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Fraudulent DMCA request filed to censor pizzagate research
### Researchers <a href="https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1690808">on voat</a> have discovered a <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/13959495">dodgy DMCA takedown request</a> !

You can verify this for yourself by <a href="https://www.google.com.au/?q=%22https:%2F%2Fvoat.co%2Fv%2Fpizzagate%2F%22"> googling</a> `https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/` and checking the <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/13959495">link</a> at the bottom of the page .

<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXzfSNGb5iBYxMXgVbPJJRoZcCMeanRx692xa7KieDFWT/image.png)<br />![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmRbLrTzArGxaB82ErRgnjv4mSJtpqCAX9dL8xqMaU9Fd5/image.png)</center>


It's not very effective because it only covers that one specific url instead of the entire site - but it looks to me like **a clear abuse of the DMCA system**.

<a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/13959495">According to lumendatabase.org</a> this request was sent by <a href="http://www.removeyourmedia.com">Remove Your Media LLC</a> on behalf of <a href="http://www.japancreativecontentsalliance.com/">Japan Creative Contents Alliance LLC</a> on March 1st, 2017. 

<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfVkVJrKmQTTdrRT1SohzABM45ETRcRTFQpV2KzeaUuwK/image.png)</center>

The specific complaint is listed as Copyright claim #21 of 87 total, with this description :

> The original works are copyrighted anime television broadcasts and dvd releases by the Japan Creative Contents Alliance LLC. Pursuant to 17 USC sec. 512(c)(3)(A)(ii) the official website for 'GATE' includes a representative list at the below url: 


<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPokhYnbnNBo2D8Bq4Kq1gyUTS1EnzhyuW1tFnAvA41PW/image.png)<br />![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbNXpKSqtGDSYjWq8qNTbGzcUdthq51JXGmfENq5Kpzbh/image.png)</center>

The voat url is at number 297 in the middle of a massive list of otherwise seemingly legitimate copyright claims .

<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPv1peBGF2ghevwNFNwJXYZKUdUSVNkc6MZ727UfKTXFU/image.png)</center>

Remove Your Media LLC is owned by a partner at a Texas patent/copyright troll law firm, who appears to have attended the DNC. 

They own several other services besides "<a href="http://www.removeyourmedia.com">Remove Your Media, LLC</a>" with names such as "<a href="http://removeyourcontent.com/">Removeyourcontent, LLC</a>" and "Copyright Defense Agency, LLC" .

The owner of the law firm, <a href="http://stonevaughanlaw.com/">Stone & Vaughan</a>, also has a long history of being involved with distribution of pornography. In a public example, <a href="http://lawvibe.com/evan-stones-battle-against-gay-porn-movie-piracy-on-torrent-sites/">Evan Stone partnered with several adult production companies (gay porn specifically) to collect data to sue downloaders and split the profits</a>

<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmP8tsLASoP9upS3QJQQvxCgnSu1UpRnDKaeMa5vco1yrX/image.png)<br />The logo mentioned in <a href="http://lawvibe.com/evan-stones-battle-against-gay-porn-movie-piracy-on-torrent-sites/">the article</a> pictured above : <br />![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQcBDRV4gBbz1HyEScxz8P8ZFDCrJBbFtu5dLX1suktP4/image.png)<br />And the East India Trading Company crest for comparison<br />![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaPn7ATYqNjM254LQDqgtfFUuXfAMtqfta6idx6H4qrSg/image.png)</center>

<a href="https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Irving/eric-green/38959859.aspx">Corporationwiki</a> also lists an <a href="https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Irving/eric-green/38959859.aspx">Eric Green</a> as a key figure between all of these companies :

<center><a href="https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Irving/eric-green/38959859.aspx">![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdQ9fQbRA8wgeo1LNs1voSNsy7gh9p4QrrcuSJgQmkHXz/image.png)<br />![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWBjcBnsmtZDx72JkPVtmgGQPfZ8qe6ihTJBgaYrSHUFN/image.png)<br />![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUGMepWpbso7JDCJJuFYz5XBbiEu1jQvKnawzYjWVoUBw/image.png)</a></center>

**I'm sure <a href="http://www.japancreativecontentsalliance.com/">Japan Creative Contents Alliance</a> would be pretty pissed off to have their name associated with this fraudulent DMCA takedown request.**

I've contacted them for their comments - I suspect they are innocent and are being used by the law firm for their own political agenda.

<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPDysknUBaAoGA5gSKqLrgHGWqFW7LmoLQp9mZD3L6buD/image.png)</center>

**Update:** The email listed on the Japan Creative Contents Alliance is bouncing, the domain is gone, I've sent it to 	`info@japancreativecontentsalliance.com` instead with no bounce (yet)  :
<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUHmX17vqFgJs6NQZ1D4B93EQ9oADMamuHcsYXXU9uvKq/image.png)</center>

**Update 2:** This isn't the first time Japan Creative Contents Alliance have <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PVzZ40gSDBMJ:anime.frikafrax.com/2015/10-3255/remove-your-media-llc-uses-inaccurate-evidence.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au">submitted fraudulent DMCA requests</a> , and they currently have 267,046 results <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/faceted_search?principal_name=Japan+Creative+Contents+Alliance+LLC">on lumendatabase</a> . 

For comparison Remove Your Media LLC has  <a href="https://www.lumendatabase.org/faceted_search?sender_name=Remove+Your+Media+LLC">221,217 results on lumendatabase</a> ..

Google also publishes their own transparency reports, but unfortunately they don't list the specific url's blocked. 
<a href="https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/searchdata/domains/?id=voat.co">Remove Your Media LLC is the most frequent reporting organization for the voat.co domain</a> according to Google .

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@heroic15397 · 
I thought the mercenaries were the ones who became the pirates when they were left without a ''for king and country'' job. In a similar way, the Hells Angels MC was born out of WWII veterans. Seems like I was wrong about HAMC (according to the history on their web site) since Arvid Olsen would have been the only tie between the military and the bike club, so I assume I must also be mistaken about the seafaring pirates timeline and development.

http://affa.hells-angels.com/hamc-history/

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Ironic that the Copyright Defense Agency, LLC would incorporate into its logo an almost exact copy of the East India Trading Company crest.

Seems like the Copyright Defense Agency, LLC could have made it an habit to copy from others:

''*...that yet another new pre-settlement lawsuit factory, going by the name of the Copyright Defense Agency, appears to have created a very, very similar website to that of the Copyright Enforcement Agency...*''

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?company=copyright+defense+agency
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@j3dy · 
Nice research I would like to know where you got those nice cards from but don't tell me :D So it seems they can be sued if the east india trading company was still around. They seem like a shady asshole kind of a "firm" servicing some shady businesses, It would be nice to remove those people from any power, much like the blacklist here :D, so I hope the cheetah pride gets to him :) it seems a lot of bullshit is being thrown around as always, Pewdie being a nazi and all :D getting called out by the Wall Street Journal no less, shame on them ad shame on anybody taking their time to produce those shit and distribute, shame on all those copyright paywalls, if they are used to censure media and content in general, shame on all that bullshit people keep tuning into, instead of producing something with real value, trying to blackmail people, shame on all those involved, I don't care if they are people too, fuck them, they have no morals, therefore no respect i required to be given to such shameless individuals, 

AAANYWAYS :D sorry for the ranting here Cheers mate, screw those assholes, they will die out anyway, they aren't needed to push force and extort people, don't give them an inch. I would like Google to have that kind of a policy, but yeah :|
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