Shining a Light on the Lumen Louses

A Nazi can decide to be a Fascist. Or vice versa.

So it is that the deliberately cold and bullying "Chilling Effects" website decided to hide behind a less threatening name, changing it to "Lumen."

Heh heh. Get it? They shine a light on anyone who DARES to stand up for copyright. This is slightly less obvious than trying to scare them with "Chilling Effects." As in, "If you sent in a DMCA, we will tell the world who you are, and your blood will run cold when the hackers come after you, ha ha."

In the real world, confidentiality is respected. The cops will act on your complaint and send a patrol car to the loudmouth blasting music at 2am. They WON'T log this on their website telling the world it was YOU that made the call, so that the loudmouth can find you and beat on you.

Google, Nazi Fascists that they are, have made sure that anything removed from their beloved GooTube is duly noted. The post stays up so that disappointed people expecting to hear a song FREE, get a "sad face" emoji and a notice saying "We removed content by order of..." and say exactly WHO made them pull the plug.

Likewise, any takedown request Google receives, ordering them to remove something from one of their blogs or from their search engine, is instantly hoisted to "Lumen." That way the nasty network of obnoxious faggots in Fawkes masks can see who "ruined the fun" and, heh heh, plot revenge.

Oh, what FUN it is when a copyright owner, not even breaking even when he spends 20 minutes jumping through Google hoops, not making a cent on what the "sharer" and Google made, not getting back a penny of what was lost, suddenly gets an e-mail: "We will harass you till you have a heart attack."

This, followed by a sudden barrage of telemarketer calls to the phone number Google insisted on having (and posting). This, followed by junk mail and other snotty games sent to the address Google insisted on having (and posting). And on and on.

Happily, ONE rights organization is turning the tables and have set up their own version of "Lumen."

It's been said that the wheels of justice grind slowly. Oh, so slowly. But as we see from the demise (for the moment) of Kickass and Megaupload, among others, it IS possible to get a website shut down, and it IS possible to prosecute some prick who has made a fortune off somebody else's creative work.

It's possible that one day the movie companies, TV networks and record labels will combine to tell politicians, "We are not going to let robotic parasites like Google steal our work. Either strengthen the laws so we can take down websites, block rogue ISP's and prosecute assholes, or all you'll get from us is shitty "reality" shows, garbage boy band and rap garbage, and full length cartoons."