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US Air Force Issues DMCA Takedown Notice

Posted by kdawson on from the above-all dept.

palegray.net writes "Threat Level brings us the story of the US Air Force's use of the DMCA to forcibly remove a 'Cyber Command' recruitment video that they had previously thanked Threat Level for running. The article notes that US government works are not even subject to copyright, but this fact didn't stop YouTube from caving and taking down the video."

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  1. New Air Force Tactic? by Philotic · · Score: 5, Funny

    According to a leaked memo from the Department of Defense, the Air Force may begin dropping DMCA take down notices on Iranian nuclear facilities as early as next week.

  2. I could see it... by Adambomb · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Stop reverse engineering the plutoniums and uraniums, you knobs! Thats copy protected methodology you're trying to gather so that you get at least as much clout as north korea in world affairs as well as efficient long term power generation! Stop that.".

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  3. Re:I don't get it by Don_dumb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apart from that, I wonder why the Air Force is so keen on keeping people from watching their commercial. Because we can't have the terrorists copying them.
    - it's best to keep these recruitment videos classified.
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    If this were really happening, what would you think?
  4. Indeed. by Dopamine,+Redacted · · Score: 3, Funny

    After all, the nuclear configuration is like a "lock" that protects the "vault" of energy within the atom. Hitting that nucleus with a fast neutron (or a slow neutron if fizzle enough) is like "breaking into that vault" to "steal" the energy - right out of the matter. That's why we need protection for energy stored under nuclear "locks" to be just as strong as the laws that protect DVD movies.

  5. Re:Brilliant use of the streisand effect! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nowadays, the popular term for this phenomenon is "Streisand Effect", after what happened when Barbara Streisand sued researchers who were photographing the entire California coastline to document coastal erosion. Hence the subject of the post "Brilliant use of the streisand effect!" You didn't think it was mere coincedence that he chose that as the title did you?
  6. Re:Brilliant use of the streisand effect! by jc42 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, yeah, but I thought that enough readers might not be familiar with the effect that a link to the wikipedia page would be useful. And that page makes mention of the famous Daniella Cicarelli sex video, which will further divert /. readers for the 10 minutes or so that it'll take to find it, download it and watch it.

    Fun stuff.

    (Besides, whoever reads article titles? Isn't that as bad as reading the articles?)

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  7. Where I can see this Video? by rkwasny · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this video available somewhere? I wonder what was so special about it