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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Agreed, far too many are sent out by automatic programs and this needs to stopped. By removing obvious piracy site a lot of the work against pirates will disappear. Allowing more time for more accurate DMCA's. We all know Hotfile is a site running off of piracy and profiting from piracy. We can easily identify the pirated content. Once that's done and their funding is removed. They are no more. So what's left to deal with?
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actually hotfiles would argue that they simply provide network aware backup services. Like the System management services in corporations, they backup data that has no confidentially requirement (OS and Application state for sms)
the service and revenue doesn't care if the content is pirated, open source, or fully authorized the ad on the side, the upgrade to premium speeds works just as well.
if a judge finally agrees with them then all the people sending notices now should lose their copyright completely
that the point copyright holders agreeing that hotfiles is running off piracy is not enough
the supreme court is the one that matters.
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Yes people making bogus claims need to be hit hard. Even to the extreme of them losing copyright if they don't pay the fine. Same could apply to piracy sites. Which is te problem today, no one takes any real notice of the penalties of piracy.
The clause in the DMCA that allows publishers to get away with not checking, needs removing. It was meant for hosting services, not publishers who do hosting.
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i hate to say it your the closest to getting it here, you still make statements like we all agree hotfiles is running off piracy