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Masada2000 Strikes Out
Blogger wipes the slate clean of hateIf Masada2000’s owner were Derek Jeter, he might be out of a job or at least on the bench. Lately, things haven’t been going well for him as he’s batting 0 for 2. He’s now on his third webhost in six months having been bounced from two previous ones because of the pathological hate it espouses. And now he’s faced another defeat.
Some time ago, he took umbrage with my attacks on one of his allies, Rachel Neuwirth and created a fake blog supposedly written by and about me. Among the illegal things he did was to display images of me in violation of copyright. I tried persuading Blogger to take down the site because of its multiple violations of Blogger Terms of Service. That didn’t work. So I resorted to filing DMCA complaints about each copyright violation. And there were many. Yesterday, I filed my third. I guess Blogger too was getting tired of the M2K hate machine or tired of removing infringing photos, because they wiped the entire site clean. There’s now a placeholder blog there with no content.
Poor M2K. Where will the bullies turn next?
To be fair, I should thank Blogger. I haven’t been kind to them in discussing their refusal to honor their own TOS regarding this site. Whatever motivated them to do the right thing (maybe it was a lawyer’s letter), I welcome it.
UPDATE: I take back anything good I said about Blogger. Turns out they removed the site’s content but didn’t prevent the owner from accessing the site. So all the content including the infringing photo is back up again. Amazing that Blogger lets someone get away with this despite the fact that it sets them up for potentially huge DMCA liability.
