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To be fair, they did point out that it would be "smart and reasonable" to make a donation to the EFF and Public Citizen over this. So... I think they might have something in mind. I doubt they're going to let it pass by quietly. That company gave them a really pathetic excuse, too. They admitted to knowing their DMCA bot wasn't good enough yet, but they let it issue notices anyhow. A place like that is going to end up digging their own grave one of these days, even without TechDirt's help. I mean, I went through their notice and it looks pretty sloppily put together. There are some 555 URLs listed on that particular notice: https://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=189468 And it's very hard to see how the TechDirt post got in there, because it doesn't seem to match any of the relevant keywords. They appear to have tried to take down material relating to some movie called "Innocent High" and a group called "Team Skeet." Except that they got a lot of other random releases by Team Skeet in there, so there's what appears to be a pirated DS ROM or two, a release of Desperate Housewives and some other random stuff. It does look like stuff that's infringing upon someone's copyrights, but I have to wonder if they are "the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed" with respect to all of those things, which they swore under penalty of perjury that they were. Just what copyright interest does this place have in a crack for Kaspersky antivirus, dare I ask? There are also random PasteBins, but those at least appear to be links to torrents. There are also a few other items which do not appear to be infringing on that particular notice: item #255, which is some random forum thread on AnimeSuki where people are discussing a high school related anime, a news article by the Independent on that cruise ship captain (#250), and some digital graphics site (#251) that seems to be completely unrelated to anything. So yeah, I don't see why they'd sign off on statements from some broken keyword matching robot, knowing that it wasn't very good. |