Comments on: I Used DMCA http://gravitonic.com/2009/04/i-used-dmca Life, technology, and other good things Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jf http://zmievski.org/2009/04/i-used-dmca/comment-page-1#comment-1285 jf Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:00:14 +0000 http://gravitonic.com/?p=795#comment-1285 must be hard having no actual worries to occupy your time must be hard having no actual worries to occupy your time

]]> By: Andrei http://zmievski.org/2009/04/i-used-dmca/comment-page-1#comment-1284 Andrei Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:50:06 +0000 http://gravitonic.com/?p=795#comment-1284 @Disappointed Reader, I am not trying to win a battle with Internet. I am simply trying to have some semblance of control over content that I poured a lot of work into. Please note that <em>I am not against people re-publishing my slides</em>—but I am against them doing it without permission. Is it so hard to send me an email and say, "Hey, do you mind if I publish this on scribd.com or translate it into Bulgarian and publish on my blog?" @Disappointed Reader, I am not trying to win a battle with Internet. I am simply trying to have some semblance of control over content that I poured a lot of work into. Please note that I am not against people re-publishing my slides—but I am against them doing it without permission. Is it so hard to send me an email and say, “Hey, do you mind if I publish this on scribd.com or translate it into Bulgarian and publish on my blog?”

]]> By: Disappointed Reader http://zmievski.org/2009/04/i-used-dmca/comment-page-1#comment-1283 Disappointed Reader Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:11:46 +0000 http://gravitonic.com/?p=795#comment-1283 You have a ways to go before you win your war with the internet. Just search for your name on Scribd, then go check SlideShare and then try Google. This is a war you'll never win. I understand what you're saying but this just seems so unnecessary over what boils down to a deck on a text editor. So someone wants to share your distinct knowledge with the world and they upload a presentation they saw to a popular presentation sharing site. Someone runs across it and LEARNS something new... maybe they've never heard of you or what you do but they learn something.. isn't that the goal? It's not like there's a mass conspiracy here to discredit you by editing your name off the slides... it's just amazing that you'd act like this.. all the work you do for open source projects and then act like over a copy of some slides... it's kinda disappointing. [ 1 ] http://www.scribd.com/doc/14125190/Vim-for-PHP-Programmers-PHP-Quebec-2009 [ 2 ] http://www.scribd.com/doc/14125688/Andreis-Regex-Clinic-PHP-Quebec-2009 [ 3 ] http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=andrei+zmievski You have a ways to go before you win your war with the internet. Just search for your name on Scribd, then go check SlideShare and then try Google. This is a war you’ll never win. I understand what you’re saying but this just seems so unnecessary over what boils down to a deck on a text editor.

So someone wants to share your distinct knowledge with the world and they upload a presentation they saw to a popular presentation sharing site. Someone runs across it and LEARNS something new… maybe they’ve never heard of you or what you do but they learn something.. isn’t that the goal? It’s not like there’s a mass conspiracy here to discredit you by editing your name off the slides… it’s just amazing that you’d act like this.. all the work you do for open source projects and then act like over a copy of some slides… it’s kinda disappointing.

[ 1 ] http://www.scribd.com/doc/14125190/Vim-for-PHP-Programmers-PHP-Quebec-2009

[ 2 ] http://www.scribd.com/doc/14125688/Andreis-Regex-Clinic-PHP-Quebec-2009

[ 3 ] http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=andrei+zmievski

]]> By: Andy http://zmievski.org/2009/04/i-used-dmca/comment-page-1#comment-1280 Andy Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:02:36 +0000 http://gravitonic.com/?p=795#comment-1280 My comment: Invoking the DMCA, via the channels setup to do so, is not being a dick nor isheavy handed. It would have been slightly better to contact the poster and ask them to handle taking it down, but sometimes that's impossible. Having a lawyer invoke the DMCA for you under the assumption that it's going to take a lawyer to get it resolved _is_ being a dick, however. Providing written documentation by sending in a DMCA notice protects everyone and ensures that things are handled in a timely manner (it also tests that service providers are handling DMCA notices as they should). My comment: Invoking the DMCA, via the channels setup to do so, is not being a dick nor isheavy handed. It would have been slightly better to contact the poster and ask them to handle taking it down, but sometimes that’s impossible. Having a lawyer invoke the DMCA for you under the assumption that it’s going to take a lawyer to get it resolved _is_ being a dick, however. Providing written documentation by sending in a DMCA notice protects everyone and ensures that things are handled in a timely manner (it also tests that service providers are handling DMCA notices as they should).

]]> By: Martin F http://zmievski.org/2009/04/i-used-dmca/comment-page-1#comment-1279 Martin F Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:54:17 +0000 http://gravitonic.com/?p=795#comment-1279 It makes a lot of sense actually, when you send in a DMCA notice you're legally accountable for the truthfulness of your claims. Anyone can say that some slides are theirs, if they then later go "haha, I got you!" then there's nothing you can do about that - with a DMCA notice, though, you can sue the bastards who's trying to pull your legs. :) In reality it's probably just a way to weed out fake requests. It makes a lot of sense actually, when you send in a DMCA notice you’re legally accountable for the truthfulness of your claims. Anyone can say that some slides are theirs, if they then later go “haha, I got you!” then there’s nothing you can do about that – with a DMCA notice, though, you can sue the bastards who’s trying to pull your legs. :)

In reality it’s probably just a way to weed out fake requests.

]]> By: Brian Moon http://zmievski.org/2009/04/i-used-dmca/comment-page-1#comment-1275 Brian Moon Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:58:43 +0000 http://gravitonic.com/?p=795#comment-1275 I have had this same problem. Someone posted two sets of my slides from last years MySQL Conference on slideshare. I also did not mind sharing, they were on my site. But, if someone is going to post them on slideshare, I want it to be me. Not some poacher. I have had this same problem. Someone posted two sets of my slides from last years MySQL Conference on slideshare. I also did not mind sharing, they were on my site. But, if someone is going to post them on slideshare, I want it to be me. Not some poacher.

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