I mean I'm glad it exists, don't get me wrong. Just weird that they'd have two status pages, one seemingly existing only to sort of 'mock' themselves...
It's just strange.
(Using copyrighted material is permitted under fair use; this website is a parody. I’m not a lawyer but at some level preserving the copyright notice is probably better than claiming it as their own.)
You may say that the original work is copyright of the respective owners and that this is a parody work. But that's not what the site is doing. The footer contains the original, unaltered copyright, creating confusion as to who owns the derived work. Amazon does not own this, nor do they endorse it, so you're not allowed to say it's copyrighted by Amazon.
Being concerned for the proper respect of IP laws is something that benefits everyone.
Your argument would have a small amount of merit if you acknowledged that the laws DO NOT protect people like they do corporations. That is a hollow ideal, not reality.
Regardless of your pointed comment, I'm operating in the land of legal objectivity. The law doesn't care about your feelings much.
> Nope. Because these laws also protect people who make such websites from the corporations they're commenting on, too.
My response is that your assumption is very obviously wrong: the law does not protect individuals and corporations alike.
That’s all.
That is a weird understanding of what I said, and I don't really think you're arguing in good faith here. There's a lot of bias so I am choosing to not further this conversation.
That's warped view of the world. A corporation can always take you to court and harass the crap out of you, the court will side with your defense because you were right and claimant was wrong, you had the right to do what you did.
And consumers are clearly deceived - hence why my original comment asking about it was written and has several upvotes.
It is also clearly not satire. That would not hold up in court, and there are many instances where they have tried that angle and failed.
Amazon has much bigger legal issues to focus on than some satire.
Speeding? Basically a national past-time at this point.
Misrepresentation, common fraud, and misappropriation? Par for the course in most small businesses.
It's only a crime if someone gives enough of a shit to do something about it; otherwise, it's just life.
Apparently it does some simple transformations of the actual status page, which is why the Amazon copyright stuff is in there.
He also has a decent newsletter and witty commentary, for all things AWS.
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