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<div>You’re incorrect about the DMCA when you say “DMCA treats ‘linking’ to illegal contents as illegal as the contents themselves”. You must
<i>knowingly link to works that clearly infringe somebody’s copyright</i>. A link to the Israel.TV websites themselves is not to a specific work, so it’s not covered by DMCA. So first, as long as you don’t know that a work is infringing someone’s copyright,
then you cannot be held liable for contributor infringement for directing users to that work. But, over and above that requirement, a link that doesn’t go directly to a specific work, but just a website in general (as the judgement declares “shall block access
to the website”) is completely out of the bounds of DMCA. </div>
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<div>Nevertheless, this is still a court order, and presumably carries the full force of the court despite its ridiculous nature. It has the potential to force innocent parties to spend a ton of money defending themselves against red herrings and straw men.
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<div dir="ltr">-mel via cell</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On May 8, 2022, at 8:22 AM, Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span>Mel Beckman wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>But the phrase "or linking to the domain" Includes hundreds, possibly</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>thousands, of unwitting certain parties:</span><br>
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<span>DMCA treats "linking" to illegal contents as illegal as the</span><br>
<span>contents themselves, which is why I wrote:</span><br>
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<span>: In addition, it seems to me that name server operators "having</span><br>
<span>: actual knowledge" that some domain names are used for copyright</span><br>
<span>: infringements are not be protected by DMCA.</span><br>
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<span>> I think I am simply right.</span><br>
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<span>So, you know nothing about DMCA. Read it.</span><br>
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<span>> The lawsuit is contradictory and overreaching.</span><br>
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<span>As for transit ISPs enjoying a safe harbor of DMCA, yes, as I</span><br>
<span>already said so.</span><br>
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<span> Masataka Ohta</span><br>
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