https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2016-05-23T12:46:50+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23/copyright-law-internet-mumsnet?CMP=share_btn_tw jmIn fact, no copyright infringement had occurred at all. Instead, something weirder had happened. At some point after Narey posted her comments on Mumsnet, someone had copied the entire text of one of her posts and pasted it, verbatim, to a spammy blog titled “Home Improvement Tips and Tricks”. The post, headlined “Buildteam interior designers” was backdated to September 14 2015, three months before Narey had written it, and was signed by a “Douglas Bush” of South Bend, Indiana. The website was registered to someone quite different, though: Muhammed Ashraf, from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Quite why Douglas Bush or Muhammed Ashraf would be reviewing a builder based in Clapham is not explained in “his” post. BuildTeam says it has no idea why Narey’s review was reposted, but that it had nothing to do with it. “At no material times have we any knowledge of why this false DCMA take down was filed, nor have we contracted any reputation management firms, or any individual or a group to take such action on our behalf. Finally, and in conjunction to the above, we have never spoken with a ‘Douglas Bush,’ or a ‘Muhammed Ashraf.’” ]]> fraud censorship mumsnet dmca takedowns google automation copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6965697186a8/ 2015-09-28T09:34:01+00:00 http://www.wired.com/2015/09/epa-opposes-rules-couldve-exposed-vws-cheating/ jm[...] Two months ago, the EPA opposed some proposed measures that would help potentially expose subversive code like the so-called “defeat device” software VW allegedly used by allowing consumers and researchers to legally reverse-engineer the code used in vehicles. EPA opposed this, ironically, because the agency felt that allowing people to examine the software code in vehicles would potentially allow car owners to alter the software in ways that would produce more emissions in violation of the Clean Air Act. The issue involves the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), which prohibits anyone from working around “technological protection measures” that limit access to copyrighted works. The Library of Congress, which oversees copyrights, can issue exemptions to those prohibitions that would make it legal, for example, for researchers to examine the code to uncover security vulnerabilities. ]]> dmca volkswagen vw law code open-source air-quality diesel cheating regulation us-politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9f3478ec3465/ 2015-07-11T20:21:29+00:00 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/07/nz-digital-communications-act-considered-very-harmful jm eff new-zealand nz hdc-act dmca trolls https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:647ef4428e66/ 2014-10-06T22:10:26+00:00 https://twitter.com/mperham/status/518796150733033472 jm copyright dmca tildeslash monit inspeqtor github ops oss agpl https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dfe1c710c030/ 2013-01-27T21:12:35+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/fox-dmca-takedowns-demand-google-to-remove-fox-dmca-takedowns-110307/ jmChilling Effects is setup to stop the ‘chilling effects’ of Internet censorship. Google sees this as a good thing and sends takedown requests it receives to be added to the database. Fox sends takedown requests to Google for pages which the company says contain links to material it holds the copyright to. Those pages include those on Chilling Effects which show which links Fox wants taken down. Google delists the Chilling Effects pages from its search engine, thus completing the circle and defeating the very reason Chilling Effects was set up for in the first place. ]]> chilling-effects copyright internet legal dmca google law https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7dc29adde5cd/ 2012-08-06T20:24:45+00:00 http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown#.UCAPW8hREw8.twitter jmAn hour or so after Curiosity’s 1.31 a.m. EST landing in Gale Crater, I noticed that the space agency’s main YouTube channel had posted a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. Its title was in an uncharacteristic but completely justified all caps: “NASA LANDS CAR-SIZE ROVER BESIDE MARTIAN MOUNTAIN.” When I returned to the page ten minutes later, [...] the video was gone, replaced with an alien message: “This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.” That is to say, a NASA-made public domain video posted on NASA’s official YouTube channel, documenting the landing of a $2.5 billion Mars rover mission paid for with public taxpayer money, was blocked by YouTube because of a copyright claim by a private news service. ]]> dmca google fail nasa copyright false-positives scripps youtube video mars https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:527401b800af/ 2012-05-25T14:54:33+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud jm copyright rights ip fraud copyfraud wikipedia words terminology neologisms dmca infringement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fa0d3e0b23e/ 2012-03-03T23:10:12+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120223/15102217856/key-techdirt-sopapipa-post-censored-bogus-dmca-takedown-notice.shtml jm techdirt dmca copyright sopa sopaireland armovore dirty-tricks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cb7d0d237db3/ 2012-03-02T23:08:27+00:00 http://waxy.org/2012/03/youtube_bypasses_the_dmca/ jm youtube dmca rumblefish birdsong copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9fd2850b411f/ 2011-04-25T22:11:15+00:00 http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/ jm security filesharing dropbox online-backup online-storage p2p hashes sha dmca https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b50dc4eee992/