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The authors of the study received more than 400 spurious takedown notices. Whether or not copyright owners can send warnings based on inconclusive evidence, the notification letters they actually send imply that there is strong evidence of infringement.
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"network. Our work is based on measurements of tens of thousands of BitTorrent objects. A unique feature of our approach is that we intentionally try to receive DMCA takedown notices, and we use these notices to drive our analysis." Freedom to Tinker: Study Shows DMCA Takedowns Based on Inconclusive Evidence: "The existence of erroneous takedowns is not news ? anybody who has seen the current system operating knows that some notices are just wrong, for example referring to unused IP addresses. Somewhat more interesting is the result that it is pretty"
"network. Our work is based on measurements of tens of thousands of BitTorrent objects. A unique feature of our approach is that we intentionally try to receive DMCA takedown notices, and we use these notices to drive our analysis." Freedom to Tinker: Study Shows DMCA Takedowns Based on Inconclusive Evidence: "The existence of erroneous takedowns is not news ? anybody who has seen the current system operating knows that some notices are just wrong, for example referring to unused IP addresses. Somewhat more interesting is the result that it is pretty"
" A University of Washington study of how one can get invalid DMCA takedown notices has attracted quite a bit of attention. Ed Felten, for example, has written approvingly of it. But after looking at the main page, the FAQ, and the technical report (PDF), I find that the authors didn't do a very good job of it, at least on the reporting end. "
" Study Shows DMCA Takedowns Based on Inconclusive Evidence "
"threatening letters from industry lawyers to the university-as-ISP. Several of the takedown notices identified IP addresses used by university printers. We still know little about actual data collection methods, but the study is a real wake-up call. In the words of Ed Felten (my source), it shows that ?takedowns [are] based on inconclusive evidence.? The study?s authors conclude that deliberate, malicious spoofing is not necessary to generate false positives; real people may be hit by this scattershot method of"
"a new paper from Princeton on open government, the real threat posed by ACTA including some history and an opportunity to act as well as commentary from Bill Patry, the ease of spoofing copyright infringement with some additional points to consider from Ed Felten, and reverse engineering the brain. Following up this week, Media Defender doesn?t defend itself very well and Apple fixes OS X?s implementation of DTrace. Grab the detailed show notes with time offsets and additional links either as "
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