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EFF Rates Which Service Providers Side With Users

Posted by Soulskill on from the harvesting-goodwill dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued a report grading online service providers for how well they side with users over intellectual property disputes. They looked at sites like YouTube, Imgur, tumblr, and Twitter. "The services could receive a maximum of five stars, based on criteria including publicly documented procedures for responses to DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices, how the services handle trademark disputes, and if the company issued detailed transparency reports." Only two sites got a perfect rating: WordPress and Namecheap. tumblr got the worst score, and Imgur was not far behind. The rest of the sites were in between, though the EFF did give a bit of extra credit to Etsy for its educational guides and Twitter for its transparency reports.

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  1. I'd much rather see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The big companies that issued these takedown requests. How many they issued, what percentage were denied (most likely from indiscriminate mass takedowns) and how open these companies are to people using their IP in creative ways (parodies, remixes, commentary, etc.)

  2. No NSA bitch rating? by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How they respond to DMCA notices is a pretty minor consideration when they all still fall to their knees in response to "National Security" letters and keep all that nice and secret.

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    1. Re:No NSA bitch rating? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      The EFF is deeply involved in the legal fight against National Security Letters. NSL's tie the hands of service providers by their very nature and there is little they can do about any one NSL. But by working with the EFF, they have been able to stand up a strong foundation in the fight to have NSL's declared unconstitutional.

      Read the FAQ, and make a donation.

  3. Re:THEY LIVE! Their signal is everywhere! by NotDrWho · · Score: 2

    We have one who can see.

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  4. Twitter by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    The EFF did give a bit of extra credit to [...] Twitter for its transparency reports.

    Yeah but Twitter's transparency reports all looked like this:
    iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACAAAAAgAQAAAABbAUdZAAAAAnRSTlMAAQGU/a4AAAAPSURBVHgBY/zPwMAwiAkAMVYgAbG9fX0AAAAASUVORK5CYII=

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  5. Re:THEY LIVE! Their signal is everywhere! by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

    OBEY

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  6. Youtube got any stars, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    How did YouTube get ANY stars? Is the EFF just going by the pretty documents that they put on their About Us page or something? Do they not view the actual practices?

    1. Re:Youtube got any stars, really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Youtube just hands over takedown control to random scumbag companies which then proceed to abuse it left and right.