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Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by userbinator on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:52AM (#14978382)
Thanks, just added it to my HOSTS file...

I don't know if the Streisand Effect is going to happen with this one, but it seems very odd that the DMCA could even be applicable here.

Edit: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#domain

Can I copyright my domain name?

Copyright law does not protect domain names.

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by snsr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:30AM (#14978590)
> it seems very odd that the DMCA could even be applicable here

This is an invalid takedown request.

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by dweekly on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:11AM (#14980476)
Diebold was sued successfully many years ago for DMCA abuse under 512f. See OPG v Diebold. EFF prosecuted and did a great job. Use this precedent!

Disclaimer: I was the plaintiff.

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by paulgb on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#14980782)
On behalf of everyone who has benefited from the precedent, thanks for fighting it! The EFF helped me with a DMCA abuse that threatened to escalate a few years ago and cited that case in the response.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by dweekly on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:12PM (#14982483)
EFF detail - https://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold

Note that HN has an issue linking to Wikipedia pages ending in a period, so add a '.' after this URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold....

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by jwilk on Friday August 11, 2017 @12:09PM (#14991226)
Someone was kind enough to set up a redirect. :)

You can URL-encode the last character to make HN happy, i.e.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Policy_Group_v._Diebold...

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by jwilk on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:46PM (#14982201)
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by skywhopper on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:46AM (#14979562)
It isn't, but legal threats have chilling effects.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by _dcwr on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:21AM (#14979931)
It isn't legal but USA has an interesting (as in the curse "may you live in interesting times") legal system where this is rampant and no one will ever be punished for it.

Companies use it to hide criticism (VW with emission, game developers with reviews, etc.) and YouTube is full of whining on their idiotic quasi-DMCA process where companies can claim and then take down or monetize content they don't own (Kevin MacLeod's royalty free music, public domain music, static noise, game reviews that conain gameplay and are negative, etc.) and you have to dispute it and provide your real life details to Google as if they are a court to make it go away.

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by NoGravitas on Thursday August 10, 2017 @06:52AM (#14978389)
Yeah, first thing I did was add it to my uBlock filters.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by jasonkostempski on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:14AM (#14980509)
Is just adding the line:

||functionalclam.com^$third-party

to "My Filters" the right way to do it?

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by NoGravitas on Friday August 11, 2017 @08:11AM (#14988801)
I think so.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by bahjoite on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:15AM (#14978505)
do you have any services running on the address to which you point such names or do you let the request time out?
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by userbinator on Thursday August 10, 2017 @07:44AM (#14978695)
I use 0.0.0.0 which is the defined "invalid" address, so any requests immediately fail.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by bahjoite on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:32AM (#14978950)
I tried:-

echo "0.0.0.0 functionalclam.com" >> /etc/hosts

but a subsequent http request for http://functionalclam.com resulted in a page served by the web service listening on localhost.

edit: append to, don't clobber /etc/hosts

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by baudehlo on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:51AM (#14979086)
Try 127.0.0.254 then.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by pwdisswordfish on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:47AM (#14980848)
Or 0.0.0.1, and spare yourself the spurious loopback traffic.
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:15PM (#14985585)
Is 0.0.0.0/8 unused or something?
Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by userbinator on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:41PM (#14985729)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735#page-6

It's known as "This" Network.

Re:EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown ... by tscs37 on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:28AM (#14987102)
I've found 192.0.2.0 rather useful. It's designated as a test IP range and shouldn't route anywhere useful in normal local networks.