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online reporting by INDependent journalist Dean Sterling Jones

Tag: DMCA

  • Brittain Gets Streisanded

    Popehat and techdirt publish articles based on my blog post about “revenge pornster” and Dryvyng CEO Craig R. Brittain re: DMCA takedown requests Via “As A Dog Returns To His Vomit, Lunatic Revenge Porn Extortionist and Dryvyng CEO Craig Brittain Returns To Censorious Threats” by Ken White, Popehat, April 6, 2017: Thanks to Dean Sterling Jones…

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  • Info-Warring

    Leading U.S. conspiracy news website InfoWars accused of stealing content According to multiple DMCA complaints that were sent to Google, InfoWars didn’t seek permission before republishing articles that originally featured on pro-gun news website AmmoLand and Danish-run news website nsnbc international. AmmoLand editor Fredy Riehl claims that InfoWars duplicated, in full, his July 11, 2015 interview with Donald…

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  • Dishing the Dirt II

    Burlington Police Department responds to Techdirt.com article based on my blog post re: failed attempt to censor news stories about arrests, insists someone is pretending to abuse copyright law to protect reputation Last week, I blogged about a DMCA/copyright complaint filed by so-called ‘legal agent’ Mike Ferrell who claimed to represent the Burlington, Massachusetts Police Department,…

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  • Dishing the Dirt

    Techdirt.com publishes article based on my blog post re: failed attempt to censor journalists reporting on crime in Massachusetts [UPDATE: Massachusetts cops says someone else filed the fraudulent DMCA requests] Yesterday, Techdirt.com founder/editor Mike Masnick – and, incidentally, the man who coined the term the “Streisand effect” – wrote an article based on my November 18,…

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  • Down by [Copyright] Law

    Are Massachusetts cops trying to censor local journalists? [UPDATE: Massachusetts cops says someone else filed the fraudulent DMCA requests] Earlier this month, ‘legal agent’ Mike Ferrell filed a copyright complaint with Google¹ on behalf of the Burlington Police Department, in Massachusetts, requesting the deletion of a number of local news articles regarding arrests made by the department. In his November…

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