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Google's Information On DMCA Takedown Abuse
Binestar writes "According to a PC World article, Google has submitted a brief to New Zealand about its proposed copyright law (section 92A). "In its submission, Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims.""
37% of total notices. The same people who go to the emergency room for belly button lint and call 911 when McDonald's is out of "chicken" mcnuggets probably file a DMCA letter at google when their friends draw a penis on their facebook wall.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
U r right, it really dusnt matter how u spell. Its not like their are standards to maintain. Or that its just plane irritating to sea.
(Pedants aside, a large proportion of Slashdot readers are programmers whose brains sound an alarm bell when a sentence doesn't parse correctly.)
Good point. I never thought of things that way- it's just needless formatting. I mean, taking things one step further now, I guess it doesn't really matter if you don't
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Edit: Even the filter won't let me post sentences like this without putting in some junk.
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I get that wrong all the time even though I'm fully aware that the possessive of "it" is "its". It's not that I'm bad at English, I just don't give a fuck about that particular apostrophe.
In fact, if it wasn't for the squiggly red lines I wouldn't care to correct my mistyping. I just can't stand those awful squiggles, it's like they're Satan rising up from ashes to haunt me with the terror of a thousand mad-libs...
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
Now show me one sentence where the meaning becomes different depending on which way you spell it(')s. Any sentence. Don't have one? Still feel like you know something important?
I feel it's nuts.
Have you ever copied sheet music by hand? It's a pain in the ass.
You're doing it wrong.
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And believe you me, it was not easy finding a way of phrasing that that gave me the opportunity to mess them both up. =P
is businesses targeting their own customers - RIAA and MPAA.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!