Fatwallet Strikes Back


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Less than two weeks after retailers threatened deal website FatWallet.com with DMCA suits, FatWallet is on the counterattack. Several retailers ordered FatWallet and other websites to take down Nov 29th sale information from their forums claiming the information was protected under the DMCA. Wal-Mart also filed a subpoena ordering FatWallet to identify a poster who submitted sale information to the website. Today FatWallet posted in their forums they were challenging "abusive DMCA claims" and affirming they protect their users' privacy rights.
Today, FatWallet sent each retailer a letter contesting its frivolous copyright assertion and demanding payment, under Section 512(f) of the DMCA, for all damages, including costs and attorneys? fees, incurred by FatWallet in addressing the knowing and material misrepresentations of copyright protection. According to Megan E. Gray, ?As the retailers well know, simple sales prices are not protected by copyright. Copyright only covers the expression of ideas, not facts.? Deirdre K. Mulligan noted, ?This is an example of corporations using allegations of copyright infringement to silence speech.?ch.?

full story at: http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1038891496.html

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Yeah, good to see them try. I already did my part by telling my family and friends about what the retailers were doing. I am also not shopping at any of their stores, even if it costs more somewhere else.

If it ever comes to a court case I will be contributing some money to the anti-dmca cause if need be.

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