Comments on: WordPress removes Anil Potti posts from Retraction Watch in error after false DMCA copyright claim

By: buythiscomputer

buythiscomputer — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:36:53 +0000

Hello,

Do you think that it is possible to send a TAKE DOWN NOTICE to a website that published my personal information (name, address, etc…) ?

How to do ?

Thank you.

By: RaoWords

RaoWords — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:17:40 +0000

Newsbulet.in looks like a sham, and DMCS fell for it. What a shame

By: Steven McKinney

Steven McKinney — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:36:15 +0000

February 20th, they’re back. Fifteen days of censorship for a false DMCA claim. Kudos to Ivan and Adam for putting up a good fight to have the pages reinstated. We’ll see how long Abi has to wait before the nanopolitan materials are restored by blogger, and how long it takes to figure out who is really behind the filing of these false claims.

By: Steven McKinney

Steven McKinney — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:28:20 +0000

One week after this false attack, and the original posts are still not available. Guilty until proven innocent. This episode will provide some unfortunate evidence as to the effectiveness of false DMCA claims in silencing unwanted discussion.

By: drgenenelson

drgenenelson — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:33:56 +0000

Some relevant information regarding “Online Reputation Manager” is found in this Daily Caller news story regarding this controversy: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/08/wordpress-pulls-down-blog-posts-after-plagiarist-site-files-complaint/

By: drgenenelson

drgenenelson — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:56:52 +0000

Please review Deborah Blum’s excellent 07 February 2013 article at the MIT Science Journalism site http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2013/02/takedown-retraction-watch regarding this improper DMCA takedown of 10 Retraction Watch articles regarding Anil Potti, M.D. I strongly recommend the on-the-record comment of Ivan Oransky near the end of the article.

By: Obs

Obs — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:47:06 +0000

Yes, I know how it works. But if wordpress.com really cared about their users, and someone there actually bothered to talk to their lawyers, there’s nothing preventing them from speeding up the process when the take-down request is obviously fraudulent (trust me, if every “safe harbor” actor behaved the way they done here, you’d see a lot more things disappear off the Internet). It’s not like “Michael Phelps’ ex-girlfriend” is going to sue anyone…

By: Dave Mosher

Dave Mosher — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:35:42 +0000

Apologies if someone has already said it, but: Get off of WordPress.com. A site of this caliber, calling out important (and often controversial) stories, needs to self-host to avoid technical intrusions like this.

Companies are so litigation-avoidant these days that they’ll do just about anything that anyone asks them to do. This clearly supports that.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:27:28 +0000

The original complainant has 10-14 days to respond to the counter-claim…

By: Paul Colin de Gloucester

Paul Colin de Gloucester — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:01:48 +0000

Reporting a crime to the police does not necessitate civil litigation. It can also be gratis (though not always). Imprisonment of the criminal would be a better outcome than the supposed “best possible outcome” imagined by StrongDreams.