03-14-2009, 09:30 PM
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DMCA Insanity
Amazon's legal notice to MobileRead.com which (wrongly, imho) invoked DMCA has now made the news:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10196424-38.html The ironic part is that the news story links to the cached MobileRead.com pages which Amazon strong-armed our moderator to delete. Will Amazon now invoke DMCA against cnet? 
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03-14-2009, 09:32 PM
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Holy S**T!!!
 
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03-14-2009, 11:58 PM
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I just thought I'd mention a free utility I find very handy:
www.html-pdf-converter.com You give it a url (and they can be quite long) and it makes and download a PDF of the page. Even works with cached pages 
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03-16-2009, 07:35 PM
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03-18-2009, 02:46 PM
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03-19-2009, 05:07 PM
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All these lawsuits are just silly....
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03-19-2009, 05:28 PM
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It is ineffective, and it will probably get worse before it gets better. In fact, most of the upcoming legislation regarding the internet (in the US ... I should be more specific) is stupid. There is a new law being debated which will make it necessary for anyone having a router to keep several years worth of records (which may be inspected at any time) to verify that no one has used that router to access sites that have illegal content. Now they say it's to protect children, but it's really about digital piracy and the DMCA. And .... it's stupid. |
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03-19-2009, 05:29 PM
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Amazon can say whatever they like, but it makes one wonder if they actually have merit and grounds for litigation. In any case, I'll be interested to see where this goes.
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03-23-2009, 05:45 PM
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I think the DMCA was written by people who don't have a clue what fair use is and even if they do, they don't care.
The problem with the DMCA, is that it doesn't stop the pirates and only hurts the honest people. |
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03-23-2009, 10:51 PM
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That utility is kick-arse. Thanks.
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03-24-2009, 07:56 PM
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I'd be interested in seeing the outcome of all this fiasco.
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