2019-08-06 - Electronic Software Association: "Removal of Protected Content"

[MirnaMinkoff]

Anyone know who was responsible or at least got the blame for the epic fuck-up? I just wondered if one person or many got fired. I can’t imagine the finger pointing this epic leak caused.

I’m sure some poor lowly schlubs got thrown under the bus too.

 

[UA 674]

This is great. Idiocy at its finest.

 

[Foghot]

>copyrighted addresses

I'm still amazed at how they managed to do security for such a big event, how the fuck did they get chosen ?

 

[Pope of Degeneracy]

More levels of salt than when Justin Wong got btfo'd by Daigo

 

[NotreallyPutin]

ESA should of just issued an apology, do some gift giving to the journos and let this die in like a week. At the worst some retarded gamergater will send a rude letter or something to one of their PO boxes.

 

[January Cyst]

If the names of attendees are the copyright of the ESA, does that mean they own the people attached to that copyright?

 

[MasterDisaster]

I’m sure some poor lowly schlubs got thrown under the bus too.

Usually with a fuck-up like this a bunch of low level peons get fired and a higher-up they don't like too much gets tossed under the bus to save face.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Nah, he won't do that. He's busy playing video games and e-fellating himself

(nearly got him mixed up with total biscuit. Those two are interchangable it seems)

It's easy to tell: one's dead, the other one isn't.
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(What do you mean "That doesn't really help?")

 

[fat ugly sped]

Goddamn I love how Null goes hard in the paint over bullshit like this.

 

[breadandcircuses]

Real Galaxy Brain move on the ESAs part...

 

[Pope of Degeneracy]

ESA, as a lawyer once said,

"I would rather take up arms against ISIS than the kiwi farms."

-Ty Beard

 

[niggers]

>didn't even spring for the cost of having their legal representation send the notification for the intimidation factor

wow i didnt notice that

come on at least put a fake lawyer letterhead on your worthless threats

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

i feel like i need to take lessons on how to politely tell people to fuck themsleves like null does. just reading it you know what he means, but its pure delicious subtext.

 

[Marissa Moira]

>trying to DMCA something that almost certainly can't be copywritten
>didn't even spring for the cost of having their legal representation send the notification for the intimidation factor

They didn't send their best, they just sent the intern.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Maybe if they didn't hire incompetent baboons to code their website and encrypted it like any sane person would, then they wouldn't be in this situationb.

As it stands, it's their own damn fault this happened in the first place. Not our fault they lack the skills to do their jobs properly.

 

[AA 102]

This reminded me of an interesting case I heard about a while ago. I'm no lawyer so correct me if I'm wrong here, but the only way you could copyright factual information is if you arranged that information in the form of a list, whereas the list is arranged in some sort of creative way. There was a case about this called Key v. Chinatown. In this case the court states that, "[a]rrangement [of lists] 'refers to the ordering or grouping of data into lists or categories that go beyond the mere mechanical grouping of data as such, for example, the alphabetical, chronological, or sequential listings of data.'" As far as I can tell, this would be the only thing the ESA could argue on copyright grounds, but given that the ordering of their dox list isn't creative in the slightest, they don't have any argument here.

It'll be interesting to see if/ how they follow up to Null's reply.

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

My favorite part is when they bring up how this violates their Terms of Service, as if anyone cares about their piddly-dink little TSA that does not in anyway apply to us. Do these people not realize they can make a dignified request for take down because they're obligated to try, or is being an enraged shit flinging ape a requirement for employment in the tech industry?

 

[MechanicusAdmin]

I have a good faith belief that this isn't going to go the way that ESA thinks it's going to go.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Maybe if they didn't hire incompetent baboons to code their website

Radium had to work someplace after Lowtax booted him from something awful.

 

[RussianParasite]

Yet more evidence that journalists should just learn to code.