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NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown
derekmead writes "NASA's livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars was practically as flawless as the landing itself. But NASA couldn't prepare for everything. An hour or so after Curiosity's 1.31 a.m. EST landing in Gale Crater,the space agency's main YouTube channel had posted a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. Ten minutes later, the video was gone, replaced with the message: 'This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.' That is to say, a NASA-made video posted on NASA's official YouTube channel, documenting the landing of a $2.5 billion Mars rover mission paid for with public taxpayer money, was blocked by YouTube because of a copyright claim by a private news service."
Why do you assume its a fraudulent take-down?
How the fuck would Scripps Media have a valid copyright claim in the least over something from NASA's livestream?
And no, your example would NOT be justified.
Your opinion of the law, as you may or may not realize, has absolutely no bearing on the law, unless you happen to be a Supreme Court judge.
Slashdot is famous for its knee-jerk reactions. This one happens to be one -- as the article said, the takedown was a result of Google's automated scanning, not some nefarious bad guy lurking at Scripps *and* it'd already been fixed before the article was even posted! And in just as many cases, people get all hot and bothered over something like this and it turns out it was a valid DMCA takedown. In those cases, the fact is that the law is the law. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending its not is just being ignorant. If you don't like the law, change the law. Don't be a moron about it.
No... let's keep using it, but let's use it in our OWN context, where we MEAN let's kill all the lawyers, because we have OTHER reasons than did Shakespeare's character, because OUR lawyers have basically hamstrung our society, crippled our technology, retarded our advancement, and saddled us with more bad law than good law.
You're entitled to an opinion, but if you quote Shakespeare out-of-context to express it, then you wind up looking like a pretentious idiot.
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