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[ PRIVACY Forum ] How a single DMCA notice took down 1.45 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Mon Oct 15 22:32:11 2012
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:57:00 -0700
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How a single DMCA notice took down 1.45 million education blogs
http://t.co/LR7QnTO0 (ars technica)
"Web hosting firm ServerBeach recently received a Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) violation notice from Pearson, the well-known
educational publishing company. The notice pertained to Edublogs,
which hosts 1.45 million education-related blogs with ServerBeach, and
it focused on a single Edublogs page from 2007 that contained a
questionnaire copyrighted by Pearson. ServerBeach informed Edublogs
about the alleged violation, and Edublogs says it quickly took down
the allegedly infringing content. Instead of calling the matter
settled, though, ServerBeach took Edublogs' servers offline last
Wednesday, temporarily shutting off all 1.45 million blogs, according
to Edublogs."
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How about a $1000 fine for every site taken down or blocked inappropriately
by a DMCA order? 1.45M * $1000 = ...
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