In news that one could file under “oddities”, an anti-piracy company has apparently decided to attack several websites in the midst of a rant against BitTorrent website H33t.
Take Down Piracy’s Nate Glass wrote a rather emotional blog posting on his companies blogattacking the DMCA policy of BitTorrent website H33t.
Glass only referred to the website as a “piracy” website, but was ind enough to offer a screenshot of the policy. After plugging in parts of the policy into Google, we found out that the policy mentioned was that of BitTorrent website H33t.
The H33t policy apparently included a provision which says that a takedown request must be accompanied by a $50 administration fee.
Glass referred to the policy as “extortion” and further saying the following:
So not only does this site profit by selling ads using other people’s hard work, but in the event you want your property removed from their website, it’s going to cost you $50 for EACH instance of copyright infringement. The process of removing URLs is something many piracy sites simply automate. Now I know the piracy apologists out there (and you know who you are) like to tout the myth that piracy sites are just some non-profit freedom fighters fighting against the evil corporations, but how can you guys defend this?
Somehow, Glass felt the need to attack several websites that talk about the news in the process, saying, “Something tells me we won’t see TechDirt, ArsTechnica or TorrentFreak doing an article about this, since it conflicts with the narrative they like to push.”
One wonders if some sort of blind attacking of the media was really warranted here.
Glass then went on to say this:
And since the pirate apologists love to trump up made up stories[...], let’s play that same game with them.
Takedown Piracy is closing in on our 7 MILLIONTH infringement removed. So how can we twist that around to make up a scathing headline against piracy? Oh yeah:
7 million infringements
x
$50 per infringement removed
=
TORRENT SITE DEMANDS $350,000,000 TO REMOVE MATERIALS
Takedown Piracy is closing in on our 7 MILLIONTH infringement removed. So how can we twist that around to make up a scathing headline against piracy? Oh yeah:
7 million infringements
x
$50 per infringement removed
=
TORRENT SITE DEMANDS $350,000,000 TO REMOVE MATERIALS
What I will say is that this blog posting by Glass fits in with numerous stereotypes nicely. One stereotype is that anti-piracy outfits make numbers. Glass accomplished that. Another stereotype is that anti-piracy companies simply don’t care about their own PR. Again, Glass accomplished that. What Glass has done was what the Internet community calls “trolling”.
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