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by UserRights 4189 days ago
Is there an API / webservice that could help developers check for the latest torrents / binaries / badstuff and prevent that upload? The millions of dollars that went into copyright wars certainly brought up something useful, but I can not find it.

Or is the dmca-related workload just the right anti-growth measure to prevent interesting new things coming up?

How do you explain this to your investors: "The site is technically ok and we are growing, but we need money for some people to handle dmca requests and this kills our business modell."

So many cool ideas are blocked because of the retarded dinosaur-politics of corporate stalinism. We need a real breakthrough here for a jump to the next level. Current copyright laws are protecting the wealth of a very small group of people but do seriously damage the development of new industries and thousands of jobs. Stupid.