Comments on: Why Record Labels Want Kim Dotcom’s Album Taken Down

By: Aktuelles: Zalando, Podcasts, Apple Watch

Aktuelles: Zalando, Podcasts, Apple Watch — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:04:54 +0000

[…] Why Record Labels Want Kim Dotcom’s Album Taken Down | TorrentFreak “The above is concerning for several reasons. First of all, it shows that IFPI and others don’t verify the legitimacy of their takedown notices. This means that pranksters can easily get them to censor legitimate content. Secondly, Mega usually can’t check the validity of a claim, or it simply doesn’t know whether or not a user has permission to publish it. So they have very little options to stop the abuse.” […]

By: You Fail Again

You Fail Again — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:12:00 +0000

Pretty much — see Media Parasites example of a pastebin up above which contains all the earmarks of piracy, yet points to only legit sites. It has to be set up properly for it to work (which we don’t yet know if his has).

Since the IFPI morons don’t check what their algorithm selects, it should pass muster as legitimate pirate content URLs.

By: You Fail Again

You Fail Again — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:06:00 +0000

I don’t know of anyone who has ever been taken to court for DMCA abuse.

However, if they were, you would be a fine judge.

I know that “the computer” didn’t really do it on its own (as you state), but there are people who get away with using this excuse all the time.

People are given that crap answer when talking to their bank about why a transaction wasn’t posted to their account in a proper, timely manner — and other things related to that — which usually does something in the bank’s favor.

We can only hope that someone soon will be made a fine example of how not to abuse DMCA.

By: Lord of the Files

Lord of the Files — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 08:49:00 +0000

If I were a judge and someone tried to use “the computer did it” as an excuse, I’d thank them for admitting responsibility. When they stand there looking dumbfounded by this remark, I’d go on to explain that I know computers are ultimately designed for one single task; to follow all instructions given to them by programmer and/or user. Since both are human and a computer can do nothing without either, I’d go on to ask for the identity of the exact person or persons responsible for giving their computer(s) bad instructions so they could be summoned to answer some very simple questions in my courtroom, the answers to which being how I’d ultimately determine guilt and course of action to take.

The provision against abuse found within the DMCA is there for good reason and I’d make sure those in front of me understand this without question, particularly when dismissing a case, which I’d most likely do for first time offenders. I’d make certain they also understood that the court won’t be so lenient next time. For those whom prove to be repeat offenders, as well as those who are proven by plaintiff to have caused real monetary loss with their shinanigans, well I think you can guess what I’d do with them. After all, sometimes a few really good examples need to be made in order to get people to take these things seriously.

By: DiD

DiD — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:39:00 +0000

Good one :)

By: Kenton

Kenton — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:44:00 +0000

And Lots and Lots of Pastebins.

By: Kenton

Kenton — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 04:40:00 +0000

You would be able to check Video just as easily by using an Audio Fingerprint, because all copies of the movie should have roughly the same audio. For software, I would suggest looking at file names, as well as MD5/SHA1 Values for the files that are provided – Making sure to decompress the file first of course. But all of this doesn’t change the fact that it is a computer doing it – there NEEDS to be human oversight, someone checking each report to make sure they aren’t about to fuck up.

By: Paul Simon

Paul Simon — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 03:00:00 +0000

bl00dy John Keys at it again.. heh..

anything to get at dotcom now by creating fake dmcas

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:30:00 +0000

If pastebin has an API, I might whip up a script and automate it.

By: Guest9001

Guest9001 — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:59:00 +0000

It might be possible to launch a class action lawsuit if we could get the content owners of the 25% false DMCA take down to work together.

Unlike the MAFIAA’s claims of losing vast sums of money; total real revenue lost could be in the billions for all these people. Based on $5-10 per false DMCA take down. There is enough potential revenue to fund a class action law suit for a major law firm.

I’ve been saying it for years class action lawsuits are a way to fight back. Hit them in the courts, boycott them, develop encrypted anonymous services, and get a campaign 10 times the size of SOPA/PIPA demanding the end IP.

Really we should be demanding the end of monopolies in general not just IP. Ending monopolies would solve half the worlds problems.