Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

Danny Pansters danny at ricin.com
Fri May 6 17:27:22 PDT 2005


On Saturday 07 May 2005 00:49, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Tomas Quintero writes:
> > Theres just one more big problem with this, and all the DMCA stuff.
> >
> > I don't think Fafa is in America. I don't think he'd be a US Citizen
> > either. Fafa, can you claim otherwise? I mean all indications in his
> > sig hint towards him being a citizen of another country.
>
> It's possible to submit DMCA notifications from outside the U.S., if the
> potential infringement is inside the U.S.

Which shows how bad cratic souvereign counties are gettingthey're accepting US 
corp law as their own.

Anyway, stuff your DMCA.. until we have a valid precedent for it I'd say stuff 
it. What if it's the US DMCA against a big French software house (assuming 
you have one). How would you think your gov would react? Now go back to 
someone complaining about their want-on sent messages being archived... yeah 
sure they would cave in. Dream on.

And besides as other people have pointed out in the realm of cyberspace once 
you post something willingly, it's impossible to retain it and any perceived 
profit that would have been generated by it (yes, the court will ask about 
this loss of profit). It's a loosing shipwreck trying to go to court for 
that.

It may just end up as what most people would expect: considered "fair use", 
and if it doesn't it's going to loose over technicalities alone, like when 
you answer back quoting the original message. Were you breaking copyrights? 
Not if the poster could have expected to be quoted and besides that if 
there's no (perceived) profit involved its moot anyhow. No judge is going to 
do that dance, not even in the crazy paranoid corporate stronghold culture we 
live in these days. Forget it.

Still... would the OP please try to sue so that we get a nice jurisdiction 
about this. Rather now than later.


Dan


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