tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650535495069346727.post1793696212988901894..comments2008-10-12T09:43:35.461-07:00Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06794142754626829835noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650535495069346727.post-50815154422484659332008-10-12T09:43:00.000-07:002008-10-12T09:43:00.000-07:00<I>Did they just say that I should pay an attorney for a consultation before I complain about an infringement? That's just a nasty attitude on the part of slideshare.net. Whatever happened to common courtesy? On top of that, why jump through all of the paper hoops, even if it is the requirement by law? How about accepting an e-mail with some links? It seems that common courtesy has become as uncommon as common sense.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm not a lawyer (nor an American citizen), but from a situation involving SF writers and Scribd last year, I got the impression that it's a very serious business to file a DMCA (as opposed to a simple request to take down the works) and one should be really, really sure of what they're doing (in the scribd case, someone simply searched for names without actually checking the results). So it's possible that the site owners felt that they couldn't afford to use nicer language.Spiegelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03125122278326802290noreply@blogger.com