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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.'"
You are right on the money, how did you get a -1 rating? Are shills for the industry perpetuating the DMCA fraud on the American Public becoming meta-moderators and rigging this so that most people will not see posts like this one?
The DMCA notices are FRAUDulent 99% of the time. They must provide PROOF, which is what the poster above was stating. This is fact. They are counting on people running scared and pulling things off the Internet without questioning the validity of the DMCA take down notices.
You do have rights in America, you should never give up your rights without a fight. Force them to prove their notice or you supporting their illegal notices.
Please someone mod the parent up, way up, people need to see the truth about Fraudulent DMCA take down notices. Also mod up posts #
#30371846 ~ this person suggested modifying the illegal DMCA take down notice and sending the modified letter back. Should not have been meta moderated negative anything.
#30371902 ~ again modification of an illegal DMCA take-down notice and sending it back...why not, I sure as heck would not relinquish my rights and admit guilt when I was not guilty, seems like a good method of civil protest, given the illegal DMCA take-down notice. Take their BS and shovel it back to them!; this poster, not anonymous, sexconker, gives a valid explanation in this post, #30373008.
#30373356 should be +5, not -1 insightful! Please fix this.
#30372050 ~ This is first hand experience, not second hand, not hearsay, why on earth does what actually happened to this individual not rate +5. A -1 Interesting, are you kidding me? Someone is using the meta-moderating system to censor responses....how dare you!
#30373196 ~ this post and the one before it, this post was an answer about the anonymous posters earlier posts and a question by another person, seems like a smart answer and further proof we, Americans, need Net Neutrality to prevent excessive abuses! Should others find themselves in this unfortunate position, this is one method to use the system to get out of it. Especially when the system is being legislated and configured to censor and control you illegally.
Here is another great post, censored via meta-moderation, pathetic, please mod it back up as it is Insightful!
#30373176 ~ makes sense to me to make the DMCA fools prove wrong doing before pulling content. Especially when you know they can not prove it!
I do not blame the above poster for being anonymous, look at how they are being censored. I am reporting you. I hope others report you. Whoever meta-moderated should be prevented from further censoring of slashdot content.
My guess is they know a -1 rating is less likely to get read, thus effectively censored. Unfortunately for you, there are people like me that read at the -1 level for this very reason.
How dare you use meta moderation for censorship of first hand experiences!
The only reason I can see for this to happen with this persons posts, is that you are a shill for the companies attempting to push the DMCA FRAUDULENT take down notices on the unsuspecting public. These tactics will NOT work with an informed populace!