I’ve made a quick note before about Dozier law firm. What I thought to be just some ridiculous claim by some random attention-seeker seems to be far worse. tdaxp reports on the adventures of this colourful bunch of morons regularly, so I won’t reiterate here all of that. But in terms of the complete and utter lack of sense their ‘view source’ claim is, we have a quick and dirty ‘source mirror‘ script on Freesome, showing just how easy it is to legally circumvent. To this, I would add the following short points:
- My browser sees the source.
Even if I don’t willingly want to do so, it still gets it. What that also means is that, were I to use telnet to browse websites1 I would automatically see it. No need to explicitly tell my browser to do anything to accomplish that.
- My traffic is subject to review.
Without giving these guys more lawsuit ideas, it should be noted that a web admin might sniff all or part of the network traffic. I might do so myself, for whatever reasons. Reviewing this traffic with various tools will reveal said page source. Have I, unwillingly and beyond my ability to do otherwise, committed copyright infringement?2
I will follow along, only because it may be even funnier than some of the comics I enjoy. That comedy could easily turn to tragedy, however, if they actually get anything out of their absurd claims3
