Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of metrospoof


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Jul 5, 2010, 11:32:36 PM (15 years ago)
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Jamie McClelland
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    33== Trans-Atlantic collaboration keeps site running ==
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    5 Due to trans-Atlantic collaboration, metr0.co.uk is still up and running. The site is a spoof of http://metro.co.uk, tabloid specializing in celebrity gossip and distributed widely in England by the Associated Newspapers Ltd company.
     5The political spoof site http://metr0.co.uk is still up and running. The site is a spoof of http://metro.co.uk, a tabloid specializing in celebrity gossip and distributed widely in England by the Associated Newspapers Ltd company.
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    77The spoof site was created by Plentyfact, an activist organization in England, in response to a call for two days of action against racist press and in conjunction with a printed version of the paper.
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    99The website is hosted in the United States on one of May First/People Link's servers managed by the Tachanka collective, an MF/PL member.
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    11 Neither printed or web versions bear much resemblance to the spoofed tabloid except the colors and type-style of the logo and the printed name.
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    13 Lawyers for Associated Newspaper Ltd, however, immediately launched a frenzied campaign to pressure everyone and anyone associated with the website to remove it. They contacted many different organizations they believed might be affiliated with the site, providers of both web content and DNS services and, finally, send over a dozen emails to May First/People Link. The emails demanded that the site be immediately removed and cited a recent "High Court Order" finding the site to be in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
     11Despite being an obvious spoof of http:/metro.co.uk, Lawyers for Associated Newspaper Ltd, immediately launched a frenzied campaign to pressure everyone and anyone associated with the website to remove it. They contacted many different organizations they believed might be affiliated with the site, providers of both web content and DNS services and, finally, send over a dozen emails to May First/People Link. The emails demanded that the site be immediately removed and cited a recent "High Court Order" finding the site to be in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act.
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    1513DMCA is a ten year old law that defines copyright for on-line materials and lays out processes for defining, curing and punishing infringement. It has been consistently denounced by Internet and free speech activists as repressively broad and in violation of fundamental free speech principles.
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    1715"May First/People Link has consistently challenged the use of DMCA to curtail web free speech," MF/PL Co-Director Alfredo Lopez said. "The law is outrageous because it literally imposes a penalty and a legal cure of a violation before it even tests for that violation. It's like executing someone for murder and then trying him for it and the victim ends up being the First Amendment which is fundamental to our collective survival in this country. We at MF/PL resist such assaults on freedom as vigorously as humanly possible."
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    19 "What's more," Lopez said. "This company actually took legal action against us before contacting us. We were presented with some English court order before their lawyers even complained. As a result we are not even sure what they are talking about: there is no copyright violation that we can see on this site at all. Nothing."
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    21 MF/PL officials indicated that not only is the DMCA request unacceptable strong-arm tactics but question whether a High Court order from Great Britain has any jurisdiction in the United States.
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    23 "In any case," Lopez said. "If you're going to tell us we're violating your rights, you need to show us how and where. They haven't even bothered doing that."
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    2517May First/People Link is a politically progressive membership organization specializing in Internet work, one of the largest in the world with 300 organizations and about 100 individuals as members. It provides Internet resource to over 2,000 progressive activists in this country and is a leader in technology work at such events as the World and U.S. Social Forums.