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Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers
An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Toyota's lawyers have recently contacted computer wallpaper site Desktop Nexus in a blatant example of DMCA abuse. Toyota issued a blanket request to demand the immediate removal of all member-uploaded wallpapers featuring a Toyota, Lexus, or Scion vehicle (citing copyright violation), regardless of whether Toyota legally holds the copyright to the photos or not. When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."
damn just be happy that your customers are sooo happy with your products that they celebrate it with making a wallpaper to put on their computers. i bet that toyota's lawyers are summers eve fanboi's
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In a related move, Toyoda has also served a DMCA take down notice to slashdot, demanding that all car related analogies be removed from comments by slashdot members.
You are stealing LIGHT, which is owned by Toyota, you copyright thief you!
What I'd like someone to do is to produce a DMCA takedown order for Toyota on a piece of clothing that is worn by an actor in one of Toyota's ads.
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Wait 5 minutes. I think I hear something stupider coming down the road.
Don't remove the images!
Simply hide the cars under a big "CENSORED BY TOYOTA".
What a hideous crimes people commit these days. Poor Toyota, they must have lost millions of dollars because of these wallpapers. I mean, publishing a song on the internet, ok, it's bad, but a whole car?! Don't these people have any sympathy for a poor carmaker?
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Invoiced to the tune of oNE BIIIILLION DOLLARs.
No, but they 'distribute' or offer to share them with the offender and the RIAA has said that that's good enough.
You can't hear a Prius from all the way down the road, silly.
I do not understand. Please use a car analogy.
You get served a notice by the FCC for operating an unlicensed device capable of receiving elements of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Who cares if this is a part of the "unregulated" section of the E/M spectrum.
Since there is a device that alters the E/M frequencies coming from this machine (aka the "paint" on the vehicle), you are in violation of other sections of the DMCA due to having an unauthorized device (the "camera") that circumvents the "anti-piracy" protection from obtaining the image in the first place.
Lexus is not just a car, it's a pile of shit made for pompous morons.
It's like if a person published some photos of cars, and the car manufacturer demanded that they be removed.
"remove all ads containing clothes"
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no you have him prosecuted for assault, serve him with a dmca/performance violation if he used the "staying alive" trick and then sue him for trespassing.
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he he he he he he.
Makes as much sense as Toyota's silly idea
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It happens like come on a car. A lot of people mistake it for bird shit, but only you know what happened last night between you and that stray dog.
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