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Comment Biased hyperboly, or am I missing something? (Score 1) 76

So if I'm reading this correctly, Uber offered work to GoCatch drivers, drivers they identified using information published by GoCatch themselves. The fact that GoCatch didn't intend to be used that way doesn't make the tool "spyware" or otherwise nefarious. And the fact that it worked implied that Uber offered the drivers a good deal.

Comment Misplacing the blame (Score 1) 90

Thanks to Google's indifference, the pirates can continue to sell ebooks no matter how many times copyright holders might complain. If Google takes a pirated ebook down in response to a DMCA notice, the pirates simply upload another copy of the same title.

If you pirates to stop distributing your works, you need to go after the pirates. Google is not your mommy. It won't kiss you and make everything all right.

DMCA requires platforms to take down very specifically identified infringements. The same work uploaded by another user is not necessarily an infringement, so another notification is required on behalf of the rights owner. Not policing for infringement is not a sign of indifference on the behalf of the platform. Policing is not required of the platform because it is impossible for it to do so.

Comment Re:Is that fraud? (Score 1) 250

Dropbox, as the service provider, does NOT have the right to say what is or is not copyrighted content

Of course they can. It's not libel, slander or otherwise illegal speech.

If you meant they don't have the right to take down content, that's not right either. The DMCA safe harbours make clear that a site isn't responsible for the actions of 3rd parties, but that doesn't prevent sites from policing their users if they want to, and it doesn't prevent sites from taking down any content they want to from their own sites.

What they can't do is send DMCA takedown requests for content to which they down own the rights. If they did this here, they are in the wrong. Unfortunately, very few face the consequences of sending false DMCA takedown requests.

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