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EFF looking for victims of Viacom
We recently told you how network giant Viacom sent a flood of DMCA notices demanding thousands of video clips be removed from YouTube. They even went so far as to demand the removal of videos containing no Viacom content at all, and still countless other clips which clearly fall under fair use. Viacom's shotgun approach to removing potentially infringing video from YouTube has not only angered fair use advocates and a few innocent bystanders but, peeked piqued the interest of the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well.
The EFF is asking those caught in the mess created by Viacom's spamigation to step forward and let them know. The 1 minute video clip shown above does an excellent job of explaining this whole mess in a witty and irreverent tone. It's going to take sharp action from a body such as the EFF to make corporate giants think twice about indiscriminately sending DMCA notices before they're sure they've identified actual infringement.
The EFF is asking those caught in the mess created by Viacom's spamigation to step forward and let them know. The 1 minute video clip shown above does an excellent job of explaining this whole mess in a witty and irreverent tone. It's going to take sharp action from a body such as the EFF to make corporate giants think twice about indiscriminately sending DMCA notices before they're sure they've identified actual infringement.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Ron said 1:10PM on 2-12-2007
It's "piqued", not "peeked".
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LeisureGuy said 1:15PM on 2-12-2007
"peeked the interest" should be "piqued the interest".
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Bob said 1:40PM on 2-12-2007
As a person who makes a living writing, you should know that the word is "piqued".
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Grant Robertson said 2:04PM on 2-12-2007
Somewhere, deep within a brain cell which exceeded its useful service lifespan some time ago, I knew that. Thanks for the catch! DLS readers are awesome.
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Ron said 2:38PM on 2-12-2007
Everyone else beat me to it.
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