On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:07:09PM +0100, Moritz Bartl wrote:
On 12.03.2013 08:41, jvoss@altsci.com wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone receives a large number of DMCA infringement notices and whether there was a resolution.
We do. Given that none of the regular DMCA complaint companies were interested in following up on our reply, we now auto-reply to DMCA complaints coming from a bunch of known addresses.
For some older details and a procmail recipe see https://www.torservers.net/wiki/abuse/dmca
In theory, it's also the case that you don't have to answer them at all. The DMCA takedown requests are sent in error, since they refer to 512(c) and it's actually 512(a) that applies in your case. So the template that Wendy wrote originally was to help you explain to your ISP why this isn't a problem. If your ISP is ok with it, then you could in theory just bitbucket them all.
So in that case, there's no *legal* need to reply to the original spammer at all. But it may still be a good idea practically, depending on what you think they will do if they spam for a while and nobody sends them the requested extortion money.
--Roger