Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets

Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by kevingadd on Thursday November 05, 2020 @07:43PM (#25003720)

They have expensive lawyers, you don't

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by dotancohen on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:30PM (#25004311)

Microsoft has expensive lawyers on retainer, and would not challenge the takedown notice against youtube-dl.

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by x0 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:44PM (#25004679)

Would Microsoft care about youtube-dl? Aside from their recent gesturing towards open source, I can't see a scenario in which they'd even say anything. Considering how often youtube-dl has to be updated and re-downloaded, they might even be happy to get that load off GitHub.

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by vkou on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:37PM (#25004345)

Those lawyers protect Microsoft from liabilities.

Their users are, in this case, a liability.

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by Teever on Thursday November 05, 2020 @08:15PM (#25003900)

If they go after you for the same thing they themselves did aren't they just handing you the means to go after them?

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by kevingadd on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:07PM (#25012291)

They're not paying for your lawyers. It's that simple. Unless you have a deep war chest any competent lawyer would tell you not to pursue it.

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