Sarah Palin's dumbass attorney general sends bogus DMCA request
 

So apparently last fall, the owner of the domain "crackho.com" decided to use a URL redirect to forward visitors from the site to the Governor of Alaska's official web page.

The crack team at the Alaska governor's office didn't even notice until a few days ago. But they wasted no time in sending a "cease and desist" and accused crackho.com of posting and misusing the Seal of the State of Alaska (apparently they have no clue about what DNS is, or what a redirection is, or could even bother to look at the URL at the top of their browser window.)

The article is here

Now wouldn't it be funny if a few people had domains they aren't using, preferably ones with unsavory names, which they just happened to put up redirects to Governor Palin's page? :)

What is even more sad than them not understanding a redirect and all of that. Checking into the rules of the state seal of Alaska and the only thing I can find is this.

(a) A person may not use or make a die or impression of the state seal for any advertising or commercial purpose, unless written permission has first been obtained from the lieutenant governor.

Do not even think they would of misused the state seal even if they had it up on their site before it fowarded - which they did not but still come on.

I guess you homosexuals are not very smart are you? That would be the best thing ever for her, way to keep her relevant. You act like the people that would vote for her care about what homosexuals, pornographers and internet deviants think? :1orglaugh

Why don't you go back to bashing someone a little bit more on your level, like Ms. California... actually she kicked your little faggot butts too didnt she? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I guess you missed my point, but hey, that's what I'd expect from someone that would make the sort of comment you did.

The best thing ever is to make her look like she doesn't understand the basics of the internet? Seems to be a common theme for Alaskans.

this thread is most certainly gay

Personally while I see your point, but when you do dumb shit like that you're just begging to draw attention to yourself and should be surprised when people notice.

I am actually very amazed that they figured out how to read the reffering log files, despite the crackho site geting almost zero traffic - yet they do not understand a simple redirect nor even their own state laws on the seal usage.

I'm not even sure that they *did* read the referrer logs. I think more likely, somebody noticed that (from their perspective) crackho.com was illegally displaying the Alaska seal and Sarah Palin's picture, and they sent a cease-and-desist.

I think that if they really had checked their referrer logs, they would have figured out that their beloved Alaska seal wasn't actually on the crackho server at all.

Splum's comment notwithstanding, I do think it would be an amusing exercise to watch the attorney general's office send tons of takedown notices to servers that have no content to take down. I doubt it would get much in the way of publicity (and therefore, it would not be likely to raise much awareness), but it would certainly annoy her and her staff, and possibly further indicate how vain and utterly clueless she is.

But

that is so fuck up