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

[tehpope]

Well that’s not even the issue. Their genius leaders just put an unprotected file on a public part of their website. Way to go.

I'm pretty sure a competent IT Security head would have told the ESA to put that shit behind the DMZ or password protect it.

 

[Whiskey Aniki]

I like how the ESA name dropped all those "publishers"... Foreshadowing, all the "publishers" that will sue them? Maybe?

 

[Ralph from Chicago]

It's amazing how many organizations expect the average person to assume the DMCA is a surefire TAKE THIS OFF THE INTERNET NOW NOW NOW law.
EDIT: Also privacy law isn't fucking real and only third world Europeans think that publicly available facts can also somehow be private.

Constitution of the State of Alaska Article 1 § 22. Right of Privacy
The right of the people to privacy is recognized and shall not be infringed.
This is real freedom.

 

[iamcitizeninsane]

I imagine Mr. Hewitt wants to hang himself with these controllers right now.

 

[AnOminous]

The ESA is a US only trade association. There are currently no international agreements concerning DP between the US and GDPR countries in the EU, so there's really no avenue to sue them for that. In the best case, they can be sued in absentia and then blocked on the eurowebs, but otherwise there's not much eurocourts can do.

Depends on whether they ever want to do business there, though. It's not like something like that goes away, even though as a practical matter a smaller organization could probably simply ignore it.

Also there are probably causes of action right here in the U.S. if you wanted to sue them here.

 

[SomethingWittyandBadass]

Lol. Aaah. Let the games begin.

 

[Fcret]

Depends on whether they ever want to do business there, though. It's not like something like that goes away, even though as a practical matter a smaller organization could probably simply ignore it.

Also there are probably causes of action right here in the U.S. if you wanted to sue them here.

Each Euro country has its own version of the ESA, so it's highly unlikely they'd ever want to do business there. You are right that they could probably nail them here in the US for something (who knows how many contracts with privacy clauses were signed in the course of gathering this information), but a eurosuit invoking the GDPR is pretty much a non-starter.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

I'm surprised Dear Leader did not simply reply with "Cry some more."

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Lol. Aaah. Let the games begin.

You're not doing it right:

 

[Bootylicious Bootyhole]

Oh what a joy it is to come home after a long, shitty day at work and find this little treat awaiting me!

I'm sure the only possible outcome for any legal discourse they will attempt to pursue will be as follows:

 

[Shibaru]

Gamergate 2.0, Clock Clock Crew and it's Motherfuckin' Real Man.

inb4 kuron kuwasawa blocks us all

 

[Ulysse Barry Moudachirou]

Oh fuck oh fuck Diomedes' horses have been released by Hercules, and they are running wild through town trampling, eating, and raping anyone in their path. I can hear the screams from here, I can see people are jumping from cliffs into the sea to try to escape the madness, and it looks like the palace is on fire. There is only one thing to do.

*Serves Hercules with papers instructing him to close the currently wide open stable gate, dusts hands*
Heh, Problem solved.

It's more like American Airlines issuing notices to the Pentagon and the security staff of the World Trade Center to return their planes on the morning of September 11, 2001.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

It took them three full days to send a couple paragraph email. Do these people only work 9 - 5 or something?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

it took them 15 and 13 years respectively to alert people to them

Reminds me of when Yahoo had a breach, and they didn't report it until months later.

Why are American tech companies always so incompetent?

 

[I Love Beef]

Dear ESA and fellow asshurt cocksuckers,

Fuck you and fuck your shit writing and shit attitudes.

Call this fair and go fuck yourselves. Wannabe frat boys, rat king trannies, the whole nine yards of video game fandom swampass you faggots cover, everyone of you.

Eat my beef and suck a dick.

Sincerely, I Love Beef

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Null's response is so epic. I hope they go away and leave the farms alone.

 

[Hoss]

Reminds me of when Yahoo had a breach, and they didn't report it until months later.

Why are American tech companies always so incompetent?

Because the Dot Com bubble did more damage than people realize. After that shit the Internet storm was fucking over, everything else was piggybacked off of shit AJAX Web 2.0 sites like Facebook and Youtube. Remember HTML 5? Yeah, neither does anyone else. I'm willing to bet no one at Google understands precisely how their fucking search engine works because of all the legacy code. The fucks who commit to Android CONSTANTLY fuck it up worse than the previous version. Once you see the Computer Scientists and Computer Engineers leave (or get fired for wrongthink) a tech company, it's going to go to shit pretty fucking fast. Look at Intel as of now, they lost some good damn talent to AMD and now they're feeling the heat. All for this new-age horseshit of treating someone differently for what genes they posses.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

the Computer Scientists and Computer Engineers leave (or get fired for wrongthink)

That could explain why websites always use stupid bullshit with javascript that plain HTML can do. Like display images and text.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

lmao they sent you a DMCA claim

for an Excel spreadsheet of people's phone numbers

 

[Pixis]

Did Akiva Cohen write this or some shit?