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Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by NmAmDa on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:39AM (#27288692)
Is there a chance that someone take them to the court for this false claim?
Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by Mindwipe on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @08:56AM (#27289895)
No, you have to demonstrate that it is actually in bad faith rather than just a cock up, and that's not going to happen (especially given it very likely is just a cock up).
Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by zozbot234 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:11AM (#27290030)
They have to state under penalty of perjury that they're authorized to act on behalf of the owner of some relevant right. While that might not necessarily involve the right to the Ubuntu ISO itself (e.g. they might have pattern-matched something else that they're acting on behalf of) they do need some good cover story to avoid perjuring themselves.
Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by FireBeyond on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @11:42AM (#27291981)
In the 23 years DMCA has been active, not one single party has been hit with perjury for a false/"unauthorized" DMCA claim. Not one.
Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by finalis on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:39AM (#27291050)
https://www.opsecsecurity.com/opsec-online/antipiracy-digita...

From their own website:

"Accurate Multi-Level Verification Use swift and accurate multi-level cyber verification techniques to confirm copyright infringement"

It sure doesn't sound to me like a company that would like it on record that they aren't as good as they think they are. Have them publicly admit the cock up.

Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by croutonwagon on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:35PM (#27310428)
And yet....they arent even in DMARC reject mode..

https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=dmarc%3aopsecsec...

But they are getting their own forensics feeds.

This seems to me that they are willifully staying in p=none so they can try and have plausible deniability should these things get public.

Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by phkahler on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:01PM (#27292224)
>> (especially given it very likely is just a cock up

"Here's the hash of the file you're infringing." I mean, where did they get that from? It's a rather specific thing for a very specific file from a very specific source. How can that possibly be a mistake? At best it's a result of some automation that indiscriminately makes these claims, which doesn't fall under "cock up" in my book.

Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by rolph on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:29PM (#27295684)
i vaguely remember a project that was developing a file from hash application, the idea was to use an provided hash, and an arbitrary file to accompany a generated padding file that would be packed in so the whole torrent matched the hash.

at about the same time there was a practice of a running padfile, that you would ammend every time you retorrented so that the hash would change and make it hard to kludge out the distribution network by tracking known hashes.

in summary it think it is very possible to "forge" hash numbers and impersonate or obfusicate the content

hash collision is rare, intentional hash mimicry maybe is not so rare.

Re:Online Antipiracy firm sending copyright notices for down... by xtat on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:10AM (#27302640)
As I understand it bad faith is one of their core values.