Article KVX7 Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches

Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches

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Cory Doctorow
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index1.gifEmmanuel Goldstein writes, "2600 Magazine is being threatened with legal action for using bits of ink splatter on the Spring 2012 cover that Trunk Archive Images claims it has the rights to. That's right, ink splatter. The sophistication of the tracking software in actually being able to detect specific splotches of ink throughout the entire Internet is as astounding as it is scary. But it also happens to be dead wrong as the ink splatter in question actually belongs to an artist in Finland." Read the rest

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