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Google's Information On DMCA Takedown Abuse

Posted by samzenpus on from the hassle-your-way-to-the-top dept.

Binestar writes "According to a PC World article, Google has submitted a brief to New Zealand about its proposed copyright law (section 92A). "In its submission, Google notes that more than half (57%) of the takedown notices it has received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998, were sent by business targeting competitors and over one third (37%) of notices were not valid copyright claims.""

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  1. Re:Note to summary writer... by quickOnTheUptake · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I found 2 occurences of the forms in question (actually 2 occurencese of one, and none of the other):

    In its submission

    about its proposed

    Both are possessive. Both are correct. Did they change TFS? Or did OP screw up?

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  2. Re:Note to summary writer... by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, I'm undoing five moderation points to comment on this. Thai is a language without spaces or punctuation. I'm relatively fluent. Reading is a PITA. It requires special word-parsing libraries (libthai on your Linux setup -- Thanks, Mr. Choke) to get line wrap to work correctly. There is great opportunity for misunderstanding.

    It's not a great way to go.

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