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Originally Posted by murraypaul
I'm not sure why you think the notices are spurious?
If you are linking to a site hosting copyright violations, then this is exactly what DMCA takedown notices are designed for.
(Moon+ was linking to such a site, the link has now been removed.)
Pirate sites are not 'competitors' deserving of protection.
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Actually, as I understand it, DMCA takedown notices are intended for taking down the sites actually
hosting violating content. I'm not hosting anything - rather, I am providing links to commonly used sites, and a general purpose mechanism (OPDS catalog compatibility) to let my users get at any book catalog on the internet. Honestly, I think that LitRes' tactics are a bit like going after Google, because "they provide a way that people could use to find the flibusta site" or going after Mozilla because "you can use the Firefox browser to look at stolen material".
And to teh603's point, a bit of googling does rather suggest that LitRes have, in the fairly recent past, themselves been on the wrong side of copyright law.