Re: High levels of DMCA notifications

["Sweeny, Jonny" <jsweeny () IU EDU>]

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The last four months have been high (~380 to 420 notices per month), but nothing compared to our numbers in April 2008 
(>800 notices).


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~Jonny Sweeny, GSEC, GCWN, GCIH, GWAS
Incident Response Manager, Lead Security Analyst
Office of the VP for Information Technology, Indiana University
PGP & S/MIME: http://informationsecurity.iu.edu/Jonny_Sweeny
jsweeny () iu edu -- phone: (812) 855-4194 -- fax: (812) 856-1011




- -----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Joel 
Rosenblatt
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 15:51
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] High levels of DMCA notifications

Now that you mention it, there does seem to be a big increase - sure am glad I have that nifty automated DMCA system in 
place :-)

Month      #  % of year

Jan . .  237  8.5%
Feb . .  209  7.5%
Mar . .  115  4.1%
Apr . .  246  8.8%
May . .  185  6.6%
Jun . .   85  3.0%
Jul . .  157  5.6%
Aug . .  114  4.1%
Sep . .  222  8.0%
Oct . .  398 14.3%
Nov . .  534 19.3%   <-- this is the all time high for us for 1 month
Dec . .  264  9.5%

Thanks,
Joel

Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


- --On Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:00 PM -0700 Bob Bayn <bob.bayn () USU EDU> wrote:

> Yup, I'm processing way more DMCA notifiations than every before, too.
>
> On a related note, we had never received a notofication from the Frank Zappa Family Trust before, but got our first 
> one last week.  But it wasn't a takedown
> notice, it was a presettlement notice.  It was also not sent to our registered DMCA agent address.
>
> Anybody else ever dealth with the Zappas?
>
> Bob Bayn        (435)797-2396      Security Team coordinator
>   Don't let hackers use your computer when you aren't.
>   Turn off your computer at the end of your work day.
> Office of Information Technology   at  Utah State University
> ________________________________________
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of John Baines 
> [John_Baines () NCSU EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:31 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] High levels of DMCA notifications
>
> We are seeing very high levels of DMCA notifications during November and December 2009. They are running two to three 
> times monthly averages for the last
> twelve months, and the November 2009 total volume received is over four times the November 2008 total. Is anyone else 
> seeing the same thing? Is this volume
> of notifications a reaction by the copyright holders to the HEOA including "a vigorous program of accepting and 
> responding to Digital Millennium Copyright
> Act (DMCA) notices" under "a variety of technology-based deterrents"?
>
> JLB
>
>
>
>
> John L. Baines
> John_Baines () ncsu edu
> Voice: 919-513-7482
> Mobile: 919-215-3682
>
> Assistant Director  (AD) Security Standards and Compliance team,
> Security & Compliance unit,
> Office of Information Technology (OIT)
> North Carolina State University
> Hillsborough Bldg, Room 207-D
> 2620 Hillsborough St.
> Campus Box 7109
> Raleigh, NC 27695-7109



Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel


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