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No. The problem is that Facebook has automatically enabled 2 factor protection(due to large friends count) without corresponding 2 factor methods in place!!. To reset password, 2 factor authentication is needed, but there is no method and it cannot be setup since it requires password!!

And there is no way to contact Facebook.

Thanks. My issue is that there is no way to contact Facebook support. It is crazy that they don't have even a way to report big issues like this. The account in question is supposed to be too important for them to automatically enable "protect".

In theory, self hosting works. I have my content self hosted. In this case, they sent a DMCA request to Google and they delisted my webpage from Google. 99% of my traffic simply dropped.

In addition, all Google properties picked up the DMCA action on Google index and started sending me warning and suspension of ads etc.

I have sent a detailed counter notice. But even after 12 days, I am yet to hear back from Google.

So self-hosting may work for Github, but not if you want presence in Google index.

Many people doesn't seem to understand what pain individuals undergo when their content is taken offline by Google or Github due to a fake DMCA notice.

They would have built something over years and one morning entire thing is taken offline due to a fake DMCA notice. Then they have to issue a counter notice with all its legal implications and it also exposes all your private information including full address, name and phone number(in a wrong country, you become target of thieves as well). Then it takes almost a month before content is restored.

How can an individual fight this? How can you make companies misusing DMCA pay for it?

Hey Vivek,

I have received fake DMCA requests from WorthIT Solutions, Pakistan that you guys seems to have hired. It is sent for a simple blog entry discussing about programming algorithm!

I recommend training them or replacing them.

HackeRank sends pretty nasty DMCA requests.

I recently received one from a Pakistani company hired by HackerRank. The material in question was a simple blog entry on a well known programming problem and its solution. The problem is DMCA doesn't provide any way to fight these fake requests and Google simply removes the content until you send a counter notification and wait for over 2 weeks.

DMCA should have a provision that if a company is misusing DMCA at large-scale, their requests should go through additional validation.

One interesting aspect of modern technology is that there are huge inefficiencies everywhere. It is also an opportunity since anyone can jump in and create/improve something a lot better.

This video is an interesting demonstration of 2 things - human ingenuity and the scope of improvement even when it is not obvious!

It is a free and open source NoSQL database that can horizontally scale if needed without any additional plumbing. A lot of projects use it due to its simplicity in developer workflow.

I think MongoDB 3.6 is when it became a "decent" DB.

Azure CosmosDB provides protocol level for MongoDB 3.6. This offers developers a neat way of using the power of distributed CosmosDB without sacrificing cloud portability.

A detailed and interesting history of MongoDB database.