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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Bad faith actors weaponized DMCA takedowns and censored a prominent crypto critic - Mashable

Nefarious actors have long weaponized systems put in place to protect creators' original work. When filing fake copyright takedowns, these parties have the power to claim, monetize, or remove content that they have no rights to. YouTubers, musicians, digital artists – they're all quite familiar with content ID strikes, copyright infringement notices, and other similar bad faith takedowns of their work on internet platforms.
But writers, reporters, and journalists: Are you aware that this can happen to you too? One cryptocurrency muckraker learned this the hard way when fake DMCA takedown requests took down his entire body of work and put a spotlight on the failings of online copyright protection.
Dirty Bubble Media, a newsletter hosted on the writing platform Substack, has been covering the shadiest aspects of the crypto industry since the beginning of 2020. Under the pseudonym Mike Burgersburg, the newsletter's author has been on top of some of this year's biggest stories in the...



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