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AIDS Deniers Use Bogus Copyright Claims to Censor

posted by Dopefish on Sunday February 16 2014, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-deny-reality? dept.
Blackmoore writes: "The producers of "House of Numbers" have used a series of bogus copyright takedown notices to get Youtube to remove videos, in which he uses clips from the documentary as part of his criticism, showing how they mislead viewers and misrepresent the facts and the evidence. It's pure censorship: using the law to force the removal of your opponents' views."
 
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  • (Score: 1) by edIII on Monday February 17 2014, @02:29PM

    by edIII (791) on Monday February 17 2014, @02:29PM (#923)

    I believe it is just your standard corrupt DMCA takedown notices, but also YouTube's custom way in which you can make objections. To my knowledge that entire system is horribly skewed to support the accuser, and not the accused.

    However, that is a problem not just with YouTube, but with the entire IP environment in the US period. Fair Use is being violently attacked by monied interests, along with the Public Domain. Even the Public Domain to these interests is treated like some Pinko-Communist-Socialist disease that needs to be eliminated at all costs.

    It's very similar to the credit reporting agencies. A business can expend practically no effort at all to ruin your credit, and consumers are left with an expensive burden (high interest-credit availability-punitive contractual clauses) to reverse the damages. It's a not-so-funny joke that a business can report a single detraction at will, but needs to bundle up positive notes on your credit 1000 at a time. It's quite literally geared towards creating 3rd party duress on the consumer to threaten them into paying a bill, even with a legitimate dispute.

    Why have Due Process when you can just threaten them into submission and levy punitive measures against a weaker opponents with no judicial oversight?

    Copyrights are no different. The system is geared towards the copyright owners and the proponents of the system were full of shit when they claimed that abuses like this would be limited. The abuse is widespread and has created the ability for corporations to now censor and control what people see.

    Governments are troubling for sure, but there is ZERO chance that a corporation has the citizen's best interests at heart. Capitalism tells us that nothing is off limits if it services the share holders, and this is what we get when we allow such notions to override our common sense and good judgement.