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That page shows all the dmca requests to google that target github.com. Wicked pictures shows up in a number of requests but they are by no means the only copyright holder issuing requests.
You can click through to the request pages and get links to chilling effects and it will also tell you which URLs were requested that were _not_ taken down. ChillingEffects just reports on the requests, not the actions.
This removes a variety of projects from Google search results, including ones from Mozilla (specifically, Rust), Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix, openSUSE, as well as github documentation, e.g. - https://github.com/yahoo/pure - https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo - https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked - https://github.com/Netflix/Lipstick - https://github.com/facebook/rebound - https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non…
I wonder if a bunch of these companies might get together and sue the sender of take down for defamation, loss of business, something.
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I wonder if a bunch of these companies might get together and sue the sender of take down for defamation, loss of business, something.
Knowingly filing a false takedown is a crime, but it's pretty hard to prove. This isn't really defamation.
# curl https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10275257 | grep github
https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non-fast-forward-errors/
https://github.com/Zizzamia/ng-tasty
https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel
https://github.com/yahoo/pure/releases/
https://github.com/yahoo/pure
https://github.com/YabataDesign/afterglow-theme
https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew
https://github.com/wearefractal/glob-watcher
https://github.com/wanderlust/wanderlust
https://github.com/thombergs/wicked-charts
https://github.com/Thibauth/python-pushover
https://github.com/tcnksm/vagrant-pushover
https://github.com/substack/pushover
https://github.com/SteveSanderson/knockout-es5
https://github.com/sps/pushover4j
https://github.com/sensu/sensu-community-plugins/blob/master/handlers/notification/pushover.rb
https://github.com/schneems/wicked/wiki/Testing-Wicked-with-RSpec
https://github.com/schneems/wicked
https://github.com/satyr/coco
https://github.com/satyr
https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/546
https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
https://github.com/rniemeyer/knockout-delegatedEvents
https://github.com/rniemeyer/knockout-amd-helpers
https://github.com/qbit/node-pushover
https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked/issues/432
https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked
https://github.com/Nuku/Flexible-Survival/blob/master/Stripes/Candy
https://github.com/Netflix/Lipstick
https://github.com/nemomobile/lipstick
https://github.com/mrmrs/colors
https://github.com/mirage
https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/issues/78
https://github.com/LubosD/darling
https://github.com/laprice/pushover
https://github.com/kryap/php-pushover
https://github.com/krisselden/broccoli-sane-watcher
https://github.com/Knockout-Contrib/Knockout-Validation
https://github.com/knockout/knockout
https://github.com/knockout
https://github.com/kirang20/wgxp-java-rosa
https://github.com/jreese/znc-push/blob/master/doc/pushover.md
https://github.com/jnwatts/pushover.sh
https://github.com/jfinkels/flask-restless/
https://github.com/jasonlewis/resource-watcher
https://github.com/huxi/lilith
https://github.com/hannorein/rebound
https://github.com/gregghz/Watcher
https://github.com/feuerbach/tasty
https://github.com/facebook/rebound-js
https://github.com/facebook/rebound
https://github.com/erniebrodeur/pushover
https://github.com/entertailion/Fling/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/enkydu/raspi_runner
https://github.com/dyaa/Laravel-pushover
https://github.com/danesparza/Pushover.NET
https://github.com/crazed
https://github.com/callmenick/css-loaders-spinners-2/tree/master/js
https://github.com/callmenick/css-loaders-spinners-2
https://github.com/allure-framework/allure-core
https://github.com/abrt/satyr
We have received your legal request. We receive many such complaints each day; your message is in our queue, and we'll get to it as quickly as our workload permits.
Due to the large volume of requests that we experience, please note that we will only be able to provide you with a response if we determine your request may be a valid and actionable legal complaint, and we may respond with questions or requests for clarification. For more information on Google's Terms of Service, please visit http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS
Regards,
The Google Team
My limited understanding is that these companies just use google search apis to try to find search results matching keywords. Then they file requests for every matching url. This is how obviously wrong requests show up.
There are also cases where requests appear to be malicious, but there are really no consequences since you (iirc) have to prove bad faith which is next to impossible and since everything is being adjudicated via third parties, there is really no incentive.
Have submitted a counter-complaint (#2-4109000005746) for the following: # curl https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10275257 | grep github https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non-fast-forward-errors/ https://github.com/Zizzamia/ng-tasty https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel https://github.com/yahoo/pure/releases/ https://github.com/yahoo/pure https://github.com/YabataDesign/afterglow-theme https://gi…
This removes a variety of projects from Google search results, including ones from Mozilla (specifically, Rust), Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix, openSUSE, as well as github documentation, e.g. - https://github.com/yahoo/pure - https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo - https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked - https://github.com/Netflix/Lipstick - https://github.com/facebook/rebound - https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non…
Unfortunately, it does not list the individual lawyer who signed off on this complaint, or I would be tempted to draft a letter to their local bar association pointing out how careless they are, as no reasonable person could mistake Github's documentation for a porno movie.
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Knowingly filing a false takedown is a crime, but it's pretty hard to prove. This isn't really defamation.
Legal question - If you send a bad DMCA and can't be proven to have sent it in bad faith (so the penalties under that law don't apply), could you still be sued for negligence, loss of business, etc etc? I.e. you didn't break the federal law, but you still damaged me.
This removes a variety of projects from Google search results, including ones from Mozilla (specifically, Rust), Facebook, Yahoo, Netflix, openSUSE, as well as github documentation, e.g. - https://github.com/yahoo/pure - https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo - https://github.com/openSUSE/wicked - https://github.com/Netflix/Lipstick - https://github.com/facebook/rebound - https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non…
Then of course, you could package that reverse-engineering work as a service that will insert red-herring comments in source code to set off the automated DMCA takedowns, creating a free semi-private repository on github.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Knowingly filing a false takedown is a crime, but it's pretty hard to prove. This isn't really defamation.
Legal question - If you send a bad DMCA and can't be proven to have sent it in bad faith (so the penalties under that law don't apply), could you still be sued for negligence, loss of business, etc etc? I.e. you didn't break the federal law, but you still damaged me.
Falsely claiming to hold copyright in a work to which you do not hold copyright may open the possibility for slander of title (which was one of the claims in the SCO lawsuit).
I would be interested to see some sufficiently-deep-pocketed entity try to use that to turn an automated-DMCA-complaint house into a smoking hole in the ground, pour encourager les autres.