Wednesday, August 05, 2009

By Pair, I Mean Balls.

Someone I know, let's call him Dave, is having to deal with the DMCA; a particular page of his has been removed by his ISP, Pair Networks, because the University of Minnesota sent Pair Networks a DMCA take-down-notice.

If you read the page in question, you can see that Dave has been critical of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2. Apparently U of M sends out DMCA notices for any content associated with that particular personality test, even when the content is legal. It's probably a carpet bombing of DMCA takedown's, because sending out DMCA notices scares people into believing that we don't have the right to express our thoughts. I wonder if I will get a notice too. Hopefully Google will protect me better than Pair Networks did for Dave.

Dave filled a counter-notice letter with Pair Networks, and they chose to ignore it, so, Dave's page remains down, in spite of Dave's legal rights.

Guess Pair Networks doesn't have a pair.

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