This is the entire problem created when a company isn't permitted to look at evidence from off-site. The detail missing from this story is that the one doing it is blackmailing them for ransoms. Recently a number of artist accounts (some of them my friends & mutuals) operating under pseudonyms have gotten their accounts suspended from Twitter's automatic DMCA takedown system from scammer(s) filing multiple falsified DMCA claims against a single account. I am hoping letting a community outside my niche know about this loophole around Twitter / DMCA law/implementation would help spur Twitter into actually doing something about it. I'm from the art community on Twitter (and a LTT watcher since 2015). I'm a new user and I apologize if this is against the rules / too offtopic. Some accounts have been suspended for months it's not known when / if they will ever return. Yueko has had her counterclaim rejected when even basic levels of investigation by twitter into this should make it very clear it's a DMCA troll. The implementation of these laws is having the opposite effect, and doesn't necessarily only affect artists on Twitter, who can have a significant chunk of their livelihood come from it. Not every account attacked has been suspended, but Twitter support has been completely unhelpful so far, based on what Yueko has to say on her new alt account.Įdit 1: I've been informed by one of the replies that abusing DMCA law isn't new what's particularly frustrating about this is twitter's borderline malicious levels of negligence when handling the counterclaim. I believe this has implications far outside the art community, and directly shows the shortcomings of our dated DMCA laws, which are originally meant to protect creators from bad actors infringing upon the rights to their work. Its just really laughable how low-effort and transparent this whole thing has been but Twitter still allows it to happen and affect artists who depend on their platforms If you know the account, don't give them attention or link it here because that's what they want. Its really hilarious because its likely this is just some lowlife wannabe 'hacker' trying to be edgy- but twitter's system is so broken that it facilitates this. Yueko: The person responsible has admitted to using a bot and made threats ON twitter to myself and 2 other artists affected.
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