[moremetadata]

This is another DMCA take down, with lazy judges imposing their ignorance on those they can impose it on and not the criminals.

Sony should be going after the web hosters, but then Sony have a history of interpreting the law their way when they included a Rootkit on CD's [1].

Similar situatians can be seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34952313 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34659768

Maybe Quad9 needs Pirate Bay's lawyers, if this isnt a subtle revenue generating exercise? https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-proxy-defeats-polices-gi...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

[trvz]

> This is another DMCA take down, with lazy judges imposing their ignorance on those they can impose it on and not the criminals.

The court location has specifically been chosen because of its friendliness towards copyright holders.

Sony is not being lazy or stupid here, but malicious.

[Hikikomori]

DMCA in Germany?

[betaby]

Developed countries have DMCA copycats. For Germany see 97a https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_ur...