[url=]https://torrentfreak.com/harry-potter-publisher-goes-on-a-bizarre-anti-piracy-rampage-160414/[/url]

So wikipedia is infringing on copyrights? Wow, what's next? School library? Public library? Open conversations? GOG?

Why the hell does your link refer to this thread when I click it? lol


" the best way to get rid of a swarm of mosquitoes is to fire a machine gun at it."

I'm laughing.

This is what happens when bots do your legal work, or idiots like "zeroxxx" above.

the URL wasn't linked correctly, the url was the title with no address to link to

here's a link for ya.
Harry Potter Publisher Goes on a Bizarre Anti-Piracy Rampage

I already read the link even before I wrote the first post.

Just look at the remark I posted, it was taken from the article's comment box. Calling me idiot for not reading just proves you're an idiot yourself sachys.

Yeah, it's the same bot-generated nonsense that's also coincidentally put games media on YouTube in serious jeopardy. They're just so obsessed with zOMG stopping piracy that they don't care how insane they look to the rest of us. If their content ID bot red-flags it, it must be piracy, right?

I'm half expecting these publishers to start issuing C&D notices against schools and public libraries any day now. Why not just go all the way, and lobby for the substitution of public libraries and schools with publisher-owned for-profit institutions that let you rent a DRM-infested eBook for a yearly subscription fee?

Finally the first form of perfect DRM starts emerging: Make your product invisible to everyone. If nobody uses it, talks about it or knows about it it cannot be breached! :)

Poor Wikipedia. It seems anti-piracy groups and other pro-DRMs became very paranoid.

Phew, I was afraid anything I develop might be pirated some day. Now I'm at least sure it won't, thanks to nothing ever being complete enough for any kind of release.

EDIT: Wait, no, that's actually not quite true. I did once write (9 years ago?), and release (2 years ago?, just to test how GitHub worked), a script for WoW to start and stop combat and/or chat log. PIRACY PANIC!!!

There are many problems with the DMCA, and the one being demonstrated here is the unreasonably high standards for being found to have made a claim "in bad faith". Writing a computer script that you know is capable of making errors then not checking the output apparently does not constitute bad faith, so there is little to no recourse against these negligent companies that issue groundless takedown notices. And because there's no recourse, they have no incentive to put any efforts towards improving the problem and it's only gotten worse. For smaller creators who depend on third party hosting to reach their audience, these takedowns are literally more harmful than the piracy they purport to stop.

Gotta agree on that one,nice to see someone else put the fat slug in place:)

Can someone lighten me a little : I'm not sure to understand perfectly what is this "take down" concept ? Google has to suppress results of researches in his google search ? To ask to sites to stop/suppress the content ? I'm asking because it seems google receive a lot of the complaints. For me take down demand is "suppress the content of this page", but how can be google directly implied ?

There's one thing I absolutely don't understand : why now ? I mean... There are fanarts, fanfics, extracts everywhere on the web. The last book was out almost 10 years ago, the last movie 5 years ago.
Are they suddenly increasing hunting piracy concerning Harry Potter that much ? Oo Why ?

I've burst laughing.

Seriously, these anti-pirate guys lost any sorts of hope, or sympathy. In their fighting of piracy, they're only making piracy worse. But then again, Wikipedia's piracy? What next?

I tried to get my head around this but I just can't... Can Wikipedia not simply provide information on the item in question? How is this piracy??
Shit, forget it. I can't even.

So Harry Potter is not relevant anymore... Let's blame Wikipedia pirates!