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EDIT: Tried to clarify that I am not limiting the scope of the question to DMCA takedowns and DMCA cease and desists. Rather DMCA takedowns and general cease and desists.
I do not understand why a payment processing company would be receiving general cease & desist requests or DMCA takedown requests. What am I missing? EDIT: Tried to clarify that I am not limiting the scope of the question to DMCA takedowns and DMCA cease and desists. Rather DMCA takedowns and general cease and desists.
First I've heard of Chilling Effects. Their website ( http://chillingeffects.org ) looks like a conspiracy theory website, but I guess take-down requests are rather conspiratorial.
I do not understand why a payment processing company would be receiving general cease & desist requests or DMCA takedown requests. What am I missing? EDIT: Tried to clarify that I am not limiting the scope of the question to DMCA takedowns and DMCA cease and desists. Rather DMCA takedowns and general cease and desists.
If you look, you'll see that the DMCA is not mentioned anywhere in this post. They're receiving demands that they stop serving certain users, not to take down copyrighted content.
I believe AngelList also does this with Chilling Effects.
First I've heard of Chilling Effects. Their website ( http://chillingeffects.org ) looks like a conspiracy theory website, but I guess take-down requests are rather conspiratorial.
Sounds like a great opportunity for a designer to redesign the site for fun and portfolio.
I do not understand why a payment processing company would be receiving general cease & desist requests or DMCA takedown requests. What am I missing? EDIT: Tried to clarify that I am not limiting the scope of the question to DMCA takedowns and DMCA cease and desists. Rather DMCA takedowns and general cease and desists.
This is great news. > we’re adding a clause that commits us (when possible) to first notify the user if we’re legally compelled by a litigant or government to disclose a user’s private information The only additional thing I would like to see is an additional commitment to use all legal means to fight gag orders when they're present.
Do you happen to know what these means are? For a national security letter my understanding is that the company can't tell anyone and for other lesser gag orders it might be impossible to even contact the EFF for assistance.
1) Sue the US government to fight the order.
2) Use technical workarounds to inform your users without breaking the law. For example, rsync.net has a signed notice that they haven't been served a warrant: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt