From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
On 7/12/25 2:46 AM, Peter H. Wendt wrote:
Am 12.07.2025 um 00:32 schrieb Kevin Bowling:
IBM has some idiots sending DMCA takedowns to my ISP and separately
are trying to claim trademark on my domain name.
Regards,
Kevin
Had that occasionally.
They're not from IBM but from some outworldly spammers i.e. from north korea, ruzzia or chinese origin to blackmail domain owners. Just ignore them. If the ISP is aware of that, nothing will ever happen.
On my IP they send them fake, threading mails that they are now the new owners of mcamafia and he has to put down my content or pay fines in the thousands of dollars.
He informed me and just laughed about them.
This was real. In house council too which seems like an odd use of
personnel.
They seemed to be blindly but relentlessly following some software that
was triggering on the string "IBM Confidential" -- the files in question
were from IBM's official public FTP server and not particularly
interesting so the whole thing is an exercise in busywork. But they
have not followed up after removing a handful of files so hopefully it
is done.
The chilling part of this is, the DMCA or at least my network provider
seems to require 24 hour removal before the provider will start cutting
off service. That seems extra-judicial if, for instance, I needed to
retain council to fight off an invalid report. For some historical
reasons (past business venture), the site happens to be hosted like a
small ISP on a multi-carrier network in a high end commercial data
center so some nefarious or incompetent threat actor could take out an
entire network with this legal framework unless you can seemingly hot
potato responsibility downward and isolate to a single URI.
Regards,
Kevin Bowling
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