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If you want to give context, a link to the story would be nice: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/fake-dmca-takedown-notice-targeted-ubuntu-downloaders-y

by judge2020 5y ago

If you want to give context, a link to the story would be nice: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/fake-dmca-takedown-notice-targeted-ubuntu-downloaders-yesterday/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/fake-dmca-takedown-n... Importantly, OpSec (the company doing this torrent-dmca-for-hire stuff) says the DMCA itself was spoofed > OpSec Security’s DCMA notice sending program was spoofed on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, by unknown parties across multiple streaming platforms.

Jiocus 5y ago
Of course it was a false flag issue, it never made sense from the beginning.
- paranoidrobot 5y ago
  In a world where white noise[1], birdsong[2] and someone playing Beethoven on the piano[3] get copyright strikes/takedown notices - I don't think someone getting a copyright notice for downloading Ubuntu is that far fetched. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637124 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577
  - lanterk 5y ago
    There's actually an album called Ubuntu. Quite possible some duncehead set up a bot to download all torrents with Ubuntu in the name and scrape the IPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28album%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28album%29
DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
...who names their company "OpSec"? Are they actively wanting to be made fun-of at the next defcon?
- zrobotics 5y ago
  I mean, they're willing to work for ISPs doing torrent detection, which has been a scummy business from the start. Somehow, I would imagine they would be even less respected than the feds at defcon, since the feds actually do technically challenging things occasionally.
- kalleboo 5y ago
  Is anything worse than "Web Sheriff"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Sheriff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Sheriff https://web.archive.org/web/20090122235038/https://thepiratebay.org/legal https://web.archive.org/web/20090122235038/https://thepirate...
  - sillysaurusx 5y ago
    The emails between pirate bay and web sheriff are pretty funny. https://web.archive.org/web/20090105141217/http://static.thepiratebay.org/whitestripes_response.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20090105141217/http://static.the... > We shall look forward to hearing from you. We look forward to receiving more of your so exquisitely designed HTML e-mails with the shiny wanna-be-police-star. https://web.archive.org/web/20081221100050/http://static.thepiratebay.org/whitestripes_resp2.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20081221100050/http://static.the... > Dear Frederik, > > Hello. Hi! Please, learn to quote properly in your e-mail messages. You can learn from how I do - I promise you that proper quoting is not patented.
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Jiocus 5y ago

Of course it was a false flag issue, it never made sense from the beginning.

paranoidrobot 5y ago
In a world where white noise[1], birdsong[2] and someone playing Beethoven on the piano[3] get copyright strikes/takedown notices - I don't think someone getting a copyright notice for downloading Ubuntu is that far fetched. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637124 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577
- lanterk 5y ago
  There's actually an album called Ubuntu. Quite possible some duncehead set up a bot to download all torrents with Ubuntu in the name and scrape the IPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28album%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28album%29

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago

...who names their company "OpSec"? Are they actively wanting to be made fun-of at the next defcon?

zrobotics 5y ago
I mean, they're willing to work for ISPs doing torrent detection, which has been a scummy business from the start. Somehow, I would imagine they would be even less respected than the feds at defcon, since the feds actually do technically challenging things occasionally.
kalleboo 5y ago
Is anything worse than "Web Sheriff"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Sheriff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Sheriff https://web.archive.org/web/20090122235038/https://thepiratebay.org/legal https://web.archive.org/web/20090122235038/https://thepirate...
- sillysaurusx 5y ago
  The emails between pirate bay and web sheriff are pretty funny. https://web.archive.org/web/20090105141217/http://static.thepiratebay.org/whitestripes_response.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20090105141217/http://static.the... > We shall look forward to hearing from you. We look forward to receiving more of your so exquisitely designed HTML e-mails with the shiny wanna-be-police-star. https://web.archive.org/web/20081221100050/http://static.thepiratebay.org/whitestripes_resp2.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20081221100050/http://static.the... > Dear Frederik, > > Hello. Hi! Please, learn to quote properly in your e-mail messages. You can learn from how I do - I promise you that proper quoting is not patented.
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