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A German music company has attempted to claim copyright on some of the world’s most popular downloads, including Skype, AMD drivers, Linux and many more.

 

Total Wipes Music Group, attempted to target some of the biggest companies around.
In an effort to ‘protect’ the album “In To The Wild- Vol 7″, Total Wipes sent one massive DMCA takedown notice to Google, covering a total of 95 URLs, none of which have anything to do with music. Each URL just appears to be a download page for widely popular software and services.
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ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING URLS:

http://www.oovoo.com/download
http://www.icq.com/download/
https://www.archlinux.org/download/
http://www.yiiframework.com/download/
https://access.redhat.com/downloads
http://www.abisource.com/download/
http://nmap.org/download.html
http://www.opencart.com/?route=download/download
http://typo3.org/download
http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
http://www.vuze.com/download.php
http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
https://www.winehq.org/download/
http://www.geogebra.org/download
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/
http://calibre-ebook.com/download
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
http://kodi.tv/download/
https://poedit.net/download
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/
https://java.com/download
http://www.phoca.cz/phocadownload
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
http://www.openoffice.org/download/
https://eclipse.org/downloads/
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
https://www.python.org/downloads/
http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/
http://www.joomla.org/download.html
https://netbeans.org/downloads/
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
http://unity3d.com/unity/download
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/
http://git-scm.com/downloads
http://www.sketchup.com/download
https://www.pidgin.im/download/
http://www.postgresql.org/download/
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
https://www.mongodb.org/downloads
http://nodejs.org/download/
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads
https://processing.org/download/
http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/complete
http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
https://www.whatsapp.com/download/
http://keepass.info/download.html
https://inkscape.org/download/
https://evernote.com/download/
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
http://free.avg.com/free-antivirus-download
http://www.mono-project.com/download/
https://www.origin.com/en-us/download
http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/download.html
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php
http://nginx.org/en/download.html
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
http://www.tinymce.com/download/download.php
https://plex.tv/downloads
https://www.phpbb.com/downloads/
https://www.kali.org/downloads/
http://www.xmind.net/download/
https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
https://www.zotero.org/download/
https://www.djangoproject.com/download/
http://filehippo.com/en/
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html
http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/
http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
https://www.gnupg.org/download/
http://framework.zend.com/downloads/latest
https://lastpass.com/misc_download.php
http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads
http://www.oscommerce.com/Products
https://www.wireshark.org/download.html
http://ckeditor.com/download
https://tails.boum.org/download/
http://www.coreftp.com/download.html
https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html
https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client
https://www.dropbox.com/downloading
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
http://www.opera.com/download


 
The takedown notice itself claims that Total Wipes Music Group has an exclusive and worldwide deal for distributing all content found on the list. The main point to take away from this is that the DMCA system is often abused and there are rarely any consequences. There either needs to be an entirely new system implemented or companies need to start being held accountable for false claims.

 

 


What is worrying is that Total Wipes Music Group doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon, TorrentFreak had a dig around and found that the company is filing multiple notices almost every single day. Google does reject most of them but something may end up slipping through the cracks eventually.

 

source:

http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/music-company-attempts-to-dmca-skype-amd-and-93-other-downloads/

 

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10416081#

 

 

Total wipes affected album :

http://www.totalwipesmusicgroup.com/releases/aborigeno-music/abmu021_wild-vol7

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What could you possibly have to gain from doing this? The claims aren't going to go through and it's a big waste of time.

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So many pieces of vital software that I use on daily basis or have used in the past working as a Sysadmin. Like...really? Like, are you SERIOUSLY expecting Google to actually block those URL's?

And let's just say, hypothetically, what if Google does this. They block all of those URL's. What do you think WhatsApp (Facebook), FileZilla, Ubuntu, Zend, VmWare, Dropbox, etc is going to do? Just sit at their desks twiddeling their tumbs goin 'Oh well, we had a nice run here', or do you expect them to sue Google and your own arse because you have just single handedly destroyed entire companies (might be a bit of an overstatement, but I'm sure a couple of the smaller guys might miss some serious revenue streams).

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Do they have no shame?

'Make sure to wear a wool sweater and to stand on a carpet while working on PC's' -Linus 2015

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I think this comment infringes copyright too they might take it down.

This is why SOPA/PIPA/ACTA were shot down,all these parasyte claims would have completely ruined the internet and would have been a mess for a long time until laws got reworked.

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A German music company has attempted to claim copyright on some of the world’s most popular downloads, including Skype, AMD drivers, Linux and many more.

 

Total Wipes Music Group, attempted to target some of the biggest companies around.

In an effort to ‘protect’ the album “In To The Wild- Vol 7″, Total Wipes sent one massive DMCA takedown notice to Google, covering a total of 95 URLs, none of which have anything to do with music. Each URL just appears to be a download page for widely popular software and services.

DMCA-e1424709946298.jpg

ALLEGEDLY INFRINGING URLS:

http://www.oovoo.com/download

http://www.icq.com/download/

https://www.archlinux.org/download/

http://www.yiiframework.com/download/

https://access.redhat.com/downloads

http://www.abisource.com/download/

http://nmap.org/download.html

http://www.opencart.com/?route=download/download

http://typo3.org/download

http://www.sqlite.org/download.html

http://www.vuze.com/download.php

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

https://www.winehq.org/download/

http://www.geogebra.org/download

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/

http://calibre-ebook.com/download

http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download

http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

http://kodi.tv/download/

https://poedit.net/download

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/

https://java.com/download

http://www.phoca.cz/phocadownload

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

http://www.openoffice.org/download/

https://eclipse.org/downloads/

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

https://www.python.org/downloads/

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/

http://www.joomla.org/download.html

https://netbeans.org/downloads/

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

http://unity3d.com/unity/download

http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

https://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/

http://git-scm.com/downloads

http://www.sketchup.com/download

https://www.pidgin.im/download/

http://www.postgresql.org/download/

http://www.libreoffice.org/download

https://www.mongodb.org/downloads

http://nodejs.org/download/

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads

https://processing.org/download/

http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/complete

http://winscp.net/eng/download.php

https://www.whatsapp.com/download/

http://keepass.info/download.html

https://inkscape.org/download/

https://evernote.com/download/

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

http://free.avg.com/free-antivirus-download

http://www.mono-project.com/download/

https://www.origin.com/en-us/download

http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/download.html

https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php

http://nginx.org/en/download.html

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

http://www.tinymce.com/download/download.php

https://plex.tv/downloads

https://www.phpbb.com/downloads/

https://www.kali.org/downloads/

http://www.xmind.net/download/

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

https://www.zotero.org/download/

https://www.djangoproject.com/download/

http://filehippo.com/en/

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html

http://www.techsmith.com/download/jing/

http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

https://www.gnupg.org/download/

http://framework.zend.com/downloads/latest

https://lastpass.com/misc_download.php

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads

http://www.oscommerce.com/Products

https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

http://ckeditor.com/download

https://tails.boum.org/download/

http://www.coreftp.com/download.html

https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

https://www.dropbox.com/downloading

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

http://www.opera.com/download

 

 

 

source:

http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/music-company-attempts-to-dmca-skype-amd-and-93-other-downloads/

 

https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10416081#

 

 

Total wipes affected album :

http://www.totalwipesmusicgroup.com/releases/aborigeno-music/abmu021_wild-vol7

Leave it to the Music industry to always try to get their way.

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They want to be recognized. 

 

Only way you get recognized by Westerners is to be a odd Korean with silly words and a silly dance. 

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I bet most these companies who got served are like:

 42eaaead5c38a7afc760be704b8c27208848a48f

"Same rules since the first man picked up the first stick and beat the second man's ass with it."

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Seems to be a somewhat typical thing for the German music industry. They always have strange ideas. For example the whole stupidness between Google/YouTube and the rights organisation "GEMA". Most music videos are blocked and you cannot even watch livestreams on YouTube D:

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w8 wut..?

 

Apart from it being a publicity stunt, I don't understand what this has to do with their shitty album, "In To The Wild- Vol 7". 

 

Can somebody further dumbify this for me?

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So basically, they claimed copyright on every URL with "download" in it without even checking what the pages contain?

 

There's stupid, and then there's this.

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Well, the music industry was the hardest hit by the internet.  Something like a 40% drop in cd revenue since the first MP3 sharing site came online.  What this actually equates to in real world dollars/business is probably not that well understood, but you can bet your arse it's a good portion of the reason we now have fewer record labels and a lot more manufactured bands/radio playlists.

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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Geogebra? rly?

IKR, one of the maths teachers at my school is the founder and lead Developer of Geogebra

Really though, who would do this?

It is like a five year old telling his parents to sue the first 95 companies and websites he sees on google 

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So many pieces of vital software that I use on daily basis or have used in the past working as a Sysadmin. Like...really? Like, are you SERIOUSLY expecting Google to actually block those URL's?

And let's just say, hypothetically, what if Google does this. They block all of those URL's. What do you think WhatsApp (Facebook), FileZilla, Ubuntu, Zend, VmWare, Dropbox, etc is going to do? Just sit at their desks twiddeling their tumbs goin 'Oh well, we had a nice run here', or do you expect them to sue Google and your own arse because you have just single handedly destroyed entire companies (might be a bit of an overstatement, but I'm sure a couple of the smaller guys might miss some serious revenue streams).

Google is a private company and can block anything it wants from its own search engine.

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they really are as***les, what a dumb move

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I'm not copying helping, really :P

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why copyright is broken in a nutshell

this is one of the greatest thing that has happened to me recently, and it happened on this forum, those involved have my eternal gratitude http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/198850-update-alex-got-his-moto-g2-lets-get-a-moto-g-for-alexgoeshigh-unofficial/ :')

i use to have the second best link in the world here, but it died ;_; its a 404 now but it will always be here

 

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why copyright is broken in a nutshell

Actually I think you'll find the opposite to be true,  this is the retaliation to broken copyright.

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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There should be some kind of punishment or concequences if they are wrong, fines, prevention from legal action etc.

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Yeah, go look through the code in those AMD drivers, I am sure your songs are hidden in it.

 

 

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