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Everyone should contact their investors.

"Your portfolio company @getadmiral is committing fraud by filing false DMCA requests. Can you fix this?"

Birchmere Ventures

Florida Gulfshore Capital

Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research

Mosley Ventures

New World Angels

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/admiral-2#/entity

If they are made aware a portfolio company is committing fraud, hopefully they have enough ethics to help sort out the situation. Not a lawyer, but if the investors are aware of the fraud and do nothing, they may have some liability themselves.




I'm not convinced people that do this wouldn't be making an arse out of themselves. No lawyers have appeared in here to say that anything fraudulent has happened. The DMCA does prohibit dissemination of any software whose purpose is to circumvent technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. If the domain we're talking about is key to such technical measures, then distributing software that blocks it may in fact be illegal under the DMCA, and sending a DMCA notice to take it down ordinary and allowed. "New World Angels" have no power to overturn the law of the land, especially one which is implementation of a broad international treaty.


EasyList is not software. It's just a fracking list. Is it a DCMA violation to state factually, as I am doing now, that functionalclam.com is a so-called "access control" domain?


It would also be great if a list of their customers could be found/generated/etc. That is, if they have any yet.

Seems like one to add to the hosts file forever.




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