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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by KenoFischer on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:38PM (#23075819)
GitHub can decide a takedown notice is facially invalid. Of course if it's later found that they're wrong by a court of competent jurisdiction, they'd be in trouble, so they're likely to be extremely conservative in making this determination.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by URSpider94 on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:49PM (#23075887)
I'm curious to know whether platforms ever even bother to evaluate takedowns, beyond the most basic fact-checking (e.g. the item to be taken down is spelled properly). It seems like one of those cases where the risk of getting it wrong outweighs the benefit of trying to discriminate between good and bad requests.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by colejohnson66 on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:55PM (#23075937)
Doesn’t Google deny DMCA requests sometimes?
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by duskwuff on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:11AM (#23076401)
Sometimes. Not as often as they should, but they will at least reject keyword-based delisting requests for obviously innocent web properties like Wikipedia or IMDB (typically because they have an page about the movie that some overzealous "copyright defense" outfit is trying to protect).
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by greglindahl on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:06PM (#23076023)
"Perfect 10" is famous for filing obviously invalid DMCA takedowns and then suing. They've even won, e.g. Perfect 10 vs Yandex.
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