Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of metrospoof

Timestamp:

Jul 5, 2010, 11:50:34 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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metrospoof

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 The 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.
 
-Despite 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.
+Despite 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.
 
 DMCA 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.