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Staehle said Verio is pulling the plug on The Thing due to charges that one of its clients violated the DMCA by posting a parody website mocking Dow Chemical company.
We had a similar situation happen with Verio (we were collocated with them) before the Creative Audigy was released. We had acquired full documentation of the Creative Labs Audigy and published them on our site. Creative Labs then, without every contacting us, had their legal team get in touch with Verio legal and cite the DMCA as being breached. Verio then contacted us, on a Thursday as I remember it, and demanded that the entire HardOCP.com site be removed from our servers, or all bandwidth we leased would be turned off. A quick meeting with our lawyers and the Verio lawyers changed Verio's mind about the situation and it was dropped.
As for Creative Labs hiding behind the DMCA and using it for a weapon to stifle websites...well, you might remember that next time you make a purchase. Thanks Adam K.
DVD Encryption Coming to a Head:
This will of course be a landmark case in Net history no matter which side wins. Thanks Jeremy Brown.
''The future of digital delivery has been on hold ever since this case first came,'' said Doherty, head of the Envisioneering Group. ''They need to know it's going to be protected, it's not going to be ripped off seven seconds after being put on the Internet.''
That guy must have some serious bandwidth to be downloading entire DVDs in seven seconds. It takes me so much longer I almost did not get to see Episode 2 this year.
The Year in Review:
CNN is running an Associated Press story that starts off with an really interesting "award". Thanks Joseph Alpert.
The DLAPAPA (Designed Like A Picasso And Priced Accordingly) award goes to Apple Computer for the design of its latest iMac, the one that looks like half a round melon impaled with a bent easel. You have to shell out $1,499 to get one with a CD-RW drive, chugging along on a 700-megahertz processor.
Damn Vandals:
Not that we encourage anyone to paint anything where they should not, but this is still pretty cool. Vandalize your own traincar here. Blame Dexter and Cellfish for the diversion.