Want to beat Google at its own game? Introducing the ‘Robo DMCA’ avalanche, brought to you by Hollywood, major labels, and other media giants. | Paul Resnikoff | _______________ # ! … of going against a Search Engine instead of facing the pages that # ! harbor the (‘presumed’) offending contents… [Clue: #HollywoodvsSiliconValley…] ______ [Source: … Continue reading
HBO, Paramount Pictures and other copyright holders are sending takedown notices for torrent links that have never existed. The notices accuse sites of distributing recent movies and TV-shows. However, the services in question have been down for a year, showing that anti-piracy groups automatically generate links based on hashes without any verification. | Ernesto | ____________ … Continue reading
Popular code repository GitHub has just published its transparency report for 2015. While receiving a relatively modest 12 subpoenas for user data last year, the site also handed seven gag orders. It also received large numbers of DMCA notices which took down more than 8,200 projects. | Andy | __________ # ! … #IntellectualProperty -and … Continue reading
The Internet Archive has issued its sternest warning yet over proposed changes to the DMCA. The Archive says that ‘Notice and Staydown’ would be an “absolute disaster” for the Internet that would trample due process, promote user monitoring, censorship, and have First Amendment implications. | Andy | _________ # ! … ☠ The Real #Danger are … Continue reading
The world’s biggest copyright holders send Google millions of DMCA notices each week, many of them sent by the most notable anti-piracy companies around. But for reasons best known to themselves, hundreds of thousands being processed by Google are completely useless and a waste of time and money.
Source: torrentfreak.com
# ! … #against #information #technologies themselves…
# ! … once more.
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