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"Just as we're in the midst of a Greenhouse series all about SOPA, copyright
industry lobbyists, and former copyright industry lawyers now running the
Copyright Office are conspiring to make copyright law worse and to favor
Hollywood and give the big giant legacy copyright companies more control and
power over the internet.
And, yet, we pay almost no attention to how they massively abuse the power they
already have under copyright law to silence people. The latest example is the
book review blog,
Fantasy Book Critic. I'd link to it, but as I'm writing
this all you now see is a message that says "Sorry, the blog at
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com has been removed."
Why? Because two of the largest publishing companies in the world, Penguin
Random House and HarperCollins, hired a ridiculously incompetent service
provider called "Link-Busters" which specializes in bullshit automated DMCA
takedowns for the publishing industry. Link-Busters' website looks like
basically all of these sketchy, unreliable services, promising to "protect IP"
and (even more ridiculously) "turn piracy into profits."
The company also claims on its website that "you can be assured your work will
be protected to the fullest extent," and also: "According to multiple
independent metrics, Link-Busters quarantines and/or eliminates more pirated
content than other anti-piracy services." Of course, it's easy to get more
things taken down if you don't give a shit as to whether or not it's actually
infringing. And apparently, that is Link-Busters' secret sauce: sending bogus
DMCA takedowns for things like book review websites."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
