Category: dmca

YouTube sues user who extorted others through fake takedown requests

Post author By Randall
Post date August 20, 2019
Categories In av, bitcoin, bogus, business, christopher brady, copyright, copyright infringement, digital millennium copyright act, dmca, Entertainment, extortion, false, gear, Google, Internet, lawsuit, minecraft, notices, swat, swatting, takedown, Tech, Youtube, youtubers

[ad_1] According to Ars Technica, Brady made the false claims against three well-known Minecraft streamers. He then demanded they make payments of $150 to $300 via PayPal (or $75 to $200 in bitcoin). If they refused, he threatened to make a third copyright claim, which could get their accounts terminated. One of the targeted YouTubers […]

Starz apologizes for pushing Twitter to remove tweets on online piracy

Post author By Randall
Post date April 15, 2019
Categories In copyrightinfringement, dmca, dmca takedown, eff, Entertainment, Internet, services, starz, Tech

[ad_1] Techdirt reported that an article from the piracy news site was shared by several accounts over the weekend, including the Columbia Journalism Review‘s Mathew Ingram, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and copyright professor Annemarie Bridy. Twitter, acting on behalf of Starz, then served the accounts with a DMCA takedown despite no links to actual pirated […]