Archive for June 10th, 2008
>> The DMCA And Monitoring Agents: Is Torrenting The Copyright Equivalent of ‘Driving While Black’?
1 Comment Published June 10th, 2008 in Business, Consumer, Copyright, Internet, NewsA number of news sources and commentators are reporting this week on a University of Washington white paper criticizing the recent development of using automated processes (‘bots’ or monitoring agents) against BitTorrent and other heavy bandwidth users to generate automated DMCA takedown demands. Many takedown demands are based solely on observed patterns of Internet use. [...]