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Just less than a month ago there was lots of excitement about a tribe of people living deep in the Brazilian jungle that had been photographed from the air. It was claimed at the time that these villagers were just now being discovered for the first time.

In the past few days it’s been determined that this was a lie on the part of the photographer.

José Carlos Meirelles has admitted that authorities have known about the tribe since at least 1910! He took the photos and still claimed that these people had been completely undiscovered until his aerial reconnaissance. Why? Because he wanted it to seem like they were a truly lost tribe so that more attention would be given toward the issue of the impact of logging in the Amazon basin.

In other words: it was a lie driven by a political agenda.

I still harbor some ...

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Early this morning Brian Sapient of the Rational Response Squad posted on the group’s site that YouTube had restored their account.

You might remember a few days ago when I wrote here about how the atheist Rational Response Squad had apparently been targeted by a Christian organization. Creation Science Evangelism Ministries allegedly filed “false DMCA copyright requests” against the Rational Response Squad with YouTube, and YouTube subsequently yanked Rational Response Squad’s account. But as you can see, it is now back up.

In the past few days since posting on this blog that I would “give the Rational Response Squad my full support in this matter”, plenty of e-mail has come into my box about that. A lot of the sentiment is reflected in the comments made on the earlier post. And many people are really, really angry that I took up sides with a group of atheists ...

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Now that the Viacom/YouTube situation is behind me (I hope), I’m in the process of putting together a collection of the various published news stories/blog posts about it all: from the time it began to its resolution. And I’m also working on documenting the step-by-step process that I went through to contest it, including the full text of the counterclaim.

Suffice it to say, one of the things that has happened as a result of all this is that I’m now much more interested in digital copyright matters than I was before.

So this article on Slashdot caught my eye: a pro-atheist group called the Rational Response Squad has had its YouTube account terminated after an organization called Creation Science Evangelism Ministries allegedly flooded YouTube with “false DMCA copyright requests”. The termination apparently came after the Rational Response Squad tried to contest the copyright claims (I’m assuming this means that ...

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