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Fuck the MAFIAA, they're not the only one who matters. This is a problem for any US company.
Well, "any US company" can't coordinate well enough with "any other US company" to bribe the Congress and fix it, therefore they fall prey to the ones that can coordinate to maintain the status quo.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940883 https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/1724976
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Well, "any US company" can't coordinate well enough with "any other US company" to bribe the Congress and fix it, therefore they fall prey to the ones that can coordinate to maintain the status quo.
That is why they don't have takedown laws like this in Europe, because you can't just bribe the government.
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Actually, this was sent by "Takedown Piracy LLC" working on behalf of Wickedpictures. They file DMCA notices by the truckload according to the results I get in Chilling Effect's search, so you can safely assume they're a DMCA notice spammer. 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 ca…
Rule 34.
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That is why they don't have takedown laws like this in Europe, because you can't just bribe the government.
But then again, we still have to go to streets to prevent the government from passing stupid stuff like ACTA.
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The standard is one of actual knowledge -- so it's really difficult to enforce when a computer program is most likely generating the lists, and probably not being reviewed in detail.
Send one communication saying "your bot is clearly throwing up false positives; take action to investigate & remediate, ceasing all bot usage until implemented". Now they're aware / can't claim lack of knowledge. Give them a week or two to read the mail & turn the bot off, then any subsequent requests charge them for. If the fine's based on damages, charge them for all employees time taken to trawl through removing a…
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Well, "any US company" can't coordinate well enough with "any other US company" to bribe the Congress and fix it, therefore they fall prey to the ones that can coordinate to maintain the status quo.
That is why they don't have takedown laws like this in Europe, because you can't just bribe the government.
https://github.com/knockout/knockout/issues/1674#issuecommen...