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  • NASCAR Abuses DMCA To Try To Delete Fan Videos Of Daytona Crash

    ByteMaster ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2013 @ 09:34am

    Nothing will happen.

    Just like the "birds video": http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/guy-gets-bogus-youtube-copyright-claim-birds-singing-background.shtml

    ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WILL HAPPEN!

    So vent your frustration in forums, and with the stacked FPTP voting systems we have here (also the Grey Typewriters play a role) there's nothing you can do.

  • Copyright Is Becoming Guilt By Accusation

    ByteMaster ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2013 @ 09:28am

    Shareholder Action?

    Would it be helpful if many of us became shareholders of the (parent companies of) ISPs then sign over (on a yearly basis) voting rights to e.g. the EFF and try and vote down the ISPs "voluntary" participation in the Six Strike system?

    At the very least it will have to be explicitly decided every year and obviously and apparently against the subscribers' wishes for all to see.

  • WIPO Is Quietly Signing An Agreement To Give Hollywood Stars Their Own Special Version Of Copyright

    ByteMaster ( profile ), 28 Jun, 2012 @ 09:10pm

    I would make a "Hitler reacts to Beijing Treaty" video but I'm afraid actor Bruno Ganz might believe it will "harm" his "reputation".

    MPAA: so how do we react to all these 'parody' exceptions to our Holy Copyright?

    WIPO: aha! remember how we helped out your RIAA brothers and use the *copyright to the lyrics* to keep sound recordings with expired copyright still under copyright? Now we're going to use the *actors* to circumvent the parody-exception. If it's parody, chances are that they are being made fun of, no? Whammo! Off-line those vids! Screw those idiots thinking they can mess with Big Copyright!