"This appears to be yet another example of the kind of takedown abuse we’ve seen under existing law — and another reason why Congress should soundly reject the broad new powers contemplated in the Internet Blacklist Bills, aka SOPA/PIPA."
I create a song with my lyrics and music featuring your artists who like what I’m doing and fully agree to participate. You send content takedown notices in an abuse of power to rain on my parade as it goes viral.
"Until 2011, I was largely detached from these trends. An OCD approach to managing my iTunes song counts, years of easy access to albums in my college radio station’s music library, and an idealistic allegiance to the idea thats albums should be experienced as complete works of art all meant that I rarely bought single songs during the 99 cent-per-song era. Yet I acquired a sense of authorship over the music collection I had crafted and maintained."
"A system call is a request by a running task to the kernel to provide some sort of service on its behalf. In general, the kernel services invoked by system calls comprise an abstraction layer between hardware and user-space programs, allowing a programmer to implement an operating environment without having to tailor his program(s) too specifically to one single brand or precise specific combination of system hardware components. System calls also serve this generalization function across programming languages; e.g., the read system call will read data from a file descriptor. To the programmer, this looks like another C function, but in actuality, the code for read is contained within the kernel."
