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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by zibzab on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:01AM (#26901318)
Note also that the original lawsuit was for Ian tweeting about their public YouTube videos.

How can this garbage lawauit be allowed to go on and cost a man $100.000 in lawyer fees??

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by worik on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:14AM (#26901402)
Because the rules are made by lawyers
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by ch4s3 on Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:20PM (#26905286)
Maybe... But in the US we have anti-SLAPP laws written by lawyers in a lot of states. Any California court would toss this shit out in a second.
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by elliekelly on Thursday April 22, 2021 @11:46AM (#26904078)
By lobbyists*
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by koonsolo on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:26AM (#26901488)
and because it's in US.
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by ayewo on Thursday April 22, 2021 @07:32AM (#26901533)
Small correction: he’s being sued (by a US company) in Canada, under a new Canadian law.
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by koonsolo on Thursday April 22, 2021 @09:56AM (#26902758)
Aha, that might change it indeed. Do they have the "loser pays the costs" policy or not?
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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by ayewo on Thursday April 22, 2021 @10:40AM (#26903271)
Kind of.

According to the EFF [1], he might be able to recover his legal costs: “ But Proctorio’s bad behavior has inspired a broad community of people to fight for better student privacy rights, and hundreds of people donated to Linkletter’s defense fund, which raised more than $50,000. And the PPPA gives him a greater chance of getting his fees back.”

1: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/student-surveillance-v...

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Re:EFF sues Proctorio on behalf of student falsely DMCA'd by input_sh on Thursday April 22, 2021 @12:48PM (#26904906)
SLAPP suits are absolutely a thing in the EU as well.
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