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Questionable "Best Effort" Copyright Enforcement
pmdubs writes "Princeton University Professor Michael Freedman, creator of CoralCDN, discusses how he received around 100 pre-settlement letters in one month from various copyright agencies after invalid BitTorrent tracker requests were issued through CoralCDN's proxies. Interestingly, the participating agencies made no effort whatsoever to verify that the Coral nodes were actually running BitTorrent, which they weren't! He questions just how much effort agencies take to reduce false positives when it comes to DMCA notices. Considering the credence that network operators give to such notices (they'll often cut your service upon receipt), it would seem that the answer is 'not enough.'"
... as Corel ... and it got me reminiscing about the Penguin that came with the Corel WordPerfect® Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux. Enjoy!
My toilet is exploding, how do I stop it? Everywhere...shit! Everywhere...urine! Everywhere...faeces! If only my toilet was OSS, and its users could have inspected its source, this would never have happened.
The incentives for sending the takedown notice are multiple, and there are no consequences when you're wrong. At least, none that anyone pursues.
Hate me for the comparison, but this is exactly what happened to Gov. Palin during and after the 2008 presidential race. A handful of people filed baseless ethics complaints based on an Alaska law she helped pass to bring sunlight to government corruption. They filed complaints, and filed more of them. Sometimes for really stupid stuff (read the book). I mean, why not? There are no consequences and no costs (other than your own time) for doing so, even if you're just making shit up. The result was that the Alaska state government was virtually brought to a halt by the paperwork. Yes, "good" whatever. That isn't the point.
The point is that if filing DMCA take-down notices, ethics complaints, or lawsuits without merit or basis have no consequences then our legal system is a joke. If you're an asshole, trying to use the legal system to bully someone either negligently or maliciously, then you should face your own medicine. If you file a patently ridiculous lawsuit and lose, you pay damages. No more of this BS of tying up individuals and businesses for years in legal wrangling until the "defendant" cries uncle. This also includes the extortion "settlement" letters by RIAA, MPAA, and the BSA. If you don't make your case, you pay. If you've filed a claim you know to be false, then you pay double. Simple.
There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.
I love proxies,unlimited emails and the fact i can even change my mac id, good things you say. Not for Slashdot who has indeed proved the free speech thing wrong and it is all saved. want proof i'll show you,ive got it. I might even take it to my lawyer's office, hay i need the money who doesnt, i wonder how serious this Free Speech thing is you denied it to me, Btw you need to put were everyone can see all comments and even articles Are Not Fact and we are not giving you information all the time that is "Fact" Fact is thats not what slashdot is about, just suggestion. I already know that but it should be seen on every page. And it seems everyone loves windows here, put a windows section here it might get results. Put this Offtopic btw it had nothing to do with the topic