One thing that I've seen a lot by Techdirt is the harm DMCA takedown notification easy to do. From a legitimate site formwork ebook ready to remove negative comments destroy a Flickr user account for the disconnected call a lawyer for the copyright of the site, the DMCA notice is the weapon of rigor for defenders of copyright. Collateral damage is simply shrugged and follow the instructions to fly at an increasing rate.

textbook publisher Pearson has triggered a series of unfortunate events with a takedown notice issued by order a copy of the Beck scale Hoplessness published by a professor at one of the sites Web Edublogs "(You may remember Pearson as other absurdities book art related to copyright $ 180 free pictures and free textbooks Ever!). The end result? Nearly 1.5 million teachers and blogs, welcoming students offline for Edublogs' Peasant ServerBeach. wpmu.org James fills in the details.

case you do not already know, not only the people behind this site and WPMU DEV, Edublogs but ... configuring the largest and the second oldest WordPress Multisite on the web, with, from now 1,451,943 teachers and students hosted blogs.

And today, our hosting company, ServerBeach, who will pay $ 6,954.37 per month for Edublogs, off our Web servers, without prior notice, within 12 hours after sending e-mail us with DMCA.

Because one of our teachers, in 2007, had shared a copy of the Hopelessness Scale Beck with his class, a list of 20 questions for a total of about 279 words, published in 1974, Pearson would pay $ 120.

Leaving aside for a moment the fact that Pearson feels somehow a questionnaire of 38 years is $ 120 and

that the specific job was originally published in 2007, there is always the nagging question of why ServerBeach felt compelled to take 1.5 million blogs in a DMCA notice. There is nothing in the DMCA process requires that a set of "ecosystem" was killed to eliminate a single "bad apple". This type of excruciating overfulfillment gives copyright owners certain all the encouragement they need to continue to abuse the system DMCA.

Make this catastrophe worse is that Edublogs already has a system for handling complaints regarding copyright. In the first line of 1.5 million blogs, constantly struggling with Edublogs scrapers and spam blogs (splogs) to return the content. The notice sent to Edublogs had already been treated and removed the offensive post, but these measures are not yet sufficient.

So yesterday, when we received a DMCA notice to our guests, we thought it was probably a splog, but it turned out that n ' was not, and not just in 2007 with a teaching blog sharing some materials with their students ...

and denounces in particular the link is still in the Google cache, so it can be examined by itself even until Pearson lawyers make Google take down ... or maybe Google off ;)





So I looked, I thought if we did not Pearson was probably right in this regard, and given that it had not been used during the last five years "splogged" the site so that the content was no longer available and informed ServerBeach.
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