Re: DMCA madness from NBC/Universal...??

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

We got 23 of them between 7 and 10 pm - all from May 3 through May 10 - and your question is rhetorical I assume :-)

Thanks,
Joel Rosenblatt

--On Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:17 PM -0400 John Lupton <lupton () ISC UPENN EDU> wrote:

> Last evening we received a raft of DMCA takedown notices from NBC/Universal.
> Virtually all of them contained claimed infringement dates/times going back
> to May 4 - 19, i.e., pretty old. More than that, though, there were numerous
> instances where the same complaint was sent as many as three times, so for
> example, what appears to be 40 complaints actually pares down to 15 or so.
>
> Just our good luck, or is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Do these people actually know what they're doing?
>
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> John T. Lupton      Sr. Information Security Specialist
> University of Pennsylvania/Information Systems & Computing
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
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Joel Rosenblatt, Manager Network & Computer Security
Columbia Information Security Office (CISO)
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