It depends on how you "make available" the file for downloading. In most cases, the file you "make available" is not the original copy. In the course of making it available to be downloaded, it may have been illegally copied.
(This post isn't meant to imply that I approve of the RIAA's behavior in this matter, just to discuss if unapproved copying has already taken place before the file is downloaded to determine if it is a copyright protected work - a necessary step before any copyright infringement claim can be made.)
So will they now require that plumbers have a PI license so they can "find" a leak in your pipes? (What if he finds your stash under the sink while looking for the leak? Is this now an illegal search?) What about when your housekeeper uses a vacuum to "find" the dust bunnies under your bed? (And what if she finds your stash under the bed?)
I could go on all day... fixing any of those design problems would automatically improve accessibility, not just for blind users but for mobile devices as well.
Indeed, the mobile devices trend is probably going to "solve" this problem for blind users.
I have a custom CSS on Firefox. Combined with a custom hosts file, adblock, scriptblock, etc. add-ons, I haven't seen an interstitial ad in several years.
My computer, my choice what material I want to view. It's that simple.
This isn't about "money obsessed CEOs arguing". This is about major networks peering and exchanging data that their respective customers pay both networks to carry, send, and receive.
Cogent primarily hosts content, Telia primarily has eyeballs (ISP customers, end users). Both have customers who pay them for their respective internet services and access. Telia's customers expect Telia to deliver the content they request and pay for (the content hosted on Cogent servers, and other servers worldwide on the internet). Telia wants Cogent to pay Telia for the privilege of exchanging data - for Telia's customer's requests to travel from Telia's network to Cogent's network, and for the content those customer's requested to travel back from Cogent's network onto Telia's network.
Copyright only exists for writing that is "creative" in nature.
The text of a legal document sets forth a demand, a contract, etc. The writing is not creative, it is just a listing of facts or positions. I was told this by one of the top partners at WSGW (top legal firm in Silicon Valley) when he advised me to copy another company's contract. The formatting of the contract (e.g. the forms you can buy at a stationer's store or download pdfs online) is creative layout - you can't just photocopy the contract and use it as that is a copyright infringement. But if you want to make your own form with a different layout and using the exact same words, that is perfectly legal.
Of course, lawyers can CLAIM copyright on their legal documents, but that doesn't mean they are correct. Lawyers make false claims all the time, when it suits them or suits their case. Recently the RIAA made a claim that it is illegal to rip music from your own CDs to listen to that music on different devices that you own. In the 1974 Supreme Court ruling in Sony VS Universal Studios, this type of personal use copying was ruled as fair use, but that didn't stop the RIAA from making this new outrageous claim.
Can you cite what "Net Neutrality" law you believe they are violating?
A lot of people don't understand what the internet is. It is a network of networks. There is no entity that oversees the entire internet. This is something that is hard for many people to comprehend because in meatspace everything is controlled by "the government". Local (e.g. city/state/country) governmental laws only apply to the networks in that locality. Most internet traffic crosses one or more of these locality boundaries which makes it next-to-impossible to determine whose laws should apply to any given "infraction". In meatspace we have import/export laws, customs, tariffs, treaties, etc. There is no system to make any of those work on packets sent over the internet. This is why spam is so hard to stop - the spammer lives in one place, uses computers in another place, to send messages to people in yet a third place. Whose laws apply? It is extremely difficult to craft a law that works in real life.
As a result of how the internet is laid out and the lack of governance and laws, any given network (e.g. ISP X) CAN block any traffic they want. On any given network, the rule is my network, my rules. They don't answer to anyone except the other networks they exchange traffic with (their upstream providers, or their peers if they are a Tier 1 network with no upstream provider). If you don't like it, don't use that network: Get another ISP.
Comcast is in hot water not because they block file sharing traffic but because they accomplish this by sending forged packets. The FORGERY part is against the law - the blocking is not.
Networks routinely block traffic. Over 90% of all email traffic is spam - if they didn't block it your inbox would be flooded and email would be unusable.
Copyright law is going to be fundamentally changed by the internet - and there is simply nothing that the major "rights holders" (music and movie industry companies) can do about it. Look at the math - we have hundreds of millions of people who want the copyright laws eased, people who are thumbing their noses at existing copyright laws. And we have what - maybe 1 million people (copyright holders - people who are paid royalties from their copyright works) involved in the production of those copyright protected works? How do the copyright laws benefit the "average person"? Ultimately, the people's desire to have less restrictive copyright laws WILL be reflected in the law.
Copyright laws were enacted in a time when such laws were necessary to provide benefit to people who would not otherwise create these works and share them with others. The marketplace has changed. YouTube shows how readily people create content and share it freely with others without needing to be paid to produce these works, paid for their creativity.
The movie and music industry needs to come up with a new business model. The present model, that they can prevent people from copying and sharing movies and music is not, and will not, work in the future. No amount of agitating for new laws, no amount of trying to get internet companies to block file sharing, no amount of suing people is going to put this genie back in the bottle. The old system worked because they could control the distribution medium (the physical media such as the CD or DVD or video tape). Now they no longer control the media. In order for the movie or music to be played on a computerized system, it can be copied. Copy protection systems simply do not work.
My predictions:
In 10 years (or less) files will be exchanged over encrypted networks using random resenders (like a remailer system) - untrackable and unstoppable.
In 20 years (or less) copyright laws will be drastically amended to give citizens much greater rights.
jc
p.s. I've worked at ISPs and have an in-depth understanding of how the i
Sometimes the problem isn't the people, it is the software not working as well, not being as complete as they claim.
I'm making the switch to OO, but I'm constantly plagued with my files not being fully compatible with others using MS Office - if I had a free copy of MS Office I'd dump OO in a heart beat at this point. I created a database in OO and I'm totally stymied on how to *export* my data to another database - all of OO's "export" functions are really about how to export from other formats into OO formats. I can't find any support forums where anyone knows what I'm talking about - sure there are support forums for OO but just try asking a database related question and watch the thundering silence. At this point I'm about ready to just re-enter my data from scratch in the new database - it may ultimately prove faster than trying to figure out how to export the data from OO and then write a script to import it into the new database tables.
I'd love to be proven wrong about this. If anyone knows of an OO support forum where database questions are answered, please post, or send me a message. Thanks!
Something in Beta for three years should raise questions.
The problem with Google's "beta" offerings is that for the most part they aren't really "in beta", they are really abandoned. No one at Google is working on them. There are no new releases planned. They were worked on for a while until their creators got bored and moved on to other projects.
All these Google services have been in Beta for more than a year, have serious bugs, no support, and no signs of development:
Google Groups (since early 2001)
Google Catalogs (since January 2002)
Orkut (since January 2004)
Gmail (since April 2004)
I'm glad to see that someone on Wall Street is starting to take notice. Maybe this will shake things up at Google and get some action. I have 201,322 messages in the trash mailbox of my gmail account (stuck there since August of 2004 when I filled up my 1 GB allocation after just 4 months of use...) and I'd REALLY like the "messages that have been in Trash more than 30 days will be automatically deleted" function to operate as advertised. Deleting them 100 at a time (the only way to delete them manually) is not feasible.
Any contract term which is in violation of civil law is unenforcable. That's why we have civil laws, to protect people from being coerced into unfair contracts.
I've heard in the past that these types of clauses are generally unenforceable. Any lawyers care to chime in?
IANAL. My understanding is that the enforceability of this type of contract depends on the law in the state/country that the contract was signed in.
In California, non-compete contract clauses are usually invalid except in very specific cases such as when you sell your business and the clause is part of the sales contract. See:
Even then, the clause must be very limited, e.g. to not compete in the same industry in a small area surrounding your old business, for a limited time. If you sold a dry cleaner business in LA, the non-compete clause couldn't prohibit you from opening up a new one in Santa Barbara or SF, or from opening a new one in LA 2 years later. If you sold a business that sold computer games, the non-compete clause couldn't prohibit you from starting up a new business that sold non-game programs.
He observes that courts are more likely to apply inevitable disclosure, or enforce a non-compete agreement, if the former employee takes a position that's is similar to his or her previous job, particularly if the position pays considerably more than the old one even though the responsibilities are not very different.
"If an employee leaves company A where she was northeast regional sales manager and goes to company B as a regional sales manager in the southwest, a court might say she's not subject to a non-compete covenant or the inevitable disclosure doctrine," says Wells. "She might also be safe if she works for a company that's in a different kind of business. But if she's in a similar line of work the court may be suspicious."
He said concerns over that kind of outcome probably fueled a recent decision by Redmond, Washington-based Crossgain Corp. to ax about 25 percent of its employees, including the start-up's two founders and chief executive officer, in response to pressure from Microsoft. Crossgain develops Internet-based standards and tools for software developers and, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, the terminated individuals were all ex-Microsoft employees who had previously signed non-compete agreements with the Redmond-based giant.
jc
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I was shocked to know that there was a domain out there that I have never visited yet it's the fifth most popular out there.
Maybe you haven't heard about this "5th most popular internet domain in the US" because it's not actually in 5th place (no surprise there!).
below more popular sites like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, CNN, MSN,/. (at #35), IMDB, DSL Reports, Comcast, Fox News, NY Times, etc. Here's a list of the Netcraft top 100:
Pixmantec has announced that they have just released Version 1.1.2 of RawShooter essentials 2005. It is now available for download now their web site. This version primarily concentrates on providing support for the recently released Nikon D2x. (Emphasis added)
I have been using RSE extensively for the past week and it is FAR better than the tools available in PS CS. I haven't compared it with CS 2 which was just announced and is still in beta, I saw it demo'd last week - at the same demo where I was shown RSE. I'm thrilled with RSE and have no interest in shelling out yet more big bucks for the next/latest Photoshop.
I had a similar problem where one of my domains expired because the OpenSRS reseller's renewal process was broken. I called OpenSRS, they said to pick another OpenSRS reseller because since it was staying with the same registrar (OpenSRS) it could be transfered without the reseller's cooperation or ack, and without my having to pay the ex-reseller's renewal fee first.
I moved my domain to Domain Maniac. Stupid name but VERY friendly and clueful people who provide fast and excellent support both over the phone and via email. They got the domain assigned to their OpenSRS reseller account, I paid their modest renewal fee ($15 a year), and it was working again within the hour.
jc
At first, I thought of a Master's, but in my searches for a job, I've rarely (read: never) seen a Masters degree required.
Although very few job reqs state that a Master's degree is required this doesn't mean that a Master's degree isn't a valuable asset when evaluating job candidates. If a company has several candidates for a position and one has a Master's degree, the Master's is going to be a big plus for that candidate.
The best way to find out what type of further education would be most valuable to YOU is to interview people who are doing the type of work you want to be doing in 10-15 years. Ask them what education they have that A) enabled them to be hired for that job and B) best prepared them for that job. (These may not be the same thing.)
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Frankly, homeopathy works. Before you criticize, I am as baffled by it as you are. There is no reason it should work, but it does. And yes, there are studies.
Were these peer reviewed studies? Can you cite these studies? All I have found are sites like this one: Homeopathy Fails in the UK Again
I wonder, did he stick around the phone, or just set it up and watch from a distance?
s/he/they
The answer is "yes". The phone was up for a week, we stopped by periodically to work on it and see what people were doing, but we also spent a lot of time in camp or out and about on the playa.
Here is a link for those of you who want to see the phone and don't mind that these particular photos show people wearing clothes. (I'm curious how this website stands up to being slashdotted.:-)
In the AOL chat session, there was no such default recording
I use AIM (and Y!IM), and I don't use the AOL IM client (or the Yahoo! client either). The multi-protocol chat clients I use (Trillian and GAIM) have an option to log my chat sessions, and I have always turned this on when installing and configuring the client. I would no more use chat without loggging than use email without saving a copy of what I send and receive. As you can imagine, I have a huge archive of email, but being just plain text it's much smaller than my photo archive etc.
I don't think there was a dispute that all 4 hoofs are off the ground at one time in the canter/gallop. This is something that can be readily seen by the unaided eye when you watch horses gallop. This moment of suspension was well known by horsemen of the time and was written about in training books of that era.
The problem would have been one of determining if all 4 hoofs were off the ground at one time at the trot. See: http://cvm.msu.edu/dressage/articles/mcrep/mcrep12.htm
This definately scares me as a systems admin. Now if a mail server takes a dump (up to and including unavoidable acts of god) before someone is able to read that all-important email, they're now legally liable?
This is fscking nuts. Email is not a reliable means of delivering information. It's great when it works, but there's too many things that can throw a wrench in the works
This case isn't about some "accidental wrench in the works". It's about registering your official complaint email address with the copyright office, then intentionally setting that address to/dev/null and leaving it that way for months on end. That wasn't an accident, and AOL shouldn't be allowed to duck their reponsibility to act on copyright infringement complaints that were sent to the address in question and which their own logs show as received.
Slashdot Mirror
The only reason not to go with it is if you have some kind of objection to the company.
Or if you think relying on a "beta" service is a bad idea for your business email.
Gmail has been "in beta" for over 4 years. Sheesh guys, don't you ever finish and release anything?
It depends on how you "make available" the file for downloading. In most cases, the file you "make available" is not the original copy. In the course of making it available to be downloaded, it may have been illegally copied.
(This post isn't meant to imply that I approve of the RIAA's behavior in this matter, just to discuss if unapproved copying has already taken place before the file is downloaded to determine if it is a copyright protected work - a necessary step before any copyright infringement claim can be made.)
So will they now require that plumbers have a PI license so they can "find" a leak in your pipes? (What if he finds your stash under the sink while looking for the leak? Is this now an illegal search?) What about when your housekeeper uses a vacuum to "find" the dust bunnies under your bed? (And what if she finds your stash under the bed?)
I could go on all day... fixing any of those design problems would automatically improve accessibility, not just for blind users but for mobile devices as well.
Indeed, the mobile devices trend is probably going to "solve" this problem for blind users.
I have a custom CSS on Firefox. Combined with a custom hosts file, adblock, scriptblock, etc. add-ons, I haven't seen an interstitial ad in several years.
My computer, my choice what material I want to view. It's that simple.
jc
Cogent primarily hosts content, Telia primarily has eyeballs (ISP customers, end users). Both have customers who pay them for their respective internet services and access. Telia's customers expect Telia to deliver the content they request and pay for (the content hosted on Cogent servers, and other servers worldwide on the internet). Telia wants Cogent to pay Telia for the privilege of exchanging data - for Telia's customer's requests to travel from Telia's network to Cogent's network, and for the content those customer's requested to travel back from Cogent's network onto Telia's network.
This is not the first time another major network has tried this trick with Cogent. This happened between Level3 and Cogent, and Level3 had to back down.
jc
The text of a legal document sets forth a demand, a contract, etc. The writing is not creative, it is just a listing of facts or positions. I was told this by one of the top partners at WSGW (top legal firm in Silicon Valley) when he advised me to copy another company's contract. The formatting of the contract (e.g. the forms you can buy at a stationer's store or download pdfs online) is creative layout - you can't just photocopy the contract and use it as that is a copyright infringement. But if you want to make your own form with a different layout and using the exact same words, that is perfectly legal.
Of course, lawyers can CLAIM copyright on their legal documents, but that doesn't mean they are correct. Lawyers make false claims all the time, when it suits them or suits their case. Recently the RIAA made a claim that it is illegal to rip music from your own CDs to listen to that music on different devices that you own. In the 1974 Supreme Court ruling in Sony VS Universal Studios, this type of personal use copying was ruled as fair use, but that didn't stop the RIAA from making this new outrageous claim.
Can you cite what "Net Neutrality" law you believe they are violating?
A lot of people don't understand what the internet is. It is a network of networks. There is no entity that oversees the entire internet. This is something that is hard for many people to comprehend because in meatspace everything is controlled by "the government". Local (e.g. city/state/country) governmental laws only apply to the networks in that locality. Most internet traffic crosses one or more of these locality boundaries which makes it next-to-impossible to determine whose laws should apply to any given "infraction". In meatspace we have import/export laws, customs, tariffs, treaties, etc. There is no system to make any of those work on packets sent over the internet. This is why spam is so hard to stop - the spammer lives in one place, uses computers in another place, to send messages to people in yet a third place. Whose laws apply? It is extremely difficult to craft a law that works in real life.
As a result of how the internet is laid out and the lack of governance and laws, any given network (e.g. ISP X) CAN block any traffic they want. On any given network, the rule is my network, my rules. They don't answer to anyone except the other networks they exchange traffic with (their upstream providers, or their peers if they are a Tier 1 network with no upstream provider). If you don't like it, don't use that network: Get another ISP.
Comcast is in hot water not because they block file sharing traffic but because they accomplish this by sending forged packets. The FORGERY part is against the law - the blocking is not.
Networks routinely block traffic. Over 90% of all email traffic is spam - if they didn't block it your inbox would be flooded and email would be unusable.
Copyright law is going to be fundamentally changed by the internet - and there is simply nothing that the major "rights holders" (music and movie industry companies) can do about it. Look at the math - we have hundreds of millions of people who want the copyright laws eased, people who are thumbing their noses at existing copyright laws. And we have what - maybe 1 million people (copyright holders - people who are paid royalties from their copyright works) involved in the production of those copyright protected works? How do the copyright laws benefit the "average person"? Ultimately, the people's desire to have less restrictive copyright laws WILL be reflected in the law.
Copyright laws were enacted in a time when such laws were necessary to provide benefit to people who would not otherwise create these works and share them with others. The marketplace has changed. YouTube shows how readily people create content and share it freely with others without needing to be paid to produce these works, paid for their creativity.
The movie and music industry needs to come up with a new business model. The present model, that they can prevent people from copying and sharing movies and music is not, and will not, work in the future. No amount of agitating for new laws, no amount of trying to get internet companies to block file sharing, no amount of suing people is going to put this genie back in the bottle. The old system worked because they could control the distribution medium (the physical media such as the CD or DVD or video tape). Now they no longer control the media. In order for the movie or music to be played on a computerized system, it can be copied. Copy protection systems simply do not work.
My predictions:
jc
p.s. I've worked at ISPs and have an in-depth understanding of how the i
Sometimes the problem isn't the people, it is the software not working as well, not being as complete as they claim.
I'm making the switch to OO, but I'm constantly plagued with my files not being fully compatible with others using MS Office - if I had a free copy of MS Office I'd dump OO in a heart beat at this point. I created a database in OO and I'm totally stymied on how to *export* my data to another database - all of OO's "export" functions are really about how to export from other formats into OO formats. I can't find any support forums where anyone knows what I'm talking about - sure there are support forums for OO but just try asking a database related question and watch the thundering silence. At this point I'm about ready to just re-enter my data from scratch in the new database - it may ultimately prove faster than trying to figure out how to export the data from OO and then write a script to import it into the new database tables.
I'd love to be proven wrong about this. If anyone knows of an OO support forum where database questions are answered, please post, or send me a message. Thanks!
The problem with Google's "beta" offerings is that for the most part they aren't really "in beta", they are really abandoned. No one at Google is working on them. There are no new releases planned. They were worked on for a while until their creators got bored and moved on to other projects.
All these Google services have been in Beta for more than a year, have serious bugs, no support, and no signs of development:
I'm glad to see that someone on Wall Street is starting to take notice. Maybe this will shake things up at Google and get some action. I have 201,322 messages in the trash mailbox of my gmail account (stuck there since August of 2004 when I filled up my 1 GB allocation after just 4 months of use...) and I'd REALLY like the "messages that have been in Trash more than 30 days will be automatically deleted" function to operate as advertised. Deleting them 100 at a time (the only way to delete them manually) is not feasible.
jc
Believe it or not, often you can fix this by putting the keyboard thru the dishwasher!
r > for more details.
http://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+dishwashe
A) Make sure ALL the keys are firmly attached.
B) Make sure to remove it before the heat cycle, or use a "low heat" cycle, or perhaps try it on the top rack.
I am NOT responsible if your keyboard fails to work after you try this!
jc
Law trumps contract.
Any contract term which is in violation of civil law is unenforcable. That's why we have civil laws, to protect people from being coerced into unfair contracts.
No, no, no. It was a clue-by-four!
jc
That's cover-your-ass-speak for we screwed up but we will pass the buck and blame someone else for "stealing" your data.
IANAL. My understanding is that the enforceability of this type of contract depends on the law in the state/country that the contract was signed in.
In California, non-compete contract clauses are usually invalid except in very specific cases such as when you sell your business and the clause is part of the sales contract. See:
http://www.bmezine.com/news/legal/20040923.html
Even then, the clause must be very limited, e.g. to not compete in the same industry in a small area surrounding your old business, for a limited time. If you sold a dry cleaner business in LA, the non-compete clause couldn't prohibit you from opening up a new one in Santa Barbara or SF, or from opening a new one in LA 2 years later. If you sold a business that sold computer games, the non-compete clause couldn't prohibit you from starting up a new business that sold non-game programs.
Also see:
http://www.employlaw.com/noncompete.htm
In Washington, the law is not as favorable to employees. See:
http://www.workindex.com/editorial/whar/whar0110-
jc
Maybe you haven't heard about this "5th most popular internet domain in the US" because it's not actually in 5th place (no surprise there!).
Netcraft rates www.myspace.com at 76th worldwide:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.m
below more popular sites like Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, CNN, MSN,
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/stats/topsites?s=DA28
jc
See: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/new/index.shtml
Pixmantec has announced that they have just released Version 1.1.2 of RawShooter essentials 2005. It is now available for download now their web site. This version primarily concentrates on providing support for the recently released Nikon D2x. (Emphasis added)
A great review of RawShooter Essentials is at http://www.outbackphoto.com/artofraw/raw_18/essay
I have been using RSE extensively for the past week and it is FAR better than the tools available in PS CS. I haven't compared it with CS 2 which was just announced and is still in beta, I saw it demo'd last week - at the same demo where I was shown RSE. I'm thrilled with RSE and have no interest in shelling out yet more big bucks for the next/latest Photoshop.
Get RawShooter Essentials from Pixmantec at:
http://www.pixmantec.com/.
jc
I had a similar problem where one of my domains expired because the OpenSRS reseller's renewal process was broken. I called OpenSRS, they said to pick another OpenSRS reseller because since it was staying with the same registrar (OpenSRS) it could be transfered without the reseller's cooperation or ack, and without my having to pay the ex-reseller's renewal fee first. I moved my domain to Domain Maniac. Stupid name but VERY friendly and clueful people who provide fast and excellent support both over the phone and via email. They got the domain assigned to their OpenSRS reseller account, I paid their modest renewal fee ($15 a year), and it was working again within the hour. jc
At first, I thought of a Master's, but in my searches for a job, I've rarely (read: never) seen a Masters degree required.
Although very few job reqs state that a Master's degree is required this doesn't mean that a Master's degree isn't a valuable asset when evaluating job candidates. If a company has several candidates for a position and one has a Master's degree, the Master's is going to be a big plus for that candidate.
The best way to find out what type of further education would be most valuable to YOU is to interview people who are doing the type of work you want to be doing in 10-15 years. Ask them what education they have that A) enabled them to be hired for that job and B) best prepared them for that job. (These may not be the same thing.)
Frankly, homeopathy works. Before you criticize, I am as baffled by it as you are. There is no reason it should work, but it does. And yes, there are studies.
Were these peer reviewed studies? Can you cite these studies? All I have found are sites like this one: Homeopathy Fails in the UK Again
I wonder, did he stick around the phone, or just set it up and watch from a distance?
s/he/they
The answer is "yes". The phone was up for a week, we stopped by periodically to work on it and see what people were doing, but we also spent a lot of time in camp or out and about on the playa.
Here is one story about using the phone.
Here is a link for those of you who want to see the phone and don't mind that these particular photos show people wearing clothes. (I'm curious how this website stands up to being slashdotted. :-)
jc
In the AOL chat session, there was no such default recording
I use AIM (and Y!IM), and I don't use the AOL IM client (or the Yahoo! client either). The multi-protocol chat clients I use (Trillian and GAIM) have an option to log my chat sessions, and I have always turned this on when installing and configuring the client. I would no more use chat without loggging than use email without saving a copy of what I send and receive. As you can imagine, I have a huge archive of email, but being just plain text it's much smaller than my photo archive etc.
I don't think there was a dispute that all 4 hoofs are off the ground at one time in the canter/gallop. This is something that can be readily seen by the unaided eye when you watch horses gallop. This moment of suspension was well known by horsemen of the time and was written about in training books of that era. The problem would have been one of determining if all 4 hoofs were off the ground at one time at the trot. See: http://cvm.msu.edu/dressage/articles/mcrep/mcrep12 .htm
This case isn't about some "accidental wrench in the works". It's about registering your official complaint email address with the copyright office, then intentionally setting that address to