Michael Bluejay, owner of BicycleUniverse.info, has threatened to "remove our site" via
the DMCA:
This
is to advise you that you are using copyrighted and protected
material
on your site. Please remove all copyrighted content from your
website
that you have illegally stolen from our website. Your action
is a
violation of national and international copyright law. The stolen
material
includes, but might not be limited to, content on the
following
page:
http://www.rtmark.com/more/articles/anti-drugbicycleaustin.html
This
information was stolen from the following page (might not be a
complete
list):
http://bicycleuniverse.info/newsletters/2003-12-05.html
If
the material is not removed within seven days, I will contact your
ISP
to remove your site under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and
will
contact Google to have them remove your site from their index
under
the same Act.
We are saddened by Mr. Bluejay's strange behavior, but
have removed the "offending" page, which was our archive of an article
on his site that references a website (TheAnti-Drug.com) that we were
associated with.
We shall refrain from demanding that Mr. Bluejay remove
extensive quotes in his article (below) that were lifted directly from
TheAnti-Drug.com, (a) because we don't own that website or have anything to do
with its content, and (b) because that would be just as strange as referencing
the DMCA act in the way he does.
From http://bicycleuniverse.info/newsletters/2003-12-05.html:
Car addiction a threat to children
A website called TheAnti-Drug.com
parodies anti-drug materials by pointing out the addictive nature of
automobiles and their threat to human health, especially where children are
concerned. The feature "Kids and Cars:
Not a harmless high" includes testimonials such as these:
Car
User Tells Kids It Will Destroy Your Life
I've
been driving for 20 years. I wish I never started. It destroys your body little
by little. If you're a kid and reading this, start learning how to live
car-free now, you'll thank me later.
Teen
Tells Parents All Types of Kids Drive
I'm not
a parent but a 17 year old high school student. I want to tell everyone that
there is no one certain group or clique that uses cars. My high school is small
(about 650 kids) and, no exaggeration here, the majority of the students are
"into" cars. It's not just the "skaters", the "punks'
or the "white trash", its EVERYBODY. Almost all of the jocks drive, the
prom queen, the cheerleaders, and nobody pays any attention because they think
that only the "bad kids" drive. The preppy rich kids with the good
grades and perfect home lives are no exception. Even the cops' kids drive. I
know, I've been in a car with the son of the chief of police. So if you think
your child is not the type to get sucked into the dangerous car-culture by
peer-pressure, you'd better think again, because there is no certain type.
Our favorite bit was the commercial "Okay" about how
drug money funds terrorists, cleverly edited to be about how oil money funds
terrorists. (see
MPG commercial)