After I refused a bribe to remove a @web3isgreat
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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"?
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@henryk my suspicion is that it’s not worth anyone’s time to track down whoever’s behind this email address (likely outside of the US)
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Wholly crap, do not mess with Molly. She got this lawyer removed from the CA bar association, nuked his address from earth orbit, and deleted all public records he or that office ever existed.
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@molly0xfff I learned about this scam from Cory Doctorow--as he described it, they copy your content but with an earlier (false) date, demand you take yours down, then edit or delete their version if you do.
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@molly0xfff so they are pathetic and cheapskates?
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@RupertReynolds precisely
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@molly0xfff It's an obvious ploy, now I know about it, but it never occurred to me before.
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Can you give me permission to rehost this content?
I would love a bribe of $100 to take it down. Maybe we can all get a bribe of $100 to take it down. Websites are cheap, so we can make a lot of them.
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@INIT6 it’s all already CC licensed haha
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@molly0xfff
Presumably there is still someone upstream of you though (e.g. an ISP or VPS host)? What happens if they get the fraudulent legal threats instead?
