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Originally Posted by murraypaul
That's why they crushed the many much more high profile sites for legally sharing material? Oh, they didn't.
They aren't trying to stop you giving away your IP for free. They are trying to stop you giving away their IP for free.
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And IP that's not theirs, if it happens to look somewhat like theirs and be stored or listed near it. Like the SFWA's takedown notice to Scribd that included content by authors not in the SFWA, and content that the SFWA hadn't been authorized to control (like Doctorow's ebooks), the RIAA's takedown notices have included claims on content they don't have the rights for, and claims on content that involves fair use.
It's been established that fair use isn't just a defense usable in courts; rights holders have to consider it when issuing notices. Unless, of course, the rights holder has so much more money than the people getting notified that there's no chance of them filing a claim for falsification of a DMCA report.