Comment by duckmysick
4 months ago
My favorite bit:
> More importantly, Tony recognized the voice of “Daniel from Google” when it was featured in an interview by Junseth, a podcaster who covers cryptocurrency scams. The same voice that had coaxed Tony out of his considerable cryptocurrency holdings just days earlier also had tried to phish Junseth, who played along for several minutes before revealing he knew it was a scam.
> [...]
> Daniel told Junseth he and his co-conspirators had just scored a $1.2 million theft that was still pending on the bitcoin investment platform SwanBitcoin. In response, Junseth tagged SwanBitcoin in a post about his podcast on Twitter/X, and the CEO of Swan quickly replied that they caught the $1.2 million transaction that morning.
> Apparently, Daniel didn’t appreciate having his voice broadcast to the world (or his $1.2 million bitcoin heist disrupted) because according to Junseth someone submitted a baseless copyright infringement claim about it to Soundcloud, which was hosting the recording.
> The complaint alleged the recording included a copyrighted song, but that wasn’t true: Junseth later posted a raw version of the recording to Telegram, and it clearly had no music in the background. Nevertheless, Soundcloud removed the audio file.
DMCA enabling bad actors to cover their tracks was not on my bingo list.
Are there examples of DMCA being used in a positive manner?
You mean besides literally all the times when people upload raw copyrighted movies and music to YouTube? DMCA is boring and un-newsworthy when it's working properly. (Unless you're the type who thinks copyright is inherently wrong, but it would then be very silly to ask if DMCA was ever "used in a manner".)
Someone once took one of my youtube videos and reuploaded it with a link to malware in the description. I took down the video with a copyright claim.