yesterday when I got up I found this hilarious message in my inbox, it was sent through the contact form on the site:
please not the hilariously wrong usage of technical terms...IP host...and best: carrier.Name
Amanda Force
force.xxxxxxx@live.ca
Phone
Subject
DMCA
Message
I need to file a DMCA with you, but I require a email to submit it to, either that or I can send it to your IP host. Can you provide me with a contact for your copyright infringement issues please?
If i do not hear back from you in the next 24 hours, i will submit it to your carrier instead.
Thank you, I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Amanda
notice how that person didn't even told what the "complaint" is about. so I checked the logs and followed the pages this person visited on suck-o, she was obviously referred by google to the fetlife article in my blog, then she went to the staff page, to the site rules, to the downloads, and then to the contact form. of course I had her IP at that moment already, so I knew the location is canada. after some googling I found out she is appearing as official fetlife person and files DMCA complaints against sites that post images...of course only if those images are in context with sceptical articles.
the last one she was after was a twitter user, she filed a DMCA complaint at him and twitter took the images off.
the fun point is of course that neither fetlife, nor she, nor suck-o are under US laws. that IT illiterate (but self-proclaimed "media/copyright expert") little girl obviously has too much time at hand....humping activities seem to be pretty low nowadays in the fetish scene, eh? or well, maybe she is simply too boring or ugly or complains all the time about something.
when I knew what the complaint will be about (even before she filed it) I gave her a "complaint" email address to send her silly request to.....then edit the article to be on the 100% safe side (just took the pics off and replaced them with text)...and then wrote ANOTHER article about that incident and published it on the frontpage. a glorious victory for fetlife...instead of 1 blog post there are 2 articles now that will lead EVEN MORE visitors looking for unfiltered info to our site....now not only for info but also for lulz.
thanks a lot Amanda, you made my day!