WordPress.com is disingenuous and supportive of blatant copyright theft
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They will tell you in the forums that they can’t discuss DMCA issues because those have to be sent via an official DMCA takedown notice. But as of late, WordPress.com has been woefully deficient in carrying out their duties according to the Article 17 of the U.S. Code. I have recently filed a total of 54 legitimate DMCA takedown demands against one WordPress.com blog. This was weeks ago, and I am still awaiting a response. This individual BRAGS in his posts about taking items from a blog I had to close down because of this person’s constant thievery. WordPress.com does nothing, and therefore loses its “safe harbor” provision.
I quote the WordPress.com Terms of Service.
“…the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;”
Does this seem to anyone else like it might just be pornographic, obscene and violate MY privacy and publicity rights?
This is from another WordPress.com blog I’ve reported.
“Old and crazy, fat and demented, Bill (My Actual Last Name) sat at his curbside reject card table, wishing he could rub two dimes together and find an old desk at a yard sale. But who would help him haul it home? (My wife’s actual name)? She was rarely home anymore. She spent her nights wandering the streets of (My actual town), desperate to get out of the house, out from under his hateful eye. Away from the unrelenting stink of old diapers and sweating feet. She spent the days sleeping off the nights. With the dogs. He stared at a blank page, considering his next post.”
This blogger thinks the fact that I have Parkinson’s disease and a dead twin brother is just HILARIOUS!
“What’s happened to me? God damn it, I’m relevant. Relevant!” He shook a fist at the ceiling, splattering mayonnaise on his monitor.
He absently wiped the stain from his monitor and licked the creamy goo off his finger. He liked creamy, gooey things. For no particular reason, he thought of his lost brother Bob.
Oh, God, Bob, he thought, still sucking his finger clean. I miss you so.
He sat back and closed his eyes, remembering fondly the many years of sharing a bedroom with the Bobber. The playful teasing and wrestling that almost always ended up with grunts and moans, communicating brotherly love in the special language that only identical twins knew.
THIS is acceptable content, according to WordPress.com.
(My wife’s actual name) slammed the door and shambled back to the bedroom like a flatulent zombie. She would probably pass out without getting undressed. He hoped she didn’t piss the bed again and force another costly trip to Goodwill. He desperately wished this shitty little shack had a second bedroom he could move into. But no, they couldn’t afford more than this single-wide on his paltry disability payments and government pension.
No, there is nothing at all wrong with this material being supported by the “free speech” lovers at WordPress.com.
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Cat | Community Guardian | WordPress.comSo, one WordPress.com user is stealing my content, another is libeling me and my wife. And WordPress.com/Automattic is just FINE with that.
My advice? If you can’t afford a self-hosted blog? Use Blogger or somewhere that your copyright and privacy will be protected and respected. WordPress.com used to do that. Not any more.
I am involved in a lawsuit in US District Court with these two bloggers. Since WordPress.com seems willing to abandon their “Safe Harbor” protection to protect these two individuals, they will have no problem being added as co-defendants.
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The fact that someone is mean to you does not make it a ToS violation. You have all the information you need to deal with staff, so do it. Posting in the forum does nothing more than tie those insults tighter to your identity in Google searches.
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If you own a copyright to any material that appears on a site hosted by WordPress.com, you may file a DMCA notice, and the site owner will be required to either remove the content or file a counter notice, in which case the claim will be resolved in court.
To file a DMCA notice, please see:
http://automattic.com/dmca/If you disagree with the content on another site or find it offensive, however, that is not the same as a copyright claim, and may require a court order.
Because we will not discuss specific Terms of Service and legal matters in the public forums, I will be closing this thread to further discussion.
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