Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles

First time accepted submitter ios and web coder writes "From the article: 'A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many other issues) the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher's career, found all of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. The reason? A small site based in India apparently copied all of the posts, claimed them as their own, then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the originals pulled from their source. As of now, the originals are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.' This is extremely worrying. Even though the original story is careful not to make accusations, I will. This sure smells like a 'Reputation Defense' dirty trick."

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American Problems

[xiando]

This would and could not have happened if the site in question was hosted anywhere but in the United States of Fascism. The DMCA is a stupid US thing. I used to have servers in the US myself way back when. Many years have passed since I decided to avoid having anything to do with that dictatorship with an illusion of freedom at all cost.