Confused Indian Anti-Piracy Group Asks Us To Remove Article It Doesn't Like From Some Other Blog
from the try-again-guys dept
Well, this is bizarre. A few hours ago, we received an email to our copyright notice email address from Aiplex, an Indian anti-piracy/SEO/medical transcription company. You may remember the company because we wrote a short post about them over a year ago, when its CEO said in an interview that it would resort to denial of service attacks on sites that didn't cooperate. We also noted that the somewhat confused company listed "Bram Cohen" as a type of BitTorrent client.Anyway, I'd nearly forgotten about the company until we got this email. But the email is asking us to take down the post. Except, it's not. Rather than asking that we remove our post, it actually asks us to remove a copy of the post on a spam blog that appears to copy every Techdirt post (there are a bunch of sites out there that do this and get no traffic -- it makes no sense to us, but they're free to use our content that way, if they want). Here's the email:
This has reference to the below article on your webpage, we kindly request you to deactivate the link as the article is defaming the company’s image & its prospects. It was mis-interpreted by the news agency which was blown out of proportion by some of the pirates across the globe. And subsequently we have to face damages/threats from the pirates & undergo immense losses due to their attack on our servers/websites etc.Interesting stuff. First of all, they used our copyright notification email, and this issue has nothing to do with copyright. Second, they are asking us to remove our content from a site that is not ours, and which we have no control over. The content did, certainly, originate from our site, but they don't ask us to remove the content on our site. This does not speak highly of their technical skills, let alone their basic understanding of this World Wide Web we live on. Finally, as to the claim that this is "defaming," the article directly quotes the company's CEO.
Although, we did declare that we are not involved in any of those activities as published in the article, we still have to face the consequences for reasons unknown.
Below is the link for your reference:
http://www.phphosts.org/blog/2010/09/bizarre-indian-anti-piracy-group-says-it-does-dos-attacks-on-file-sharing-operations/
We kindly request you to deactivate at the earliest possible please.
Appreciate your help on this matter.
Jagadish
Support Operations
Aiplex Software Pvt. Ltd.
Anyway, seeing as we don't control the web page they've asked us to take down, we obviously won't be doing a damn thing about it, other than to publish this post and hope that, sometime in the future, Aiplex learns a little bit about how the web works.
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"Aiplex-an Indian anti-piracy/SEO/medical transcription company"
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my question is what does anti-piracy, search engine optimization and medical transcription have in common?
and if it's from India, um, where did they outsource to?
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http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/12/vietnam-china-labor-business-manufacturing-outsourcing-ox ford.html
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Jagadish
If you say this really fast it sounds like a head hitting a desk.
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So wait a second...
/I'm so confused....
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At the risk of putting words in the indian's mouths I believe they want you to assert copyright over your article and get the other copy taken down.
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Also, it's "Indians' mouths" (unless he's one of those multi-headed Indian princes you see in the movies).
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Although i do believe he was originally write because he was referring to a whole company so many Indians all with one (presumably) mouth.
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Good luck explaining them the situation, if you take the time to do it of course.
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Perhaps It Has a Specific Purpose
Now assume that they know they have absolutely no reason to force you to remove this post. But they risk you sending legal letters back to them about who owns the copyright and yadda yadda yadda you suck up their time and money.
However, if they contact you and ask you to remove the blog post from another site there is a slight difference in the outcomes: 1) you recognize the blog posting as your own and diligently remove it, afraid to offend anyone or 2) you contact legal who says "wtf?" and you contact them who say "sorry, wrong people" and that's the end of it. They still might achieve their goal without risking a lengthy back-and-forth with you.
Donning a tinfoil hat, I'd say it's possible the run the content duping sites or pay someone to run them to dupe your content so they have this avenue (you said so yourself that there is no reason for these blogs to dupe your content).
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Don't let that stop you.
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If the latter, then maybe the Indians actually clicked on a copyright notification link on that other site, which of course points back to the real Techdirt.
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specifically, the copyright notice does not link back to here.
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techdirt is copied
The site has lots of original content. Some sites will clone the content to get ad revenue.
Other will clone the content in order show better on search and then allow links to their own site.
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That's kinda what the Indian dude is asking
Both request are above what techdirt is required to comply with by law but they're not crazy request as you suggest.
You kinda come across as a bit dense actually, the Indian dude just sounds like he's over-confident in his communication skills in English.
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What are you arguing against? It seems to be something that wasn't said in the article.
The issue with the request, is mainly that phphosts.org =/= techdirt.com, and secondly, that defamation =/= copyright.
Neither of which have anything to do with not understanding 'we request you to deactivate'.
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You're not really in a position to accuse others of being "a bit dense".
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I suppose this means it'll be on about 10,000 other pages tomorrow...
... and this Indian company will have quite a few emails to write to Mike.
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Congratulations Aiplex
Thanks You
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I s time to outsource to other places LoL
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Aiplexx = MPAA, don't forget
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They don't even understand Google Ads
They have no idea what they are doing.
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