{"id":2355,"date":"2003-03-01T11:08:12","date_gmt":"2003-03-01T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=313"},"modified":"2003-03-01T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2003-03-01T14:08:12","slug":"lawyer-automation-aka-artificial-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/01\/lawyer-automation-aka-artificial-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer automation (AKA artificial stupidity)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schockwellenreiter.de\/\">Der Schockwellenreiter<\/a> tells all about the perils of automating cease-and-desist letters. It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-muenster.de\/\">M\u00fcnster University<\/a> got such a letter from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.org\/\">BSA<\/a>, regarding their distribution of &#8220;unlicensed copies of copyrighted material&#8221; through their FTP server.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs it happens, the offending material was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">Open Office<\/a>, an Open Source package. <a href=\"http:\/\/distribution.openoffice.org\/servlets\/ReadMsg?msgId=581265&#038;listName=dev\">Here<\/a> are copies of the letter and responses; the BSA subsequently apologized, blaming an automated script for reacting to the word &#8220;office&#8221; (not yet a Microsoft trademark).<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_03_01_archive.html#90395558\">the link<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<b>Update:<\/b> lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicktopic.com\/boing\/H\/88mBEJqELKLj\">interesting comments<\/a> at the Boing Boing discussion board, including one by Ned Richards, one of the OpenOffice project leads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes we think its cool that the BSA believe we&#8217;re completely compatible with MS Office. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230;We&#8217;re obviously worried that this might harass our mirrors, our most important means of distribution.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8230; We haven&#8217;t yet heard of any further reports of this occuring, obviously we&#8217;d treat them with the utmost seriousness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Schockwellenreiter tells all about the perils of automating cease-and-desist letters. It seems that M\u00fcnster University got such a letter from the BSA, regarding their distribution of &#8220;unlicensed copies of copyrighted material&#8221; through their FTP server. As it happens, the offending material was Open Office, an Open Source package. Here are copies of the letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-BZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}