Comments on: Web 2.0 backlash http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml You tell that other boy, not to touch the woodwork... Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: tychay http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-75147 tychay Mon, 07 May 2007 22:35:09 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-75147 The genius of a great comedic character: <a href="http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-happens-when-you-build-company.html" rel="nofollow">You can speak the truth</a>. Another FSJ instant classic. The genius of a great comedic character: You can speak the truth. Another FSJ instant classic.

]]> By: tychay http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-73478 tychay Fri, 04 May 2007 00:37:32 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-73478 NYT has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/technology/03code.html?ex=1335844800&en=281b1ae4687f0fd3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" rel="nofollow">Nice summary of event</a> for the non-geeks. The folks at PodShow <a href="http://geekbriefwp.podshow.com/digg-the-code-geekbrieftv" rel="nofollow">post a cute video</a>. uncov <a href="http://www.uncov.com/2007/5/2/digg-descends-into-chaos" rel="nofollow">posts their verdict</a>: <blockquote>Digg users champion democracy and the power of the people but lets be honest: Digg is an idiocracy run for and by the idiots. Their sense of false rights would be funny if it weren't so sad. It's a linkdump where people submit or buy links to drive traffic to their blog and not much more.</blockquote> NYT has a Nice summary of event for the non-geeks.

The folks at PodShow post a cute video.

uncov posts their verdict:

Digg users champion democracy and the power of the people but lets be honest: Digg is an idiocracy run for and by the idiots. Their sense of false rights would be funny if it weren’t so sad. It’s a linkdump where people submit or buy links to drive traffic to their blog and not much more.

]]> By: tychay http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-73053 tychay Thu, 03 May 2007 02:48:16 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-73053 <a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005229.php" rel="nofollow">Interesting.</a> Apparently safe harbor defenses is confusing copyright and DMCA which grants much broader civil prosecution powers than a copyright. Interesting. Apparently safe harbor defenses is confusing copyright and DMCA which grants much broader civil prosecution powers than a copyright.

]]> By: tychay http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-72900 tychay Wed, 02 May 2007 19:44:41 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-72900 IANAL but somehow I feel that digg might win this one under some sort of ISP/common carrier exception. At the point I screenshotted it, it was pretty clear that there was no way they can win against their users short of shuttering the doors and it was also clear that digg the company wasn’t the one posting this information. (Personally, I'd think that a company could/should only respond to very specific request for takedown when it is issued from a 3rd party—a blanket takedown doesn’t really make sense (DMCA disagrees). Also, there seems to be a problem between “burying” and takedown which I hope they tried to convey to the AACS. You know, because the outcome was definitely not what the they wanted.) <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/02/digg_users_revolt_ov.html" rel="nofollow">BoingBoing thinks they have a strategy</a>, but Cory’s use of the English language in this instance is especially poor—that’s especially ironic for a published writer: “I think another way of doing this would be to take down each user post on receipt of a takedown notice, then post PDFs of each takedown notice that he received in their place, which PDFs will contain the magic number. That way, the information stays alive and Digg doesn't get sued.” The larger problem, of course, is that there seem to be a lot of issues with the way DMCA was written. Oh well. It keeps the lawyers and politicians employed and idiots like me just speculating. :-) IANAL but somehow I feel that digg might win this one under some sort of ISP/common carrier exception. At the point I screenshotted it, it was pretty clear that there was no way they can win against their users short of shuttering the doors and it was also clear that digg the company wasn’t the one posting this information.

(Personally, I’d think that a company could/should only respond to very specific request for takedown when it is issued from a 3rd party—a blanket takedown doesn’t really make sense (DMCA disagrees). Also, there seems to be a problem between “burying” and takedown which I hope they tried to convey to the AACS. You know, because the outcome was definitely not what the they wanted.)

BoingBoing thinks they have a strategy, but Cory’s use of the English language in this instance is especially poor—that’s especially ironic for a published writer:
“I think another way of doing this would be to take down each user post on receipt of a takedown notice, then post PDFs of each takedown notice that he received in their place, which PDFs will contain the magic number. That way, the information stays alive and Digg doesn’t get sued.”

The larger problem, of course, is that there seem to be a lot of issues with the way DMCA was written. Oh well. It keeps the lawyers and politicians employed and idiots like me just speculating. :-)

]]> By: carpeicthus http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-72813 carpeicthus Wed, 02 May 2007 15:09:13 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/web-20-backlash.shtml#comment-72813 I'll bet the lawsuit is for more than a trillion dollars. I’ll bet the lawsuit is for more than a trillion dollars.

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