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EFF and Dvorak Blame the Digg Revolt On Lawyers 262

Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:26PM from the jet-fuel-on-a-fire dept.

enharmonix writes "A bit of an update on the recent Digg revolt over AACS. The NYTimes has taken notice and written quite a decent article that actually acknowledges that the take-down notices amount to censorship and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form. I was pleased to see the similarity to 2600 and deCSS was not lost on the Times either. More interesting is that the EFF's Fred von Lohmann blames the digg revolt on lawyers. And in an opinion piece, John Dvorak expands on that theme."

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EFF and Dvorak Blame the Digg Revolt On Lawyers

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Re:By no means are my defending lawyers (Score:2, Funny)

by spyder-implee ( 864295 ) writes: on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:40PM (#19016425)

By no means are my defending lawyers
Me Fail English? That's Unpossible!

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Hell must have frozen over... (Score:5, Funny)

by rwyoder ( 759998 ) writes: on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:41PM (#19016435)

Dvorak is making sense.

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You might be a Redneck AACS lawyer if... (Score:5, Funny)

by skoaldipper ( 752281 ) writes: on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:55PM (#19016537)

you digg your own grave rather than rob anothers.

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Insult Dvorak if you want, but he (Score:5, Funny)

by kernel_pat ( 964314 ) writes: on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:57PM (#19016549) Journal

Makes a damn good keyboard layout though

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Blame the Lawyers! No blame Dvorak! (Score:5, Funny)

by rueger ( 210566 ) writes: on Sunday May 06, 2007 @11:59PM (#19016567) Homepage

Wait a minute - Dvorak says to blame the lawyers??

Oh my... I am so conflicted..... who do I complain about?

Oh, right - Microsoft!

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Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @12:11AM (#19016647)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm [wikipedia.org]

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Huh? (Score:3, Funny)

by Frosty Piss ( 770223 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @12:16AM (#19016659)

and documents instances of the infamous key appearing in purely expressive form.
Like in poetry? A haiku? What?

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Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

by MadUndergrad ( 950779 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @12:40AM (#19016789)

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Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he (Score:3, Funny)

by Phroon ( 820247 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @12:46AM (#19016827) Homepage

Sorry, your post wasn't modded funny yet, so how was I to know?

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Re:Uh... lawyers didn't cause this? WHAT? (Score:3, Funny)

by SharpFang ( 651121 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @04:18AM (#19017863) Homepage Journal

Prior (oldest known) professions of:
- congressmen: lawyers
- women: whores

seems right.

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Re:Insult Dvorak if you want, but he (Score:5, Funny)

by fbjon ( 692006 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @06:08AM (#19018427) Homepage Journal

An English guy is telling a joke in the EU parliament. All the Brits laugh immediately, the French laugh after a short moment as the translator catches up, the Germans laugh as the translator reaches the verb at the end of the sentence, and the slashdotters laugh 15 minutes later when the first +1 Funny comes in.

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Re:Digg is the most childish site ever.. (Score:4, Funny)

by Cro Magnon ( 467622 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @09:38AM (#19019985) Homepage Journal

Maybe h*s keyboard *s broke.

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Re:Takedown notice - put it online! (Score:2, Funny)

by Peter Simpson ( 112887 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:27AM (#19020501)

The humorous part of the whole takedown notice thing, was the list of pages to be taken down...one of which was /09-9f.....html
So, then, they have to issue a takedown notice for the takedown notice...which I gather they didn't bother to do.

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Re:Ah, yes, the douchebag Dvorak (Score:3, Funny)

by Z0mb1eman ( 629653 ) writes: on Monday May 07, 2007 @11:11AM (#19021107) Homepage

(and yeah, this worked most of the time, although today the technique is generally frown upon, as it is considered to be of questionable ethical judgement)
Yeah, now it's limited to corporate takeovers :p

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