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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.
This is why DMCA is broken. Too easy for false claims. It’s plagued the music industry, YouTube, and now free software.
I should say my personal hobby is walking into libertarian communities, asking if there's such a thing as intellectual property, then walking out whistling.
Can Canonical get involved on this person's behalf?
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/nkztyv/comment/gzfsi...
Does the link to alledged infringing content say what? It would be interesting to see what they say is their copyright which was violated by ubuntu.iso
how about each of us writes a very polite letter to those guys explaining why this was a bad idea?
There is an infinitely small chance of collisions - but I would like them to produce a DMCA notice with the actual name of the infringed upon protected media, not just the hash.
I believe Canonical should step in, since this is someone claiming to act to protect their interests.
[0] https://torrent.ubuntu.com/tracker_index
Edit: searching for the hash returns two odd links; the first one is indexed by Google as a link to a software - Rebirth - that comes under the same hash as Ubuntu [1]; the other is the usual Lumen link for removed content [2] -- a DMCA notice from Disney.
Could this be a case of "automated DMCA notice" gone wrong?
[1] https://kat.rip/torrent/4ba4fbf7231a3a660e86892707d25c135533... [2] https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/22636605?access_token=...
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 abus…