Stefan Mileschin

Here's an interesting piece over at techdirt that explains how liability for copyrighted material on media platforms can be abused to get rid of content that's not really copyrighted. To hear the RIAA/MPAAs of the world, we need to weaken protections for platforms to help artists. Yet, here is a clear example where it's enabling real harm for an actual artist. It's time to stop the petty little tyrants out there that are responsible for removing perfectly legitimate content. Seeing all of this so blatantly put forth suggests that this kind of thing is a lot more common than we realize -- but that's almost to be expected when we give anyone the power to takedown videos by claiming copyright infringement -- and setting things up so that the hosting platforms will face massive liability for failing to comply (and comply quickly, with little investigation).

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/10/..._as_extortion/