Sad to hear that Google is falling prey to this. I wonder if one response is to manufacture complaints against sites to tie up the process of distinguishing them? I'm not advocating this, just wondering.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, al johson wrote: > And the really bad news about DMCA is that Wired Magazine reports that > Google has started removing many sites from it's database which just have > complaints against them. In response to the question: "It sounds as if you > assume that all allegations of infringement are valid.", Larry Page > responded: "No, not at all. But when we're notified of something, we have an > obligation to do the right thing. We need to be responsive to people's > rights." (This next question was even more interesting!!): "Could the DMCA > be abused by powerful interests hoping to silence critics or competitors?" > Page answered: "That has happened, but not much. ..." > Wired, Nov. 2002, p.138. > ============ > Basically, according to Page, the reason Google has taken the position they > have, is that the DMCA protects them from liability. I'm too tired at the > moment to type more, but you should definitely read this article to see what > effect the DMCA is having on your web searches. > ---Al Johnson > ==================== > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Chilcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 9:40 AM > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] thanks, Red Hat! > > > > Greg Brown wrote: > > > Way to fight the DMCA, Red Hat! > > > > > > http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-158.html > > > > > > If you haven't read Slashdot this morning this is the Red Hat article > that's > > > causing such a stir with the DMCA. Look at the bottom of the page under > > > References. > > > > > > Greg > > > > I was rather impressed by it. According to the associated Register > > article (see the SlashDot story) the DMCA renders any details on the > > content of a security patch actionable by the government, since it > > spells out to hackers where the vulnerabilities are. > > > > The amount of such description being posted every day is huge. Despite > > this travesty, I think this is a small fraction of the offront to > > freedom and good sense embodied by the DMCA. > > > > I hope similar efforts will continue, despite the lack of a sense of > > humor and the inflexibility our government has shown in recent months. > > > > > > Scott C. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
