Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns 396
dmarti writes "In an apparent response to criticism of its handling of a threatening letter from a Church of Scientology lawyer, the popular search engine Google has begun to make so-called "takedown" letters public. DMCA-censored pages are now two clicks and a cut-and-paste away from the regular search results."
Behold the power... (Score:4, Funny)
Of course, someone will come up and say "a slashdotting is insignificant next to the power of a Google Cache."
-Cyc
scientology's new weapon (Score:4, Funny)
Soo.... (Score:4, Funny)
Obvious response.... (Score:5, Funny)
An even more evil plan would be to send two DMCA complaints for each DMCA complaint published, perhaps one for the first half, one for the second half. The exponential growth of DMCA complaint letters could bring even Google to its knees.
Of course, it'd be hard to generate all these complaint letters. So what you do is, build the Google API into an Outlook virus, which looks for published DMCA letters on Google and sends an automatic complaint. Soon the entire Internet will be crippled by the DMCA deluge...which was sorta the idea from the beginning, I think.
Scientology had a point (Score:4, Funny)
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
Part of scientology is to free yourself of these souls. Now does releasing this text not possibly allow a person to rid themselves of these souls by alerting them to their presence? These "special 3d motion pictures" are undoubtedly a technological security measure. The only logical solution from this is that the page is a digital circumvention device specifically disallowed by the DMCA. I believe it is a clear cut issue and that the scientologists are fully within their rights to disallow google to allow people to link to this illegal page. However also keep in mind that scientology didn't enact this security measure, Xenu did, therefore scientology is also in violation of this law. Now if only Xenu can break free of his volcano, come to Earth, and sue the scientologists
Scientology sucks! (Score:5, Funny)
They sent obnoxious mail. I taped it to cinder blocks with "addressee unknown, please return" on their mail. The US PS was happy to charge them $20 or so to return those.
However, when two of them pushed into my my living room without my invitation, I excused myself for a moment and came back with a rifle, which I pointed at them, and I told them to leave my premises and never darken my door again.
Then we got phone calls. I shut that down by calling their office and carefully explaining to them that if I got any further harrassment from them I would personally shoot everyone in their f*cking cult, starting with the people in their downtown office and not stopping until I'd found and shot every f*cking Scientologist in the entire state!
That worked. And that's how Scientologists should be dealt with. It's the only "reasoning" they understand. Tar and feathers are gentle approbation, and very appropriate.
Re:What about searches coming from Canada? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let me browse SlashDot with a delay (Score:2, Funny)
Then, I could set the delay to a negative number and get that elusive first post!
Must restrain fingers... must not post comment... (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, I had to say, I, I had no choice!
Re:Here's a mirror (Score:0, Funny)
Thank you for your hypertext markup language link to an enticing image. If I was not at work, I would be yanking my crank. Spanking the monkey. Doing the twist. Shaking hands with the pope. Have a good weekend.
Yours,
That Dude Who Stands In The Bus Terminal All Day Leering At Young Women
Re:Behold the power... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What about searches coming from Canada? (Score:5, Funny)
Keep quiet, eh? We don't need 'merican Scientologists realizing that google.ca is exempt from the DCMA and all the other anti-free speech laws that come from the US, eh? Then they'll come up here and try to bug us with censorship, make inane threats and worst of all drink our beer, eh?
Soko
(See the AC in this thread for the whys about the ehs, eh?)
Re:Scientology sucks! (Score:5, Funny)
There are laws, at least in Canada that allow you to do this. (IANAL)
First, they forcibly entered the house without permission - AKA "home invasion".
Second, they did not leave - you ask them twice to leave, if they don't it's tresspassing.
Third, use of a weapon - they invaded his home, they were tresspassing. Using the rifle to persuade them to leave is self defense. If they had charged him, or produced a weapon he could have shot and wounded them (not killed!!)
In Canada you are allowed to use reasonable force to defend yourself. If someone uses a 2X4, you can use a baseball bat. If they pull a knife, you can shoot to wound. If you wound them, it self defense. If you kill them, it's manslaughter.
Personally, I wouldn't have shot them. The meat is greasy and the pelts are useless
Re:Soo.... (Score:2, Funny)
It's "DMCA", not "DCMA"!!!!!!
Re:If you really want to get them... (Score:5, Funny)
Problem: there is a chance they might become evangelical Christians as a result. Use extreme caution.
Re:Soo.... (Score:3, Funny)
Really? [freesklyarov.org]
Re:Behold the power... (OT) (Score:2, Funny)
I invented this technique (Score:2, Funny)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29802&cid=3
I have taken out US patent #9,385,379, "DMCA notification bypass technique" on this and all related techniques. Google has not licensed this patent so I'm going to sue them for $50,000 per use.
Just kidding of course -- good job, Google.
Better would have been to ignore those DMCA letters entirely, and argue in court that the DMCA 512(d) safe harbor is redundant; that is, there isn't any valid claim for contributory or vicarious liability for search engines in the first place. But this isn't too bad.
Re:Go Oogle! (Score:3, Funny)
So let me get this straight...by Linking to Xenu.net [xenu.net] we can up its rankings? That's pretty interesting.
Re:Soo.... (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds painful.
Re:Exposing them... (Score:3, Funny)
In fact, someone did a song dissing Avagrams. Hmm, hang on a sec...
Enturbulator 009 [stationmp3.com] has a number songs poking fun at the Happy Fun Cult.
Re:Scientology sucks! (Score:2, Funny)
They sued that one guy for "threatening" them with a cruise missile. I wouldn't be making threats of imminent physical harm that you can't defend in a long and costly court battle.
There was a letter by a Scientologist in the local paper recently - something about using L. Ron's new drug "Narcanon" or something like that to wean kids off of drugs. I don't want to think what it's weaning them off of.