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Crypto Company Issues DMCA Takedown Against Critics of Its Products

Chilling Effects Team, November 21, 2013

Abstract: As regular visitors may recall, we spent some time this summer investigating notices in our database that referenced trademark claims, but also defamation, or that seemed to be defamation claims cloaked as trademark claims.

Ongoing research in that vein turned up this notice that we have in our database courtesy of the folks at Stack Overflow, who received it from a company called CipherCloud, regarding this material on Stack Exchange.

The Stack Exchange community discussed the notice here, the Hacker News community had a fascinating discussion about it here, and WIRED covered the controversy.

All well worth a look, especially if you're interested in ways in which the DMCA and other takedown request paradigms are affecting online discourse.

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