After the news went viral about Starz getting Twitter to remove TorrentFreak's tweet, Starz is successfully applying DMCA takedowns to others' tweets about it
Ernesto / TorrentFreak : Tweets: @rakeshlobster , @manan , @pt , @crankycatcoder , and @pt See also Mediagazer Tweets: Rakesh Agrawal / @rakeshlobster : Twitter can't fucking patrol trolls, but hey, bogus DMCA claims... we're right on those! https://twitter.com/... @manan : Twitter leadership is a parody. Twitter is actually run like Hooli.प http://twitter.com/... Parker / @pt : If the platform asks the user and the user says it's not infringing, there's no liability for the platform & the recourse is to litigate. Obviously that would not happen in this case. I get why platforms bias here to conservative lawyers, but the safe harbor is really safe. Catcoder / @crankycatcoder : I don't see how dispute resolution mechanisms can ever be cheap enough to run at scale. I think it's always going to be easier to take stuff down unless doing so garners the platform sufficiently bad press. Parker / @pt : Platforms are far too aggressive in removing legal speech including journalism when copyright holders (defined *very* loosely) demand it. I'm not aware of any that even follow the DMCA (which allows users to reject infringement claims). Would be great to see them do better. @jack http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer