Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice

Re:Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with... by jspthrowaway on Monday October 15, 2012 @10:07PM (#4658148)

Couldn't agree more with most of your points. Almost everybody defaults to assuming their broken Wordpress install is the provider's fault. I'm not sure that I agree with any company being beyond mistakes.

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Re:Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with... by thaumaturgy on Monday October 15, 2012 @10:31PM (#4658212)

Try not thinking of it as being "beyond mistakes"; try to think of it as "not having the luxury of being treated like a startup".

What would your visceral response be to a brand new bank that makes the news because it got robbed due to faulty locks, and oh-by-the-way they haven't gotten around to being insured yet? Is it fair that a bank is held to different standards than Mom & Pop's Corner Shoppe?

For most people -- maybe just about everybody -- a hosting company is the online equivalent of a bank. And that's totally fair.

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Re:Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with... by DanBC on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @12:33AM (#4658464)

Some startups get roasted here. I guess it depends what kind of mistakes they make.

Maybe it's a big vs small thing too?

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