Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Post by kasabali » Wed, May 26, 2021, 8:07 AM UTC

Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO
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Post by BelenusMordred » Wed, May 26, 2021, 8:21 AM UTC

Things like this show there really should be a significant cost to wasting the courts time and that it simply doesn't exist right now.

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Post by medstrom » Wed, May 26, 2021, 8:32 AM UTC

BelenusMordred wrote: post #2

Things like this show there really should be a significant cost to wasting the courts time and that it simply doesn't exist right now.

Let's be clear that there is, for individuals. For firms maybe not, but they could also rely on just never going to court - because it costs too much for who would take them to court.

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Post by Glavnokoman » Wed, May 26, 2021, 8:47 AM UTC

how about each of us writes a very polite letter to those guys explaining why this was a bad idea?

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Post by rolph » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:06 AM UTC

this could get very interesting if a lot of people get such a copyright notice, and any actual damages follow, such as ISP disconnection

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Post by gabereiser » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:06 AM UTC

This is why DMCA is broken. Too easy for false claims. It’s plagued the music industry, YouTube, and now free software.

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Post by azalemeth » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:17 AM UTC

Can Canonical get involved on this person's behalf?

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Post by jonatron » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC

Link to image, because reddit is slow: https://i.redd.it/jzf5jegdyb171.png

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Post by durnygbur » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

One doesn't know how stressful and infuriating these copyright notices are until one lived in a country with internet hijacked by copyright predators. From the moment of receiving such notice there is only stress, misinformation, and verbal abuse. Thanks Americans.

PS. It doesn't matter you downloaded free software, every person you'll contact in the process of straightening this out will be equally clueless and abusive.

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Post by trhway » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:35 AM UTC

jonatron wrote: post #8

Link to image, because reddit is slow: https://i.redd.it/jzf5jegdyb171.png

interesting that Comcast immediately directs the user to delete the file and doesn't even list an option to counter the claim. The trolls are constantly looking and probing for a weak spot, and with high probability they have just found another one - large stupid ISPs like Comcast. Now they only need to scare Comcast into automating the disconnections YouTube style and/or collecting the small settlement fee under the threat of disconnection (or for reconnection) and bingo - perpetuum mobile of a money printing machine.