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.

Comments

Re:bullcrap

[Thanshin]

I think this is an abuse of the DMCA

You think?

I'm sorry but, with all my respect and staying moderate, did you even consider the thought of this not being an abuse? Maybe I misinterpreted your tone but it sounded like someone witnessing a hit and run and stating "That may have been somehow wrong".

If even we had doubts about such clear actions how could we blame the general public from not screaming against ridiculous laws?

whats-in a word/search?

[Anonymous Coward]

talk about false advertising (while .controlling all the major 'billboards' in the wwworld)? which (added) word makes it all too real? new word today; statesponsoredspiracy, n false advertising.

google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=bush+cheney+wolfowitz+rumsfeld+wmd+oil+blair+obama+weather+authors

Fucking Magnets,

[Anonymous Coward]

How do they work?

MOD PARENT DOWN

[Anonymous Coward]

My opinion: you're a douche. Respect it.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[Pojut]

My opinion: back of the hand. Respect it.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN

[Runaway1956]

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.

This why I hate the iPad

[tekrat]

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.