Re: DMCA Infringement Handling

[Ed Zawacki <edz () UIC EDU>]

On 9/15/2011 5:53 PM, Adrian Teo wrote:
> Agreed.
>
> I built a small homegrown script to help us automate DMCA Infringement
> handling. Out of this I learned a lot, and this is just by looking the
> DMCA reporting/notice system used by the copyright enforcers.

Ditto on the homegrown script....must be a lot of those out there :)
>  1. We get a ton of false positives. This includes mismatched
>     IP/timestamps etc.
I agree on the timestamps. Our script first checks the flow file for the
given timestamp. If that fails it will check +/- 15 minutes.

>  1. As Matt mentioned, a ton of the DMCA notices are for IP's outside
>     our networks (i.e. Not even from our university network!!)
We have never received a notice for a ip outside of our range.
>  1. DMCA complaints have to be worded a certain way for them to be
>     legally binding. Some "smart" enforcers have changed the wording
>     of the complaint and that raises red flags making the notices
>     invalid.
>  2. The enforcers seem to gravitate to the established ACNS XML
>     standard for their complaint. We use this to automate our handling
>     but several companies have arbitrarily defined their own
>     modifications to their standard -- which gives us a ton of
>     headaches since they change them willy-nilly.
Seen this and it is a pain when they pop up.
> 1.
>
>
>
> I found that valid notices only account for less than 13% of the total
> notices that we receive daily. We had since implemented network
> filters to eliminate (almost 100%) all P2P traffic and the complaints
> have gone down significantly, but this has not changed the percentage
> of invalid complaints.

Aside from the timestamp mismatch, I would guess that about 99% of the
notices we receive are accurate. Odd.

> Anyway, I hope that sharing this helps out by giving some insight to
> the DMCA complaint systems.
>
> Regards
>
> -AT
>
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