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Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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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…

Is suing for moral damage out of the question?

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

#22

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

I went to a store recently and asked why they haven't a product I ordered a time ago, listed on the website anymore. She said, she used pictures from the producing company. But now she got a letter, so she is now not anymore allowed to use the pictures. She can't make all pictures by herself because there are so many models and colors, so she just stop sell products from that brand complete. I didn't ask if it was re…

Shoot in foot, nail to the floor, repeat on other foot. It is quite possible that a free lance copyright drone did this. The company would hardly do it to themselves = kill all sales as per example.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

#23

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…

In Germany, thier is a whole army of lawyers seeding copyrighted material on torrents to extract money

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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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…

From what I remember Comcast already has the "Sandvine" technology that automatically disconnects torrent clients. I have no idea if it is in use any longer.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Interesting tidbit: the hash they have for the infringed work it's the correct hash for ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso [0] - this removes any good faith argument on their part. 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 cla…

I was interested and also searched the hash ( 4ba4fbf7231a3a660e86892707d25c135533a16a ).

I didn't see the second link you posted? and I can't find the hash by CTRL+F on the page when clicking the link?

Am I missing something?

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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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

The copyright holder doesn't need to provide that level of information to send a copyright claim, they just need to say that a violation has occured.

That is so messed up. A non state institution can non only claim you committed an offense, but it doesn't even have to justify itself.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

#27

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…

In Germany, thier is a whole army of lawyers seeding copyrighted material on torrents to extract money

Has any other lawyer tried to sue them?

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

#28

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.

In sensible places, they'd at least be on the hook for both sides' legal fees.

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

#29

Hmmm. Linux, and intellectual property. 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.

> Hmmm. Linux, and intellectual property.

What are you trying to say?

Re: Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for downloading Ubuntu ISO

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Germany, thier is a whole army of lawyers seeding copyrighted material on torrents to extract money

Has any other lawyer tried to sue them?

Both copyright predator and counter copyright predator industries are huge in Germany. These two together will absorb any volume of money you'll throw at them.
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