Warner Bros, Hotfile and EFF Fight Over Bogus Automated Takedown Requests

Posted: 2012/09/21 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Stats / reports

The dispute between file-hosting service Hotfile and Warner Bros, where the latter is accused of taking down content they don’t hold the copyrights to, is heating up. The court has accepted a brief filed by the EFF who argue that the automated takedown requests of the movie company represent a threat to free speech. Warner Bros quickly replied and disputes that computers are more accurate than humans, arguing that broad automated takedown systems are not incompatible with the DMCA law.

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-defends-bogus-automated-takedown-requests-120920/

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