For the longest time, Brian Bull, the author of "Day of the Barney" and all its sequels, kept the writing up. He was one of the first threatened by this all the way in the summer of 2000.
I am one of the webmasters of JihadWeb (www.jihad.net). We got ours right before Christmas 2000 (which caused a great deal of hilarity when it was realized they forgot to change their date, thus we had to be in compliance as of Jan 3rd, 2000.)
As you can see, we're still making fun of Barney, but I gotta admit that it was scary to have a C&D in my emailbox (we NEVER got a snail mail copy of the letter, though). It's now six months later and they still haven't come after us yet.
We'll see. It's dangerous times to be a B'harnee hater.
Re:Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (US-based)
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f you want to do something for an organization that is not a policy-based group (like EFF), may I suggest Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic? RFBD is a group in the United States which - using volunteer labor - records books and other written material so that blind and dyslexic people can have access to the same information.
I have to concur. My dad is dyslexic, and gets his college textbooks on tape from RFBD. My father is an intelligent man; he self taught himself enough to become a sysadmin at a place in town, but it can take months for him to get through one book. With the recording, he can hear what may be confusing him in his textbook, and they sent it to him free of charge. Without this, my dad would be hopelessly lost in his classes. With it, he's actually learning in a semester's worth of time. The folks at RFBD do good work, and they've made it so my dad can take classes without falling hideously hopelessly behind.
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For the longest time, Brian Bull, the author of "Day of the Barney" and all its sequels, kept the writing up. He was one of the first threatened by this all the way in the summer of 2000.
I am one of the webmasters of JihadWeb (www.jihad.net). We got ours right before Christmas 2000 (which caused a great deal of hilarity when it was realized they forgot to change their date, thus we had to be in compliance as of Jan 3rd, 2000.)
As you can see, we're still making fun of Barney, but I gotta admit that it was scary to have a C&D in my emailbox (we NEVER got a snail mail copy of the letter, though). It's now six months later and they still haven't come after us yet.
We'll see. It's dangerous times to be a B'harnee hater.
I have to concur. My dad is dyslexic, and gets his college textbooks on tape from RFBD. My father is an intelligent man; he self taught himself enough to become a sysadmin at a place in town, but it can take months for him to get through one book. With the recording, he can hear what may be confusing him in his textbook, and they sent it to him free of charge. Without this, my dad would be hopelessly lost in his classes. With it, he's actually learning in a semester's worth of time. The folks at RFBD do good work, and they've made it so my dad can take classes without falling hideously hopelessly behind.
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