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Ross Ulbricht Threatens LowEndBox. It's Weird

45 pointsby harrelchrisalmost 2 years ago

8 comments

janmoalmost 2 years ago
I run a company logo database website. So far I have received about 5 DMCAs. In all cases those came not from the company itself but by an &quot;authorised agent&quot; such as cscglobal or convey.it<p>They send out notices on a semi automated way I believe, there is some crawler that finds the image&#x2F;logo, then they have someone in India find a contact address and send a DCMA notice.<p>Quite possible freeross uses such a service and is not itself behind the DMCA.
monero-xmralmost 2 years ago
Regardless of your opinion on Ross, the facts of the case are excessively strange:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-ndca&#x2F;pr&#x2F;former-secret-service-agent-sentenced-scheme-related-silk-road-investigation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;usao-ndca&#x2F;pr&#x2F;former-secret-service-a...</a><p>The agent investigating him extorted him for bitcoins! This doesn’t even factor in any of the parallel construction conspiracies.<p>I think he has served enough time. I don’t see why keeping him in jail helps society at this point.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freeross.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;freeross.org&#x2F;</a>
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rberaalmost 2 years ago
Very apt that they used Midjourney to create an uncopyrightable image of him. I wonder how legal that is, but I guess he qualifies as a public figure?
jeffgrecoalmost 2 years ago
Weird is the extremism in the comments there. Pass.
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RandomBKalmost 2 years ago
I&#x27;m very confused - how did LowEndBox get involved at all? I thought it was just a place to promote &amp; discuss cheap VPS hosting, self-hosted software, and other technical topics?
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Synaesthesiaalmost 2 years ago
I know he &quot;attempted to murder people&quot; but that was 100% an FBI sting operation intended to achieve that. Never would have happened if it weren&#x27;t for the feds.
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ineedasernamealmost 2 years ago
This post was flagged? I wonder why. When new posts are [dead] I can at least &quot;vouch&quot; for them but there appears to be no such recourse for [flagged], and it&#x27;s not clear to me why this one would be, excepting that some people seem to have very firm opinions supporting the #freeulbricht narrative, which this post goes against. Unless I&#x27;m reading too much into that? I don&#x27;t know.
eliottealmost 2 years ago
The DMCA is about a photograph. One that shows both Ross AND HIS GIRLFRIEND.<p>How stupid is LowEndBox? Just remove the photograph.
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