Copyright Troll USCG Violates Copyright 97
omarlittle writes "The US Copyright Group — a company owned by intellectual property lawyers, which has been in the news for threatening downloaders of the movie Hurt Locker — has apparently stolen their site from a competitor. At one point, even the competitor's phone number and copyright statement were copied word for word on USCG's 'settlement' website. The competitor is reportedly going to send a Cease & Desist."
Re:Damn! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Damn! (Score:5, Informative)
TFA doesn't mention any developers involved. Why don't you add to our knowledge and name them, since you seem to be better-informed?
A wholesale lifting of code (such as would be implied by their leaving their victim's phone number intact) could as easily have been done by a lazy, recklessly indifferent lawyer or lazy, supervised staff worker as by a lazy third-party web developer.
Moreover I really doubt there's a legally viable argument that USCG, filled with state-licensed members of the bar, doesn't ultimately have responsibility for approving and operating a website that collects evidence for use in court.
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Re:If you support this takedown (Score:2, Informative)
Watching an arsehole being hoist by their own petard is funny. But does not mean I like seeing nice people being blown up*.
(* Petard means explosive. From the French, "to break wind.")