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Send mail and I will send you my Canadian address for service. Oh, and, before you do, you might want to check to see if the Digital Millennium Copyright Act applies in Canada.
Read more at Boing Boing. Those take down notices sure are effective….
Update: Well, that is one dead little bit of code….Here’s what DIGG did after pulling the posts containing the code.
What this snippet of code was designed to do was preserve the business model of the movie biz. Now they are going to have to think again. Sadly this will cost them several millions of dollars. Their net unsavvy lawyers basically blew the game by demanding that big blogs and others take down notice that the proverbial cat was out of the bag. Surely the divx hack could have taught them something. Apparently not.
Update#2: the damn number is showing up all over.
Update#3: Now they are just getting mean…09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63.com and, er, some pirates have posted it in Sweden. Pirates who deal with takedown notices thusly:
We are well aware of the fact that The Pirate Bay falls outside the
scope of the DMCA - after all, the DMCA is a US-specific legislation,
and TPB is hosted in the land of vikings, reindeers, Aurora Borealis and
cute blonde girls. the pirate bay
And so on...
Update #4John Dvorak blames the tone deaf lawyers...Always a safe move.
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