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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.""

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  1. Re:Are those overlapping percentages? by larry+bagina · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  2. Re:Note to summary writer... by michaeldot · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.)

  3. Re:Note to summary writer... by Aphoxema · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  4. Re:Note to summary writer... by StarsAreAlsoFire · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:In Ancient Times by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever copied sheet music by hand? It's a pain in the ass.

    You're doing it wrong.

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  6. Re:Note to summary writer... by artor3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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