Lumen Database
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Lumen is an independent research project studying takedown notices along with other legal removal requests and demands concerning online content. We collect and analyze requests to OSPs to remove material from their services. lumendatabase.org
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Stray Kids Label Hits Music Distributor With DMCA Subpoena Over Bootleg Track * TorrentFreak
Stray Kids is one of the biggest bands in today's music industry and a solo track from member Han needed just days to go from YouTube exclusive to bootleg releases on Apple Music and TikTok.
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www.techdirt.com/2026/09/04/t...
Take-Two’s Leak Burying DMCA Attempts Snared GameStop & Gaming Journalist That Did Nothing Wrong
I have mostly stayed away from the whole saga surrounding the drip-drip leaks of Grand Theft Auto 6 content prior to the big reveal on Netflix because, frankly, I am quite wary of giving companies the kind of guerilla marketing wins that sometimes look like this sort of thing. That being said, I really don't...
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A federal court ruled that a copyright holder can send a DMCA takedown notice based on their belief that speech is infringing—even when that belief is unreasonable. We think that sets the bar far too low, and we will appeal this ruling. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case—EFF
A federal court in Massachusetts has ruled that copyright holders can issue online takedown notices based on a subjective belief of copyright infringement, even when that belief is unreasonable and
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Collaborators Using the 'Instagram Collabs' Feature May Forego a Section 230 Defense-Winer v. Mohammed - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
[I have so many Section 230 cases backlogged in my blogging queue, but this one is jumping the queue because of its comparative novelty.] This is a defamation case between a professor and a student in...
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Belgian Orders Demand Pirate Site Operators' Bank Details, Crypto Wallets and Server Logs * TorrentFreak
Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains. This week the government's anti-piracy department expanded its effort, ordering domain registrars and a registry ...
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www.techdirt.com/2026/08/31/w...
Would The Next George Floyd Video Survive Meta’s New Teen Safety Rules?
Earlier this year, one of the smartest internet rights people around, Heather Burns, suggested the "Darnella Test" regarding any kind of "kid safety" rule online. It's named after Darnella Frazier. You might not recognize her name, but you've seen her work. She was the 17-year-old who was walking to the corner shop when she happened...
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The risk of being doxxed is top of mind for many movement workers. Learn what you can do to care for your digital footprint without compromising your work.
Doxxing Safety Pt I: Prevention and Footprint Management
Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk ...
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"Russia has hit printing presses and publishing houses across Ukraine in a series of recent attacks, destroying 12 million books and damaging other icons of Ukrainian history and culture." www.bbc.com/news/article... #Books #Russia #Ukraine
Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year
Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.
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ChatGPT and other AI chatbots have become less likely to encourage suicidal thoughts but will still engage in potentially harmful conversations and reinforce apparently delusional behavior, a new study found.
Chatbots got safer but will still role-play self-harm with users
A study that staged more than 50,000 conversations with AI chatbots found that they will help users role-play or write stories about their suicide or death.
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Décision n° 2026-911 DC du 14 août 2026 - Communiqué de presse
Statuant sur deux saisines parlementaires, le Conseil constitutionnel censure l’article 1er de la loi qui prévoyait d’interdire l’accès des mineurs de moins de 15 ans aux services de réseaux sociaux e...
conseil-constitutionnel.fr
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/nyregion/rebel-wilson-the-deb-producer-amanda-ghost.html
Court Documents Suggest Rebel Wilson Ordered Websites Attacking Producer
New documents filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles appear to show that Ms. Wilson, the actress, was heavily involved in disparaging Amanda Ghost, a producer on her movie, “The Deb.”
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From EFF Senior Counsel @davidgreene.bsky.social: “Young users will now have less access to Meta products, and a lesser ability to exercise their rights to speak, access information and art and culture, associate and form communities, and play. (1/4)
Hello, all. We just got word from another local paper that some of their articles have been targeted by spurious DMCA notices If you know someone in a smaller scale new org, it might be worth having them check Lumen to see if any of their work has been the target of search de-indexing requests.
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Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news
Australia passed legislation on Thursday that will force tech giants to pay millions of dollars in levies if they fail to strike commercial deals with local media outlets for news on their platforms...
reuters.com
You can find these notices, sent to Github by Nintendo on and received by Lumen on August 19th, 2026, on Lumen. torrentfreak.com/nintendo-wip... lumendatabase.org/notices/sear...
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep * TorrentFreak
Nintendo has filed seven DMCA anti-circumvention notices at GitHub in a single day, wiping out more than 400 Switch emulator repos.
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Lumen confirms that it was Amnesty International that sent the DMCA strike. I will be contesting it as this document is a matter of public debate and abusing copyright in this manner to censor it is absolutely disgusting. What complete cowards.
