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[Kon Tiki]

"The MPAA filed a DMCA takedown notice against Superconnect, a software company. The letter is available herethat demands the removal of roughly 120K of open-source TCL code that they believe to be a 'copyrighted motion pictures.' This is definitely a surprising case of the guilty until proven innocent world that the DMCA provides." And yet another: enrico_suave writes "The Entertainment Software Association falsely accuses the Interactive Fiction archive of pirating Doom 3. doom3.zip is a 114kb freeware DOS game from 1988. Reminiscent of when the RIAA sent C & D's to a Professor Usher who had an usher.mp3 file posted on his website."

The title(s) offered included:

X-FILES, THE Season 1-7

Infringement Detail:
Infringing Work: X-FILES, THE Season 1-7
Filepath: /pub/tcl/sorted/file/X-Files1.21b/
Filename: X-Files1.21b.tar.gz
First Found: 2 Sep 2004 07:29:7 EDT (GMT -0400)
Last Found: 2 Sep 2004 07:29:7 EDT (GMT -0400)
Filesize: 113k
IP Address: 216.52.171.81
IP Port: 21
Network: FTP
Protocol: FTP

Man that is some might fine compression!

Sure the name is copyrighted. That is not the issue.

 

[SKluck]

Wow. Common sense people, use it.

 

[Diablos]

Fucking idiots.

 

[Error Macro]

Holy shit! I think the real news here is that some company has developed a compression algorithm that can compress seven seasons of the X-Files into a tiny file!!

 

[Diablos]

Hell yeah dude!

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

People should just start calling random files the names of copyrighted work to piss these bastards off.

 

[neptunes]

well you have to give it to them. (not that I agree)

Some of those warez groups can compress a 1.5 gig game into 200mb.

 

[Kon Tiki]

well you have to give it to them.

Some of thoe warez groups can compress a 1.5 gig game into 200mb.

That is not compression. That is taking out game files. Unless you mean winrar's M5(?) compression. Which is winrar not 'warez groups'.