After I refused a bribe to remove a @web3isgreat
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@molly0xfff @web3isgreat Was reporting on a sim-swapper who got recorded and put on a podcast. A day later, their podcast got taken down through a fake copyright demand that said the podcast had copyrighted music in the background, when it clearly didn't. They know a lot of platforms will just cave and remove the disputed content, and only ask after the fact if the person who posted it has any objections.
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@briankrebs yep, the DMCA takedown process is unfortunately abused so easily.
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@molly0xfff Time to file a DMCA takedown request against them?
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Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸replied to Molly White last edited by
@molly0xfff @web3isgreat it's also fun to check the "about" on that page... and the contact, and the "follow us" section, and everything like that. A really serious news resource. They even have a "legal" email address!
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Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸replied to Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸 last edited by
@molly0xfff @web3isgreat by the expressive number of posts in August, from many different websites, I'm pretty sure this individual has sent similar emails to dozens of other authors.
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Molly Whitereplied to Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸 last edited by
@fmors yep, have heard from two other crypto news outlets that they've received similar requests
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@molly0xfff This "Michael Woods" needs to enjoy the consequences of "under penalty of perjury".
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Conductorreplied to Molly White last edited by [email protected]
Mhmm.
The author of such sparkling legal prose as "I would like to draw your attention towards I have one copyrighted content" and "This page content has been copied from our website !!" definitely also wrote the article in question.
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update: the “lawyer” is now offering me $100 less than the previous guy to delete the post
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Sammy (snuggly plushie arc) :nonbinaryFlag:replied to Molly White last edited by
@molly0xfff y'know I'm starting to think he isn't a lawyer...
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@molly0xfff What exactly is their game there? Do they make so much of advertising that the 100 USD for being the only ones hosting your content is realistic? Or do they never plan to actually pay you?
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@HeptaSean they’re just trying to get the post taken down. i assume most people doing this kind of DMCA fraud delete the posts later on so they’re not adding to the pile of content this guy doesn’t want online, but this seems like a pretty budget bin operation lol
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@molly0xfff Ah, so, they get paid by the subject of the article who wants it completely gone? That makes half sense.
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@HeptaSean yep
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@molly0xfff Do you think if we all put up mirrors of the article he'd offer the same to each of us?
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@hybridhavoc worth a shot
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@molly0xfff @web3isgreat My first thought - reply and cite a classic British legal case that would fit just fine ... "Arkell v Pressdram (1971)"
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@hal8999 definitely very similar if not the same
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@molly0xfff How does that even work? Isn't the guy worried that some day he might hit a lawyer who will take him up on his offer of "penalty of perjury"?
