Copyright is a poor tool for making embarrassing information disappear from the Internet. It rarely succeeds, and often draws more attention to whatever was embarrassing or harmful. Copyright isn’t designed for keeping secrets (in fact, it was generally meant to do the exact opposite by encouraging disclosure). Yet people keep trying to use copyright law, in part because takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are quick and easy, and because the rhetoric of “theft” and threats of ridiculously large penalties can be quite scary. The latest to abuse the DMCA is Avid Life Media, the owner of the Ashley Madison website, which bills itself as “the most famous name in infidelity and married dating.” Ashley Madison’s owners have been sending numerous DMCA takedown notices to platforms like Twitter, Reddit, and others in an attempt to stop the dissemination of millions of names and email addresses of the site’s users. The data was posted publicly this week following a hack of the site in July. While there’s no doubt that the leak is embarrassing and potentially disastrous for the millions of people who have been revealed as users of a site that promotes marital infidelity, Ashley Madison’s attempts to use the DMCA to put the genie back in the bottle are misguided, and in some cases, may violate the DMCA itself. The DMCA creates a “safe harbor” that protects user-generated content websites against liability for copyright infringement by their users. To qualify for the safe harbor, sites have to accept notices of alleged infringement containing certain information and the signature of a responsible party. Upon receiving a notice, a site needs to “expeditiously” disable access to the material identified as infringing in order to receive the protection of the safe harbor. (There are other requirements as well.) The user who posted the material can send a counter-notice if they believe the posting was lawful. After a counter-notice, the site is supposed to put the material back up within 10 to 14 business days. At that point, the rightsholder must file a lawsuit against the poster to have the material taken down. Although the law doesn’t require websites to use the DMCA process, many choose to do so to get the protection of the safe harbor. It’s become a standard practice for websites based in the U.S. and sometimes in other countries. Importantly, the DMCA process applies only to copyright claims. It can’t be used for other complaints like defamation, invasion of privacy, trademark infringement, trade secret disclosures, or violations of a website’s terms of use or community guidelines. The DMCA process is relatively quick and easy. Instead of filing a lawsuit or tracking down the poster, all it requires is an email to the site, or filling out a Web form. After that, the material disappears for at least ten days, and often permanently. This ease of use makes it incredibly tempting to use the DMCA as a tool for censoring online speech that someone doesn’t like, for any number of reasons, from political to personal, but often having no connection to copyright infringement. Sending DMCA notices for material that’s not infringing is against the law, and it can leave the sender liable for damages. But claims for takedown abuse that actually make it to court are rare, and the temptation to use the DMCA as a quick way to get “stuff I don’t like” off of the Internet remains strong. Over the past week, Avid Life has been using DMCA notices to try to contain a damaging and highly embarrassing disclosure of personal information. Regardless of whether their goal is a noble one, their use of the DMCA is problematic. Avid Life probably doesn’t have any copyrights in most of the material the company is trying to suppress. According to news reports, the data leak contained names, addresses, phone numbers, encrypted passwords, and e-mail addresses of Ashley Madison users, as well as users’ own descriptions of what they were looking for on the site. Mere facts, like names, addresses, and phone numbers, aren’t copyrightable. Biographical descriptions or pickup lines written by users can be copyrightable, but the copyright belongs to the users, not the site owners. While it might be possible for a website to have its users transfer their copyrights to the site’s owner, this is relatively difficult and rarely done, and we would be surprised if Avid Life successfully did this to Ashley Madison users. It’s more likely that users simply gave the site a “non-exclusive license” to store and post their material, but that sort of license doesn’t give the site any authority to send DMCA takedowns on users’ behalf. It’s possible for the site to have a copyright in the “selection and arrangement” of users’ data, but only if they used some creativity in selecting users or putting their database in order. Obvious forms of organization like an alphabetical listing don’t give the database owner any copyright. To claim this form of copyright, Avid Life would have to show that someone copied not just the user data but Avid’s creative arrangement of the data. This is also unlikely. According to reports, Avid’s DMCA takedown notices were vague about the claims they were making. The notices contained statements like “Avid owns all intellectual property in the data.” But without a valid claim of copyright infringement, a DMCA takedown notice isn’t valid, and websites don’t need to comply with it. While some reposts and discussions of the Ashley Madison leak have been taken down, others remain up, and Avid’s DMCA campaign is unlikely to curtail access to the data very much. There are likely millions of people who would like to see the Ashley Madison user data disappear from the Internet, including the site’s owner. Undoubtedly, the leak has done and will do great damage. But DMCA notices are not a tool for putting the genie back in the bottle. Using them for non-copyright purposes is against the law, and encourages more abuse, such as censoring political commentary and criticism. If Avid Life doesn’t actually hold any copyrights in the user data—the most likely scenario—then their use of the DMCA is not only ineffective but wrong.

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No matter how curious you are, there are two reasons not to download the Ashley Madison database of would-be cheaters: It's potentially dangerous and it's stolen property. Security experts are busy rifling through the database of some 37 million names on the site that were posted by hackers this week. But they have some advice: don't try this at home. The actual 9.7 gigabytes of data posted by the hackers, who call themselves The Impact Team, was posted on the Dark Web in two chunks, one on Tuesday and one Thursday. But getting to them isn't easy for the non-technical. The Dark Web is a series of networks accessible only by running specific software and, in some cases, with specific authorization. Running this software to download the databases could expose your computer to spyware, viruses and theft of your personal information. The Ashley Madison databases were initially only available via Tor browsers, or Internet browsers that allow users to access information without making visible their Internet addresses. Since being posted, the databases have also been shared via the file-sharing system BitTorrent. It's a legitimate way to move large files around, but users who aren't familiar with it, and with the Dark Web, could potentially expose themselves to malicious software without realizing it. "If you know what you're doing, it's probably not dangerous. If you don't, it could be," said Jonathan Cran, vice president of operations at Bugcrowd, a San Francisco-based computer security company. "There's certainly a reputation amongst torrent sites that there's more danger of being infected with malware or spyware," said Cran. Legally, it's also an iffy proposition. By law, the entire database belongs to Avid Life Media, the company that owns the Ashley Madison site. Downloading it is legally the same as downloading a pirated movie. It's stolen property, said Scott Vernick, partner and head of the data security and privacy practice at the law firm of Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia. "Just because this information is available on the Internet doesn't mean it's open season and you can just go and get it without impunity," Vernick said. As a practical matter, he admits it's unlikely the police are going to go after everyone who downloads the files, even if they could be identified. But it is stolen property and should be treated as such. "You'd be guilty of some kind of copyright violation, for which there are civil penalties," Vernick said. And of course, if anyone tries to use the stolen data for extortion, blackmail or commercial advantage "you're breaking the law," he said. If you simply must search the list, the safest way to do so is to go to one of the multiple searchable database sites that have been created using the stolen data. They include Trustify, Cynic.al, and Have I been pwned?. Though which sites are up is subject to change. Already one of the first, CheckAshleyMadiscon.com, has been removed after Avid Life's legal team threatened it with copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, according to a statement on the site. wtsp.com

So we recently had a post saying that no resets were going to happen. Obviously if you look, some stats have been lost. We're not sure what exactly happened, but those of you that are active realized that the site was down for most of the day. Our dev team is looking into the specifics and as soon as I get them you'll get them, promise. We were storing stats in the tracker and hadn't moved them to being stored on the site yet, and whatever happened merc'd our tracker DB, which is why stats are back to 0 again. We apologize, but we also want to remind you that it could definitely happen again. Probably. As always, thanks for the bug reports and suggestions. We're working hard to bring the site live.

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Police in the country revealed they have arrested about 15,000 people for cybercrimes – i.e. the ones that “jeopardized online security”. Of course, this is inspired by the government in a bid to tighten controls on the worldwide web. The statistics said that police have investigated 7,400 cases of cybercrime. The ministry of public security made the data transparent, but didn’t specify over what period the arrests were made. However, a case dating to December 2014 was referred to in the statement. Back in July, China announced the start of a 6-month program dubbed “Cleaning the Internet”. The ministry of public security said that for the next step, the public security bodies would continue to develop their investigation and crackdown on online crimes. It is known that the program in question targeted websites that provided unlawful and harmful data, advertisements for porn, explosives, firearms and gambling. According to statistics, overall, police investigated as many as 66,000 websites. The communist country runs one of the most sophisticated online censorship mechanisms in the world, which is widely known as the Great Firewall of China. In the meantime, the state-backed censors keep a tight grip on what information can be published online, especially content that could potentially undermine the ruling Communist party. At the beginning of 2015, the local Internet watchdog announced that from 1 March it would ban Internet accounts deemed as impersonating people or organizations. The agency also promised to enforce a requirement for Internet users to use their real names when registering accounts in the web.

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The movie studio behind the movie Dallas Buyers Club continues to hunt alleged copyright infringers in the United States. In a new court filing the company explains the measures it takes identify the true pirates. As part of this strategy the filmmakers want the court to grant two hour depositions of Internet subscribers whose connections were used to pirate the film. The makers of Dallas Buyers Club have sued hundreds of BitTorrent users over the past year. Many of these cases end up being settled for an undisclosed amount. This usually happens after the filmmakers obtain the identity of the Internet account holder believed to have pirated the movie. Not all alleged downloaders are eager to pay up though. In fact, many don’t respond to the settlement letters they receive or claim that someone else must have downloaded the film using their connection. In a recent court filing (pdf) at a Washington District Court the filmmakers explain the efforts they undertake to ensure that the right person is accused. This includes gathering information from Facebook, LinkedIn and even Google Maps. “Google address mapping and county records were investigated to confirm ownership/rental status of and residence at the property associated with the IP address, as well as observe the physical makeup and layout of the house and neighborhood to anticipate possible claims that a wireless signal was highjacked by someone outside of the residence,” the filmmakers explain. The router security settings and download history of a specific connection are used as additional pieces of information to ensure that the alleged copyright infringements are systematic. “Further, given the standard security measures imposed by ISPs to prevent unauthorized use of an IP address, the volume of piracy demonstrated over the extended observation period could not be the result of someone driving by, a temporary house guest or a hacker sitting in a car on the street.” While the methods above are already quite invasive, Dallas Buyers Club now aims to take it up a notch. In order to pinpoint the true pirates the movie studio wants to depose 15 account holders. This means that they will have to testify under oath for up to two hours and face a grilling from the studio’s legal team. This is the first time that we’ve seen a request for a deposition in a Dallas Buyers Club case. Needless to say, a testimony under oath can be quite intimidating, and is highly unusual in these type of cases. The account holders of IP-addresses linked to the pirated downloads have already been identified by the ISP. However, they failed to respond to the movie studio or denied that they had shared the film illegally. Through a testimony under oath, the movie studio hopes to identify the true pirates, so they can be named in the lawsuit. “DBC believes that further discovery is warranted to confirm which of any possible occupants of the physical address assigned the infringing IP address is the proper Doe defendant to be named in the case,” they note. The filmmakers suspect that some of the subscribers are the actual infringers, but it’s possible that they’re covering for someone else, such as a roommate or spouse. “A subscriber should not be allowed to shield, immunize and anonymize those they allow to use their Internet service from liability for intentional torts. The subscriber is the single best and perhaps only source of information as to the responsible party using its IP address.” According to the filmmakers the depositions will result in a reduction of legal expenses while guaranteeing the anonymity of the defendants. However, more critical observers may also note that it is an optimal tool to pressure ISP subscribers who choose to ignore settlement requests and other threats. At the time of writing the court has yet to rule on the discovery request.

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After promising a strong response to piracy for several years, Indonesia has finally taken action against The Pirate Bay. Along with fellow torrent index IsoHunt.to, the site is among almost two dozen others now ordered by the Ministry of Communications to be blocked at the ISP level. After being accused of doing little to stop piracy both on and offline, in 2009 Indonesia was placed on the USTR’s Priority Watch List for failing to protect US intellectual property rights. In 2011 the Indonesian government announced that it would begin to take tough measures, including having local ISPs block the most-visited sites. “The plan is to block famous sites, like 4shared for example,” Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring said at the time. Four years later (and after blocking sites including Reddit, Imgur and Vimeo on decency grounds) Indonesia is finally taking action against sites that infringe copyrights. Following the signing last month of a Joint Ministerial Decree intended to protect film producers, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has ordered almost two dozen domains to be blocked at the ISP level. While there is a nod to U.S. concerns with a blockade of both ThePirateBay.se and Isohunt.to, the remainder (list below) are sites frequented mainly by locals. 4shared is not among them. Certainly, the tone of the government’s announcement during a press conference this week indicated that local producer interests are behind the blocking order. Famous (and outstanding) martial arts movies The Raid and The Raid 2 were mentioned specifically. “What is offered in the virtual world is not according to the law. In order to protect the intellectual property rights of our art we must block these sites,” said Rudiantara, Minister of Communications and Information Technology. “The government wants to protect the work of artists in Indonesia. The damage suffered by the creators of content in Indonesia has been great.” According to Director General of Intellectual Property, Ahmad M. Ramli, future complaints will be sent to him and will be actioned within 24 hours. Protection of movies will be the priority. “The most at risk of piracy and violations of intellectual property rights on the internet are movies. If songs are heard [people will listen to them again], but if a downloaded movie is viewed, then people won’t watch them anymore,” Ramli said. Minister of Human Rights and Justice, Yasonna Laoly, said that action needed to be taken but due to the elusive nature of site owners, blocking was the only solution. “It’s really not good for industrial development and innovation in the film industry, music industry, and with respect to copyright. This is our creative economy,” the minister said. “We are taking care of the websites because finding the people behind the websites is complicated. We do not know where to find them.” Some of the domains on the blocklist are now down internationally too, although the reasons for that remain unclear. In the meantime (and alongside Algeria, Argentina, Chile, China, Ecuador, India, Kuwait, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and Venezuela), Indonesia remains on the USTR’s Priority Watch List 2015. The full list of blocked domains is: Ganool.com, Nontonmovie.com, Bioskops.com, Ganool.ca, Kilasan.to, Thepiratebay.se, Downloadfilmbaru.com, Ganool.co.id, 21filmcinema.com, Gudangfilm.caa.im, Movie76.com, Isohunt.to, Cinemaindo.net, Bioskop24.net, Ganool.in, Unduhfilm21.net, Bioskopkita.com, Downloadfilem.com, Comotin.net, Movie2k.ti, Unduhmovie.com and 21sinema.com. https://torrentfreak.com/indonesia-b...others-150820/

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Kim Dotcom almost partnered with Universal Music in a deal that would have 'taxed' GoogleMegaupload founder Kim Dotcom almost partnered with Universal Music just days before the cloud storage service was taken down by the US authorities.A recording of the controversial entrepreneur in discussion with several executives from the record label has been obtained by TorrentFreak.The leak suggests that Universal were interested in Dotcom's Megakey platform, a system for monetising free music online by swapping out the adverts users would normally see with ones supplied by Mega.Internet companies like Google would be the victim of this system as Megakey users would see Mega adverts rather than those provided by search engines and other online service providers.Users would have earned credits to download free tracks in exchange for viewing advertisements, and 33% of the ad revenue would go back to the record label."If we were to enter a partnership with UMG, we would advise to only, for example at the start, to only replace ads being served from Google. Because Google, frankly, is benefiting the most of all internet companies from piracy," said Dotcom."They host the world's largest piracy index and if you want to find a song that belongs to UMG you just go to Google and you find a thousand links on a hundred different sites."These guys are probably not sending you the ad dollars that they are making, so I think that replacing ads from Google would be a fair thing. You are basically now charging a little tax for the benefits that they have with your content."The recording also suggests Dotcom sought the help of Universal to have Megaupload removed from industry blacklists, offering to drop a lawsuit against them in return.The conversation took place just two days before the US authorities derailed Dotcom's Megaupload plans by taking down the service and raiding his properties, levelling allegations of copyright infringement against his empire.Dotcom claims that the recorded evidence proves that he was only out to help artists generate revenue from the internet."This call was two days before the raid. They were excited about Megabox and especially my Megakey innovation. It clearly shows that I was trying to help artists to create more income from the internet," he said.

After Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Manjhi, now Sunny Deol’s unreleased Mohalla Assi gets targeted by pirates!The full film gets leaked online before it could get the stay by HC on its release lifted.Last week, we were the first to report that Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Manjhi got leaked online on torrent sites. The movie is scheduled to release this week.As Bollywood is yet to recover from this setback, another tragedy of a similar magnitude was just around the corner. Sunny Deol and Sakshi Tanwar’s Mohalla Assi, directed by Dr Chandra Prakash Dwivedi of Chanakya and Pinjar fame, has been under piracy attack.The film was in Censor troubles over the use of swear words and certain derogatory references on Hinduism as was evident in the leaked trailer (Yup, the film’s trailer was also leaked!). Now the entire movie is available in torrent sites.We have pasted a few screenshots of the film, as found in a few of these sites.From what we have learnt from the source who has informed us about the leak, the movie is intact with all the cuss words and objectionable scenes. So it’s apparent that someone from the film’s core team or in the censor body is behind the leak.It’s high time, that Bollywood and the police should come together and curb this menace, before more films suffer such large financial setbacks. After all, not every film can make money like Bajrangi Bhaijaan and PK.

CreativeFuture, the organization set up to mobilize content creators on piracy, has formed a leadership committee. Members include Alec Berg, Albert Berger, Marty Bowen, Martha De Laurentiis, Cassian Elwes, Wyck Godfrey, John N. Hart Jr., Lisa Henson, Marshall Herskovitz, Gale Anne Hurd, Charles King, Hawk Koch, John Krokidas, Dawn Prestwich, Ann Roth, Teddy Schwarzman, Jeff Sharp, Kurt Sutter, John Toll, Joana Vicente and Janet Yang. The organization said the members of the committee advocate for the “fundamental right of creatives to determine how their works are distributed.” The organization has been pressing advertisers and other legitimate businesses to cut off ties with piracy sites. Ruth Vitale is its CEO.

Password changes for freeleech People who attempt to make a profit off of torrenting are harmful to our community. One of the most common types of said person are those who hack accounts and then sell the invites on those accounts. Hackers are able to gain access to accounts with weak, old, or reused passwords. In an effort to bolster the security of our users, we are planning to implement password expiration (passwords would expire upon becoming 2 years old). The problem with implementing password expiration is that on roll-out day, nearly 100,000 users would be affected. That number is far too high for us to deal with. So, we are asking you all to reset your passwords before we implement this new feature. In case us asking isn't enough, we are offering some incentives, detailed below. Over the course of the next 4 weeks (August 17 - September 14), Each user will be awarded 10 Freeleech Tokens upon resetting their password (one time only) If 50% of the site resets their password within the event, there will be a 2 day sitewide neutral leech If 70% of the site resets their password within the event, there will be a 2 day sitewide freeleech If 90% of the site resets their password within the event, there will be a 4 day sitewide freeleech Invites will be closed for the duration of the event (Note that leech disabled users will not be able to download using their Freeleech Tokens) Please choose a unique password. A majority of compromised accounts are due to reused passwords. See this wiki for some best practices regarding password choices. Please also take this opportunity to make sure your email attached to your account is up to date. Please help us spread the word about this event -- tell your friends, inviter, and invitees. We need your help and cooperation to successfully implement password expiration. Thank you, and good luck.

We're aware that activity has slipped quite a bit, and we're chalking it up to people not wanting to download because of their stats being reset. Stats will not be reset again when we launch, and the bonus point system is being tested in our dev environment. We only have a couple more things to get done before we launch (fix some Syndicate issues and implement HnR stuff) so we'd like to ramp up the activity to make sure we've squashed as many bugs as possible. Along with the above, we'd also like to announce a couple new things: -Notifications via Email (For now you can turn this off in the Notifications section of your profile editor.) -Requests are now fillable and send out notifications to everyone that voted. -You can now 'like' forum posts. Over the next little bit we'll be tweaking the Bootstrap style and making it the site default, while retiring milkdream. The schedule sidebar will be added as well as searching functionality. If anyone creates a stylesheet they'd like to share, we'd be glad to have it in the Coding and Development forum. Thanks for sticking with us!