Dow vs. Parody

tres3 writes "I stumbled across this item on Wired about Verio cutting off The Thing's Internet access after seven years of service. It seems that The Yes Men have upset DOW Chemical with their parody press release concerning a poison gas leak at the Union Carbide plant (now owned by Dow) in Bhopal, India, in 1984, that killed thousands. It was posted by RTMark.com, one of hundreds of customers (mostly artists and political activists) of The Thing, but has gone missing following the DMCA claims by DOW. Some European sites are now hosting the site here and here (slightly different). What really sent me into orbit was Dow's response to all of this. While writing this submission I noticed that I have become a victim of The Yes Men and "Dow's" response is actually one of their parodies! :-) The story is still valid but the only thing I could find that really came from DOW was the DMCA complaint (pdf) to Verio. To add insult to injury (and death (pun intended)) Dow has committed a reprehensible act, even for corporate America, by suing the survivors for ten years of income ($10,000) for protesting Dow's failure to clean up the mess. Greenpeace has set up a site for you to protest this action." We did an earlier story on this.

Have you seen The Thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

That guy's made of rock or something! And he's got a budd that's made of fire, plus that stretchy guy and invisible girl. If I were an ISP, I wouldn't be messing around with superheroes like that!

Their Thing?

[Anonymous Coward]

I stumbled across this item on Wired about Verio cutting off The Thing's

Did anybody else read this as "Verio cutting off their Thing"?

OMFG

[Anonymous Coward]

That was the most incomprehensible story summary I've ever read.

There was the group, and we'll give them some forgettable name, and they did some stuff, and DMCA, and ow what hit me, the end.

Re:how is this different from the earlier story?

[spazoid12]

I've noticed that lately all you need to do is read back-issues of Wired magazine, and in particular, PopSci magazine.

And then hope that either Timothy or ChrisD is on duty.

But, of course, I'm wrong and this is just trollish flamebait. And so in an effort not to get modded down let me add: I found this article to be insightful and informative. I particularly found the Greenpeace link inspiring and have made a mental note to someday, possibly, visit that link...if nothing else, just to see what a bunch of Zodiac owners are up to now.

Re:OMFG

[Shalome]

Heh.. you forgot the "Oh, but wait, as I'm writing this I realized that the first half of my submission was utterly ridiculous and actually wrong, but I'm continuing anyway..." and the "Oh wait, we already said this" from the Slashdot editors. ;)

I was going to, but. . .

[kfg]

I was afraid the symbol might be trademarked and I'd get sued for using it in an unapproved fashion.

KFG