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Are we reading the same policy? I'm looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html and I see a fax number of "Fax: 650
by mherdeg 14y ago
Are we reading the same policy? I'm looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html and I see a fax number of "Fax: 650.360.3189" and "please send a written notice (by fax or regular mail) to the Designated Agent at the address below".
The January 2013 copy of the policy on archive.org lists the same contact information.
- brudgers 14y agoI missed it. Faxing still creates friction and significantly so for any attempt at bulk requests.
- elithrar 14y ago> I missed it. Faxing still creates friction and significantly so for any attempt at bulk requests. Does it? It's pretty easy to spool up a lot of faxes if you have an account with an email-to-fax service.
- Oxxide 14y agoI'm sure that's when the machine would become unplugged and the fax option stricken from the record.
- brudgers 14y agoThe faxes still come through serially with the receiving machine able to set the maximum rate of transmission. With one phone line and four minutes per fax that's a maximum of 360 requests per day. Send some long outgoing faxes and availability for receiving notices goes down. In any event, spooling up a lot of faxes would tie up YC's fax machine, not YC's staff.
- sbochins 14y agoCouldn't you just use some online faxing service? That would prevent the 360 request/day limit you mentioned. I don't think any place sending mass DMCA take downs would be sending faxes themselves.