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<\/p>\nGot lots of other work lined up, despite it being a nice and sunny (but still cold) Sunday for once, so going to have to get through\u00a0the news roundup stuff pretty quickly today!<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Take down, stay down is just censorship by another name, says the Internet Archive<\/p><\/div>\n
The Internet Archive is the latest to come out<\/a> against the proposed “take down, stay down” changes to the DMCA, with the non-profit warning that such a regime could spell\u00a0doom for sites like themselves. The Internet Archive, as its name suggests, archives content on the Internet for\u00a0posterity, and while it endeavors to only store content with the right licensing terms (ie. public domain), the vast amount of data it archives means that some copyrighted content will get through. But under “take down, stay down”, sites like the\u00a0Internet Archive will be made responsible for not only taking down such content, but also identifying it in the first place. This puts tremendous strain on the already limited resources of the Internet Archive, and also opens sites like them up to copyright lawsuits if they fail to implement a robust take down and stay down process.<\/p>\n It’s basically just the latest attempt by rights-holders to shift all\u00a0work and responsibility to others when it comes to copyright enforcement, even though they themselves are the *only* party actually capable of identifying copyrighted content. And such as regime also mean sites must monitor and censor their own users actively, which is a serious privacy risk for users, as well as being a possible danger to freedom of speech on the\u00a0Internet.<\/p>\n But if the copyright lobby greases the right wheels and “take down, stay down” becomes a reality, sites will have to get used to self-enforcement.\u00a0But there will always be a group of sites that won’t be very much interested in self-enforcement, not even if you send them pre-piracy warnings<\/a>.\u00a0That’s what Sony did last\u00a0week, in an attempt to preempt Euro 2016 piracy, by sending pre-piracy warnings to torrent and streaming sites before the first match has even been played. The attempt may have backfired, with many of the sites receiving the notices promising to not only ignore the warnings, but to also put extra focus on bringing pirated matches and clips to users. I guess they’re thinking if Sony are so concerned about piracy that they went to the effort to send pre-piracy notices, it must be anticipating a great demand for such content – demand that the piracy sites would love to meet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n