Google is breaking the law

Please mirror this video but make sure that you refer back to the original as I need to gather as much evidence as possible of how endemic this systematic abuse is. Google SHOULD respond promptly to DMCA Counter Notifications. Instead, they arrogate to themselves the job of acting as judiciary, and they obstruct the legal process set out in the Safe Harbor provisions of the DMCA by refusing to process people's counter notifications. This has to stop.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• google
• breaks
• DMCA
• law
• by
• refusing
• to
• honour
• counter
• notifications

[HappyCabbie]

I thumbed up this video

[rozeboosje]

@HappyCabbie Thanks man. If you hear anybody complaining of this happening to them, can you point them in my direction? Still gathering them nuts, man.

[HappyCabbie]

@rozeboosje actually I grabbed a YouTube employee and sat them down in front of this video. Now before I can post what I was told, I have to clear NDA Non Disclosure. However, I can tell you that a YouTube staff member has seen this video. I would appreciate it if you wouldn't do a video about this as it would just flood my Inbox. I need to find out more of what I can disclose of what I was told.

[rozeboosje]

@HappyCabbie That would be great, because I don't care if this takes me one year, or two, or three, or even four. But I will keep on gathering the evidence. Because I'm not willing to let this stand.

[rozeboosje]

@HappyCabbie And no, I won't be making any videos about this, even if only because it's prudent to keep one's cards close to one's chest. Not that this is necessarily a card *yet* ...

[rozeboosje]

@HappyCabbie Let me put it this way, though. If there were a good and valid explanation as to why they feel justified in ignoring a DMCA counter notification there is no reason why this could not be discussed in public. If they feel the need to hide behind a "non-disclosure" agreement with you after explaining to you why they are doing it it only bolsters my suspicion that they are breaking the law. Maybe because they feel it opens the floodgate to *other* litigation, but that's not MY problem.

[RINGOTVHD]

My case my interest you. Its been over a month and a few days and Youtube haven't processed of forward three counter-notices to the claimants who file DMCA's against my RINGO4LIFE account.

Due to false DMCA my RINGO4LIFE account was suspended and now Youtube is ignoring my counter-claims.

Check your PM.

[rozeboosje]

@gulbirk Agreed. I think that in their zeal to protect the latter they got so fanatical that they ended up creating laws that could be abused in 1000 different ways. It's depressing.

[gulbirk]

@rozeboosje Yeah well ok.

But I still think that Copy right laws are to some extent bullshit.

If I make something, I dont give a shit if someone show that to others are responds to it, or whatever.

The only thing I would object to is someone else presenting it as their material.

[rozeboosje]

@gulbirk Of course, though in fairness copyright disputes normally aren't about stopping something from saying something. False DMCAs excepted.