. You've all been warned!
I can't help thinking of the judge reaching under his desk, and pulling a lever, dropping a 16 ton weight on the plaintiff and his lawyer.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
This company has cent cease and desist letters.
Wow, where can I get lawyers that cheap?
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i fixed your sig... and stole it :P
Don't call me back. Give me a call back. Bye. So yeah. But bye our, well, but alright we are on a shirt this chill.
Martha! Fetch up the chainsaw! We got us a legal problem needs fixin.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
.. there sueing some if not the biggest names in the industry, Its like Some kid trying to fight super man, batman, wonderwoman(MS), and the hulk all at once. They are going to get stopmed into the ground if this goes to court.
Er, I mean:
Have gnu, will travel.
This is totally wrong, however. What should happen is:
Judge: The court finds in favor of the defendant on account of the plaintiffs being a bunch of twits, and bringing a totally baseless and frivolous lawsuit which has wasted our time here. Case against the defendant is dismissed, however, I'm awarding a $10 million punitive judgment against the plaintiffs, to be paid to the defendant, and plaintiffs must also pay court costs. This hearing is adjourned.
Judge: Bailiff, please escort the plaintiffs out. If you accidentally beat them with your nightstick, I'll understand.