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Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars
An anonymous reader writes "Zen Magnets, a maker of neodymium magnet toys, has been under assault by the much larger and better distributed Buckyballs, maker of a nearly identical toy. After Zen Magnets listed a couple of eBay auctions with a set of Buckyballs and a set of their own, asking customers to decide which was of higher quality, Buckyballs replied with a legal threat. Zen Magnets countered with an open video response, in which they presented the voicemail from Buckyballs and demonstrated their claims of quality through repeatable, factual tests, providing quantitative data to back up their assertions. Soon after, Buckyballs CEO Jake Bronstein got the video taken down from YouTube via a DMCA takedown, despite the fact that the only elements not made by Zen Magnets are the voicemail he left and some images of himself, which are low-resolution and publicly available online. Zen Magnets has decided to file a counter-takedown notice — not effective yet apparently, since the video is still marked as taken down." Slashdot's sister company ThinkGeek sells Buckyballs. No, we don't get kickbacks, but we totally should.
Update: 09/23 13:23 GMT by KD : Reader Coopjust (872796) points out one place where the disputed video has been mirrored.
Update: 09/23 13:23 GMT by KD : Reader Coopjust (872796) points out one place where the disputed video has been mirrored.
My opinion: back of the hand. Respect it.
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Because it "trains" us to be passive consumers of media on the internet.
As a result, we'll see more and more, that the internet is going to be controlled by a few big companies, and it will be become TV all over again, where THEY decide what we get to watch, what we get to read, and everything else will be censored, unaccessible, and when "pirates" even try to post their own material (remember when "pirate" radio was about broadcasting? Amazing how big media uses that word for *everything*...), they will be taken down, usually with cops bursting through their door to confiscate their illegal servers.
You think I'm crazy, but trust me, in 20 years, this won't seem so far fetched.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
My opinion, this AC is the dirt in the douche bottle that made the lady just throw the bottle away and do without the douche.
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