>oil company hires PR firm to make an article exactly like yours and puts it up on the internet and puts a timestamp with an earlier date than your article
>PR firm then files with your ISP under the digital millennium copyright act to take down the content
>Your ISP has no choice but to follow through with the request,
>your only recourse is to try and prove yourself innocent by filing for reinstatement
>corporations governments and similar shady dealers have power to suppress stories about them
welcome to the world of the digital millennium copyright act
Well that's a new one. And seems very stupid, isn't that easily verifiable? Need new internet.
Dylan Butler
who are you refereing about here?
Jordan Ward
Yikes South Africa, a nation known for freedom and rule of law. Just kidding its known for death mobs. And voted 2020's most likely hot genocide location.
Hudson Young
the newspaper is prominent South African Newspaper Mail & Guardian
The ISP is Linode
The shady oil dealer is Eyong who was deported from America for impersonating a congressman and is being investigated in Africa for money laundering
they have a full story about him here - or at least they did until it was taken down
This tactic is common under the DMCA because you need to hire a lawyer to respond to the takedown notice, and lots of smaller publications can't afford that so the article just stays down. The bigger ones are already owned, paid for with advertising and controlled by the powers that be so this pretty much gives them control over everything the public sees and hears in the media
Aaron Brown
How does /news/ feel about this?
Jose Butler
But ISP doesn't have to enforce DMCA. Their duty is to forward the letter to you. That's what cloudflare does.
Bentley Cox
CloudFlare isn't an isp, mate.
Julian Parker
I think he's saying that if an ISP passes a DMCA on to Cloudflare then Cloudflare will just take it down?
Lucas Hill
The persons that are enforcing copyright laws have to be fucking put into a concentracion camp and be burned down, I hate these people. DMCA is just a fucking global joke.
Jaxson Clark
Everything that goes on a computer is just a number. Why can they copyright numbers?
Landon Parker
in what world are ISPs required to react to DMCA requests or take down anyone's site without a warranr holy shit will someone just educate these bunch of retards already
Isaiah Thompson
Don't give them the idea. > Warner bros has now copyrighted numbers
Because they are retards > Oh nooo, we don't want a lawsuit so we don't ask any questions and do what we are told to do like a little bitch
Kayden Lee
South Africa was the closest thing to resemble wakanda, but only up until the niggers ruined it.
Wyatt Cruz
Copyrights are a nigger. They have never benefited anyone other than those who are already ultra rich.
>>oil company hires PR firm to make an article exactly like yours and puts it up on the internet and puts a timestamp with an earlier date than your article Yeah, this doesn't really work. Misuse of DMCA is literally a crime, so if they did it you could easily sue them and win, because proving the article wasn't actually published on the date claimed is child's play.
>isn't that easily verifiable? Not currently. There'd need to be a webarchive specifically created and monitored for legitimacy where courts could use for this sort of thing. Until then, using the existing 3rd party webarchives would be hit or miss and considered easily downplayed in court.
Parker Howard
t. no clue what you're talking about t. underageb& who thinks the law applies to people equally
Justin Watson
>Misuse of DMCA is literally a crime kek the DMCA is a crime made legal
Benjamin Adams
Easy, sue them for damages. Or did you forget that when you file DMCA you are filling under penalty of perjury. Judge will destroy the company. I love the court system.
Jaxson Rivera
>I love the court system
You are too optimistic user. Perjury isn't a civil suit its criminal and I've never heard of anyone getting charged with perjury for a fake DMCA notice. There might be a civil suit for money loses to u suffered from the takedown but it would likely be small potatoes - small enough that it wouldn't be worth it to hire a lawyer
