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Originally Posted by mechanicvirus
DMCA is so weaponized now that pirates and actual webmasters are lumped in the same venn diagram according to talent.
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I suspect a lot of performers don't realize how bad some of these companies are. the co's gain legitimacy going to the shows, they get performers to talk about how great they are, meanwhile they are stealing from both performers and legit webmasters
it's theft from performers in that, while the co's can and do actually remove some real piracy URLs from goog, by using bots to DMCA everything under the sun (even an embed of a live cam room on a cam aggregate aff site) they then turn around and say '
see, look how many URL's we found. might wanna try our next level of DMCA protection package'. which of course costs the performer more money
it's theft from legit webmasters in terms of time cost in countering, and also the damage caused by even temporary deindexing and a ding in the SERPs
fucked up situation all around. weaponized is a very good choice of word