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A Feud in Wolf-Kink Erotica Raises a Deep Legal Question
- masonic 6y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Wolf-kink%20erotica&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- DanBC 6y agoThe DMCA is supposed to have protections against malicious use, but it's clear that those protections do not work. This is remarkable: > “We’ve seen lots of examples of people sending D.M.C.A. notices when it’s pretty obvious that they didn’t think there was copyright infringement,” said Mitch Stoltz, a senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group. “There’s not much accountability.” > On May 21, the U.S. Copyright Office released a report detailing how the 22-year-old D.M.C.A. has failed to keep pace with the anarchic digital ecosystem, as online platforms have been overwhelmed by a crushing volume of takedown notices. Between 1998 and 2010, Google received fewer than three million such notices; in 2017, the company got more than 880 million — an increase of more than 29,000 percent, according to the report. Many requests are legitimate, but the report notes that other motives include “anti-competitive purposes, to harass a platform or consumer, or to try and chill speech that the rightsholder does not like.” This is an algorithmic arms-race between the bots that find "infringing" content and send takedown messages, and the bots that respond to those takedown messages.