Copyright Office: Everyone Uses MSIE, Right?

richardtallent writes "Tim Bray caught that the United States Copyright Office's upcoming copyright pre-registration web application apparently only works with Internet Explorer, and they are seeking written comments from anyone who might have a problem being forced to use IE. Slashdotters, start your snail-mail."

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Just get the RIAA/MPAA sysadmins to deploy Firefox

[Anonymous Coward]

...and make sure the copyright office doesn't get told about it. Two birds in one stone.

Re:Be Respectful!

[SeekerDarksteel]

Dear US Copyright office:

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Isn't this like. . .

[Tachikoma]

. . .only permitting people who drive stationwagons to enter the postoffice parking lot? What genius CIO thought it would be a good idea to limit people who can use this to one, albeit large, sect of people? If I said "hey boss, lets make a great web app, but lets only let MSIE people use it because I'm incapable of making it available to more than one browser and MSIE is the whore of internet browsers and lets anything in" he would laugh at me. Then fire me. And then laugh a lot more. And then have a heart attack, but that's just my CIO...

"I'm sorry ma'am, you can only apply for a patent if you only have 1 leg."

"But I have two legs, its much more effiecient and I'm much more stable!"

"Two legs huh? That's nice but my give-a-shit is broken today, so you're going to have to handicap yourself like everyone else to use this. And you have to get in the back of the line."

Unironic (warning: sarcasm)

[bsdbigot]

The anti-copyright crowd and the anti-MSIE crowd are pretty much one in the same. A Venn diagram [venndiagram.com] of the two would probably look like a basketball in a red/green stereoscopic photo. Where's the problem? People that don't/won't use IE are likely never to transact any business with the Copyright Office, other than to deluge them with comments about how if they ever were to file for Copyright protection, they would have to *gasp* use a technology that is readily available? Unbelievable.

Re:Be Respectful!

[Anonymous Coward]

I sent them one and now have a patent for sending goatscx pictures.