The Fallout From a Flickr DMCA Takedown

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 5, 2012 @10:14AM from the potholes-on-the-information-superhighway dept.

Maddog Batty writes "Dave Gorman, UK comic and Flickr user, recently received a DMCA takedown notice for one of his own pictures which had become rather popular — 160,000 views + lots of comments. The takedown was in error (from a porn company) and Flickr allowed him to repost the image. However, the fallout is that all the original comments are now lost and the many links to the original picture are now broken. Sure, Flickr needed to remove the image, but shouldn't there be a way to reinstate it while keeping all the original comments and links?"

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Re:Actually by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-05 10:33 · Score: 3, Funny

You're talking about logic, which falls into the same realm as unicorns and fairies for most people...
Re:Of course there should by Lumpy · 2012-03-05 11:23 · Score: 4, Funny

"The question is quantifying them. "
100 billion US dollars should work, the RIAA and MPAA can claim such absurd numbers, why cant this guy?

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