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Originally Posted by Jim Chapman
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".
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Google receives millions of DMCA takedown notices per week to remove links to copyrighted material.[0]
Mozilla doesn't, because they don't link to infringing sites.
A mechanism to allow users to enter their own OPDS URLs would not be a problem, even if they chose to link to an infringing site. Having the app pre-populated with a link to an infringing site is a problem.
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http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/