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A Critic Uses the DMCA to Avoid Criticism
- CM30 8y agoA critic who can't accept criticism? That seems to be a more and more common occurrence nowadays, both with media critics and traditional journalism. Seems a lot of people in those fields can dish out far more than they can take themselves. But abusing the DMCA for crap like this is definitely going way too far, even by those standards.
- lopmotr 8y agoReminds me of this game company (Campo Santo) using DMCA against PewDiePie [1] because they were offended at something he said while playing an unrelated game. It's another weapon in online fights. [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xxwyg/pewdiepie-is-inexcusable-but-dmca-takedowns-are-not-the-way-to-fight-him https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xxwyg/pewdiepie-...
- binarycrusader 8y agoThat is an unfair characterization. They did what they did to protect their brand from a Streamer who is making money from other people’s content via monetization and to which they wanted no association with. Many corporations wouldn’t allow monetization of their content by someone else so they were quite generous to generally allow it. But that comes at their sole discretion, as is their right. If somone reads the article you linked, I think this is pretty clear.
- pitaj 8y agoBut is their use of the DMCA valid? PewDiePie's usage of their content was most likely covered by fair use.
- JdeBP 8y agoThe full EFF list of these is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17254412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17254412 .
- crunchlibrarian 8y agoHow many more decades of abuse do we have to endure before we realize the DMCA sucks?