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Subsequently, magnolia1234 migrated Bypass Paywalls Clean to GitHub, where it was targeted by another DMCA takedown notice submitted by the News Media Alliance, resulting in GitHub restricting downloads of the software and its 3,879 forks in August 2024. [2] [5] The extension supports Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. [3]
Firewatch was review bombed on Steam in September 2017 after its developer Campo Santo responded to an incident where the YouTuber PewDiePie uttered a racial slur during an unrelated livestream by issuing a false DMCA takedown against PewDiePie's videos of their game. Campo Santo justified this by stating that they did not want someone with ...
In 2001 the Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a collaborative clearinghouse for notice and takedown requests, known as Chilling Effects. [23] Researchers have been using the clearinghouse to study the use of cease-and-desist demands, primarily looking at DMCA 512 takedown notices, but also non-DMCA copyright issues, and trademark claims.
This allows for copyright holders to send out take-down notices without incurring much liability; to get the content back up, the recipients need to expend considerably more resources. Section 512(f) makes the sender of an invalid claim liable for the damages resulting from the content's improper removal, including legal fees, but that remedy ...
Non-commercial and open-source peer-to-peer services were able to survive from these case laws, leading entertainment groups to deploy software on the services to track downloads, [79] and subsequently attempted to serve takedown notices and sue users on the services for copyright violations under the DMCA since around 2003. [80]
CBS News issued a DMCA takedown notice and had the video removed from YouTube. [34] 2009: In September 2009, "Photoshop Disasters"—a blog covering egregious photo editing missteps—published a photo of a Polo Ralph Lauren ad in which the model's body was grotesquely smaller than her head.
Universal Music Corp. affirmed a holding that copyright owners must consider fair use in good faith before issuing a takedown notice for content posted on the internet. [49] [50] Boing Boing considers such uses of the DMCA to be "bogus complaints" a kind of copyfraud. [51]