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Well, if you understood their motivation for this post, you wouldn't.

> We’d love to work with you Al-Jazeera. But not like this.

> So how about starting over and signing up for an account.

> We will even keep that eggplant emoji in there for you.

> We look forward to hearing from you.




That isn't directed at Al-Jazeera though. If they wanted Al-Jazeera to sign up, they would not have started with a DMCA.

This is pure marketing. They go out of their way to explain what features their product has and why it is beneficial to sign up. If they get even just 2 new sign-ups with this article, it has already paid off. The "our service is great!" message is not there to remedy things with Al-Jazeera.


Well, it appears they didn't start with a DMCA.


This. It would have been perfect opportunity to pitch their product but decided to make a fiasco put of it. I'm surprised they didn't start serving dick pictures to Al Jazeera from their server to get even more attention and 'new customers' .




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