@harmonycorrupted yikes.
- Cuz that letter one could've been cleary solved by her #DMCA|ing tze content and pointing at the absence of an #18USC2257 record as evidence of nonconsensual content.
But then again #FOSTA / #SESTA is some christofacist #SWERF shite…
THE BLOODY #PIRATE MANIFESTO
"No #ads. No #VIP. #No god. Just seed.
Welcome to the Age of Monetized #Piracy.
Where “#free” comes with cookies,
Where “#anonymous” means “newsletter,”
Where every #pirate flag has a price tag sewn in.
You wanted to sail the high seas
They sold you a lifeboat subscription with #ads.
RULE #1:
If you make money off #piracy you are the #Navy.
Ad-plastered “free streaming” sites
→ You click "Play", they load 9 #JavaScript #miners and your ex’s #Facebook ad.
→ Solution: #Kill their #revenue. #uBlock, #TamperMonkey, Empty.gif carpet #bombing.
VIP #Pirate #Accounts
→ They sell stolen #Netflix access like it’s a f***ing bottle service.
→ Solution: #Leak it. #Fork it. #Burn it.
#Darknet Pirate Resellers
→ "Premium Ebook Packs - Only $29 #BTC"
→ Solution: #Doxx. #Spoof. #Blacklist.
(They sell what should be holy. Purify with fire.)
#FAKE #LIBRARIES ARE NOT #LIBERATION.
"#PDF download" — 9 popups later, your #RAM is crying.
"Buy 3 #EPUBs, get 1 free" — you just colonized knowledge.
"#DMCA takedown coming 
" cry #harder, #bitch.
#Archive it. #Mirror it. #Share it. Don't sell it.
They #seed.
They #encrypt.
They #disappear.
Every time you monetize piracy, an #FTP server #dies in a basement.
“If your #piracy has a #profit model,
then our #piracy will include you.”
#Ads? Nuked.
#Subscriptions? Hijacked.
#Privacy policies? Weaponized.
You are not a user. You are a bullet.
“You wanted #torrent #freedom.
They gave you streaming #debt.”
Now take it back. With #fire.
—
Just finished the first story (Unauthorized Bread) in @pluralistic's Radicalized collection and it so perfectly describes resilience in a plausible near-future dystopia at the nexus of #enshittification, #immigration, and #poverty in the US. Also, a surprising amount of education on #jailbreaking and the #dmca.
DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub
https://torrentfreak.com/drm-free-onlyfans-downloads-see-widevine-project-nuked-from-github-250428/
#Anti-Piracy #cdrmproject #onlyfans #DMCA #DRM
Comcast attempts to intimidate me into taking down a blog post
Comcast sent me two intimidating letters and a bogus DMCA takedown notice in a misguided effort to get me to take down content they didn't like because it has Comcast executive email addresses in it.
#Comcast #DMCA #TakedownReporting
https://blog.kamens.us/2025/03/16/comcast-attempts-to-intimidate-me-into-taking-down-a-blog-post/
"While books that come on audio CDs don't have DRM embedded in them, files downloaded from Audible or other for-pay sources often do. Audiobookshelf won't play books with DRM, which means you need a method of stripping that DRM out.
Unfortunately, here's where we run into a problem: removing DRM from your audiobooks is not universally legal. "In the US, the law against 'circumventing' effective DRM has no personal-use exemption. In Europe, it varies by country," explained the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Competition and IP Litigation Director Mitch Stoltz when Ars reached out for advice. "That's as silly as it sounds—stripping DRM from one’s own copy of an audiobook in order to listen to it privately through different software doesn’t threaten the author or publisher, except that it makes it harder for them to charge you twice for the same audiobook. It’s another example of how anti-circumvention laws interfere with consumers’ rights of ownership over the things they buy."
And that means you're kind of on your own for this step. Should you live in a jurisdiction where DRM removal from audiobooks for personal use is legal—which includes some but not all European countries—then sites like this one can assist in the process; for the rest of us, the only advice I can give is to simply proceed in a legal manner and use DRM-free audiobooks to start with."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/
#Comcast didn't get a court order to support the #DMCA request they sent Linode regarding my blog post, because it was entirely bogus and they knew it. They were just hoping I either didn't know my rights or wouldn't take the time to file a counter-notice.
Well, I did, and the required waiting period has elapsed, so I've republished the post they tried to bully me into taking down.
Here it is, in case you want to remind them about the #StreisandEffect:
https://blog.kamens.us/2009/07/02/comcast-still-sending-service-announcements-to-wrong-address/
Cory Doctorow sees big business opportunities if countries change their laws in response to the kooky U.S. tariff climate.
Specifically, like Sec. 1201 of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( #dmca ), many countries passed "contempt of business model" laws that criminalize modding & tinkering to protect #Amazon & #Apple et al.
But now that #BigTech "disruptors" are disrupting international trade rules, what happens if countries change their #dmca style laws?
Cory Doctorow shows our #neoliberal "free market" is neither free nor market as
Sec.1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act criminalizes distribution of devices for "circumvention" of access controls on HP printers.
(& that HP did reverse one egregious policy, possibly due to a sort of #mangione effect?)
HP pushed to minor act of disenshittification
@pluralistic #dmca #legaltech #law #ethics #dmca
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/#racehorse-semen
Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.
It's worth reading:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/
It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.
I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.
Give it a read.
Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.
The support folks at Linode / Akamai kindly gave me a brief tutorial on how to handle a bogus #DMCA takedown notice. They aren't allowed to decide themselves that the notice is bogus. I have to unpublish the blog posting and then file a counter-notice with Linode (which I've now done), which they then send to the complainant. Then I can republish the blog posting in 2 weeks if I haven't been served with a lawsuit by then.
#Comcast sucks ass for wasting my time like this.
#Copyright
DMCA Notices Took Down 31,151 GitHub Projects Last Year
https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-notices-took-down-31151-github-projects-last-year-250222/
For the record:
* They emailed me the same request again on January 1, 2025. I once again told them to pound sand.
* This morning they escalated by filing a #DMCA takedown request with #Linode, my hosting provider. Email addresses can't be copyrighted, so the request is totally bogus. Linode forwarded it to me and demanded that I take action rather than reading it carefully enough to determine that it's bogus. I just wrote back to them and told them it is. We'll see what happens.
#Comcast
Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain
One of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. Here’s the summary of what happened:
When […]
#counternotice #dmca #google #infringement #nonProfit #publicDomain #registration #shakespeare #takedown #usCopyrightOffice #youtube
Copyright: Vimeo wins again against record label
Since 2009, record labels have been trying to hold Vimeo liable for videos with unlicensed music. The rights holders have failed again.
Copyright: Vimeo gewinnt erneut gegen Plattenlabel
Seit 2009 versuchen Plattenlabel, Vimeo für Videos mit unlizenzierter Musik haftbar zu machen. Die Rechteinhaber sind erneut gescheitert.
"A brave YouTuber has managed to defeat a fake Nintendo lawyer improperly targeting his channel with copyright takedowns that could have seen his entire channel removed if YouTube issued one more strike.
Sharing his story with The Verge, Dominik "Domtendo" Neumayer—a German YouTuber who has broadcasted play-throughs of popular games for 17 years—said that it all started when YouTube removed some videos from his channel that were centered on The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Those removals came after a pair of complaints were filed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and generated two strikes. Everyone on YouTube knows that three strikes mean you're out and off the platform permanently.
Suddenly at risk of losing the entire channel he had built on YouTube, Neumayer was stunned, The Verge noted, partly because most game companies consider "Let's Play" videos like his to be free marketing, not a threat to their business. And while Nintendo has been known to target YouTubers with DMCA takedowns, it generally historically took no issues with accounts like his."
UPDATE: It is a #scam Thank you for the replies and information! (See comments) 
Can anyone from the USA confirm this? Is this a new scam from there?
The image they're claiming is in the #PublicDomain for almost 10 years already, but I'm not familiar with USA-based (edit: or rather those with a USA address) scams.
#DMCA trolls stopped trying to reach websites and now attacking infrastructure instead.
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-blocks-pirate-site-urls-for-legal-reasons-241209/
