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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
As some of you may already know, this week we received a DCMA take-down notice from Amazon requesting the removal of the tool kindlepid.py and instructions associated with it. Although we never hosted this tool (contrary to their claim), nor believe that this tool is used to remove technological measures (contrary to their claim), we decided, due to the vagueness of the DMCA law and our intention to remain in good relation with Amazon, to voluntarily follow their request and remove links and detailed instructions related to it.
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Was this actually a DMCA take down notice? If so, don't you need to notify everyone who had their posts removed that you did so at Amazon's request? They then can send you a counter notice that the post did not violate Amazon's copyright and if Amazon does not sue them (not you) within 10 days then the material should be replaced. I am basing this on
Wiki: Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (which obviously isn't legal advise on individual cases, and may not apply to "technological measures" takedowns). I sounds as if Amazon sent you something other than a take down notice, or they sent you a notice for specific material, kindlepid, which was never posted on mobileread (so far as I know and I follow kindlepid closely) and it was mobileread that removed everything else. How about posting their entire letter? I would love to see an official DMCA take down notice.
It is interesting that the actual software in question is still available from its original source. So either eBlogger is slower to respond to Amazon's "request" than mobileread, or Amazon will need to send an actual DMCA takedown notice for the software to be removed. At that point Igor will be able to respond. I'm not sure I would advise him to do so, but I would contribute to a legal fund to fight the takedown.