If it is this person, I certainly hope it’s not being done with her knowledge. The things you mentioned aside, her content makes it pretty clear she shares a few pop culture interests with folks who frequent the site… or at least knows how to pander to that audience. I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt and believe its genuine interest however.
what do you expect from nerds?
thats okay; we all know what you really are, nerd!
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doesnt matter; the whole goal is to find only the one artemis via google, even if its just for a few days, before the whole scam blows.
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Which makes more sense - it suggests they’re (ostensibly) targeting porn sites that are stealing content, but in reality are just doing blind searches for the name and automatically filing DMCAs on everything that returns a result for the name, with no human oversight. Which is completely insane given the name, and utterly lazy. Slightly less dishonest than I thought, but much more incompetent.
I would bet on this - and with no humans actually checking the results. It’s not a mistake that would be done honestly. No doubt these people are hugely incompetent scammers with the dumbest possible automated process doing stupidly basic searches (e.g. “artemis.jpeg”) and assuming the results will be meaningful.
Sure, why not - there are clearly no penalties for doing crap like this. Do it enough times and maybe people will start pushing back. (And hey, I’m sure musicians Zola Jesus, MC 900-foot Jesus, Jesus Jones, etc. have plenty of their music being pirated, as well as all the songs and movies titled “Jesus,” so…)
If that was truly the intent, I’d actually sort of admire the insane ambition (it’s almost art!), but I suspect they don’t even really have a “goal,” per se. I suspect it’s more a process that went out of control because whoever provides the service is a lazy, incompetent scammer.
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But I do hope it’s the one who boasts that “my asshole resembles the eye of Sauron” and who has a patron tier named “My Sarlacc Pit.” At least then we can take solace in the Artemis brand being put to good use by its intellectual proprietor.
Oh Rob, thanks for this.
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Yeah, the software is obviously searching on the name, and firing that boilerplate. Why? Because it works.
Google could smarten up their system a little. The URLs provided aren’t for images and videos, but the URLs have to be specific to the violating content. However, making systems a little smarter is a lot of work, and the abusers will just tweak their complaints until they get past that check.
Being in Canada, they may feel that they’re judgement-resistant. I wonder if they even have a lawyer who can launch a DMCA case in an American court?
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Or it’s really just for search engine ranking. It’s easy to be the top result for Artemis if all the other pages have been taken down.
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I guess so? to lazy and/or stupid to even know that there may be an artemis-program by nasa? and they seem out of control, thats for sure;
DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc., on the other hand, is listed under at least 60 accounts in Google’s transparency report, with most accounts sending between 1,000 and 4,500 takedown notices each. The main account for the company has sent massively more; over 51.6 million URLs requested for removal, across 58,431 domains, on behalf of 7,179 copyright holders.
e/
basically what I was saying, same effect, yep.
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Is there any judgement that reasonably could be made against them? I’m not aware of a single false DMCA complaint, even when overtly fraudulent, ever being prosecuted for perjury. (In fact I read something that claimed the US law was sloppily written such that the “under penalty of perjury” bit doesn’t actually apply to anything.) Civil cases in response to dishonest takedowns seem pretty rare too, and if Microsoft et al. get their listings restored without these scammers issuing further takedown notices, would there even be a basis for a civil suit (much less would it be worthwhile to do so)?
Is that really feasible, for such a commonly used name? It would be crazy ambitious for some hole-in-the-wall outfit being funded by an unknown “adult” model who likely is just worried about porn sites stealing her Onlyfans content.
Probably ultimately, simply not caring who else gets hit in their shotgun approach. They can use the dumbest possible algorithms for this because they know there aren’t any consequences for false claims. (I wondered if their usual clients having less broadly-used names might have made them sloppy, but probably not - it makes no difference to them if they overreach by a dozen websites or millions.)
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And if I’d been reading down the thread, rather than non-sequential replies, I would have read your post first before replying. It happens on busy threads and isn’t meant as a slight. 
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I once had original artwork for my webcomic “The Drake Equation” removed from Society6 because it infringed on the singer Drake’s trademarked name. There was no appeal process. I was so mad. I still can’t stand his music.
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Do it just before Ascension day, for maximum attention.
Jesus taken down at the Feast of the Ascension
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Takes one to know one!
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Across the board, Google really seems to be on a faster track to enshitification lately.
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Given the overlap between MAGA, flat Earthers, and moon landing deniers, are we sure this isn’t some sort of calculated political attack on NASA?
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‘"People are going to get on our case again for this…’ stated Metallica’s Lars Ulrich."
Yeah Lars, of course we are. These fucking guys.
Wait a minute! Poe got me
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There needs to be some sort of penalty for filing bullshit claims, the way we have antiSLAPP laws for bullshit lawsuits.
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re: “sarlacc pit” - insert Wilhelm Scream here
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