[governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

There are of course amusing stories about an IP address that's assigned to, say, a scanner being claimed as a downloader of the hobbit movie or whatever.  And not so amusing stories about ISPs that receive dmca demands asking them to reveal a user's identity, in bulk lots of a few thousand a time, with the barest accompanying detail.  And courts cracking down on vendors of these bulk dmca takedown notice technology.

Yes there is a vast majority of people who download and upload random copyrighted contents on the "everybody does it" and "the chances of my being caught are slim" principles .. Only to find out just how heavily automated the entire process is.

ISPs who, believe it or not, do have a privacy policy that they balance their terms of use policy against, and are just as averse to litigation and bad press from a botched dmca takedown as they are to facing the consequences of disregarding a valid takedown request, tend to be caught in a cleft stick, and best practices for handling such requests is a fairly evolving area.

--srs (iPad)

On 16-Dec-2012, at 20:49, Roland Perry <roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <72C5F103-16E8-4BE0-B69F-4B7AD18C7B09 at hserus.net>, at 07:36:31 on Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> writes
>> As it happens, my opinion is thst st least the dmca makes very little sense and its enforcement is fraught with problems
> 
> The DMCA was a very interesting experiment, in that the vast majority of content taken down as a result of complaints was never asked to be reinstated by the original culprit.
> 
> What that tells me is (1) That they knew they should never have posted the infringing content in the first place and (2) The DMCA has not been used to censor very much legitimate content - because it's so easy to get it put back.
> -- 
> Roland Perry

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