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Originally Posted by seriouslee
These dmca services will use some crawling bots to search for content. I'd ask them to take your site off their crawlers if your content is legit and is coming from sponsors.
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Agreed. I would also note that crawling websites without their explicit consent might be an issue on several levels. Legitimate crawlers have a user agent and respect the robots.txt rules.
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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
Auto-submitting 3 million reports in one day is moronic. They can't possibly all be pirates.
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Can they really auto-submit? I didn't see an API (but I didn't look too hard).
Using bots for detection is one thing but automation of submission seems unreasonable.
I just read this:
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There are the automatic bots that crawl for content and get it wrong many time.
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...scammers can fire off these notices at will and rely on a small percentage of pushback being received. Whatever the intent behind this system, it's clear at this point that there are multiple avenues for abuse. That makes it high time that we revisit all of this and see if there is a better way.
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What A Shock: Scammers Are Abusing Takedown System With DMCA Claims