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Do those German firms hold a monopoly on copyright claims or something? Years ago I noticed all the Recent records on Chilling Effects (now Lumen) were origina
by CreepGin 6y ago
Do those German firms hold a monopoly on copyright claims or something?
Years ago I noticed all the Recent records on Chilling Effects (now Lumen) were originated from German. I dug a little deeper and found out one of the firms were generating thousands of records per day and some of the claims were simply mistakes because they used simple string matching algorithms to automatically report massive amount of google search results.
After some email exchanges, their CEO admitted to me that they only generate 5% wrongful claims and somehow he's proud of it...
- onli 6y agoIt's Germany. Institutionally zero tech knowledge, but a very pro copyright legislature and political caste (that, at a high level, is also very corrupt. Think Wirecard and add Kohls schwarze Kassen). Even with its own evidently corrupt court that always sides with copyright holders, regardless how absurd the claim and even if the law does not agree with the judges at all. Of course that's a country where law firms like that can prosper.