3.9 KiB
DMCA Takedown Notice & Procedure
"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem." - Gabe Newell
Lainlounge is a FOSS fighting, politically free, censorship free, organization that provides organized and publicly available source codes and more, with the intention of keeping them from being lost over time or through censorship due to the abuse of power by large corporations (see Nintendo, Meta Inc.). Likewise by those who feel attacked in their freedom as developers. Freedom of expression is definitely allowed and will not be CENSORED. Lainlounge does not make a profit via advertisements, subscriptions, donations, or any other means. Thank you for considering the potential benefits of this truly free service as you submit your notice.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement on our website, please provide the following information to Lainlounge's Copyright Agent and acknowledge the following guidelines:
1. A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
2. Identification of where the original copyrighted work is located
3. Identification of where the infringing material is located on our website by providing a maximum of 10 URLs to a direct download and not an information page in the body of an email
4. The full name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address of the copyright owner or an authorized agent
5. A statement by the copyright owner or an authorized agent that upon a good faith belief, the disputed use of the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
6. A statement that under penalty of perjury, the information in the notice is accurate and you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
7. A scanned physical document that proves you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
8. A valid email address such as username@copyrightcompany and not one from free email services (Gmail, Hotmail, iCloud, etc.) to help prove you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
9. An email in plain text (no rich text such as HTML) sent to dmca (at) lainlounge (dot) xyz, sending an email to our ISPs means your notice will not be processed
10. Access to content files, not information pages, may be restricted and for sure not deleted as only content files might or might not violate someone's copyright
11. Personal or attorney notices will not be processed, they must come only from the company.
Lainlounge reserves the right to evaluate the legitimacy of notices received and will ignore and discard notices with invalid, incorrect, or omitted information. Notices may be shared with third parties for transparency purposes.
Note:
All requests that have not been submitted in accordance with the guideline will not be processed. We therefore ask you to fill them in properly and correctly.
And yeah, the whole "piracy is killing the industry" argument has always been a bit of a contradiction. Piracy has actually helped boost exposure for many products, from software to movies and games. Many indie developers and even some larger studios have admitted that piracy has sometimes led to increased legitimate sales because it works like free marketing.
As for Meta torrenting 80TB via their own Network — that's wild. Big companies have been caught pirating before, whether for research, training AI models, or just convenience. Hell, Microsoft employees have been caught pirating movies, and universities have been found using cracked software.
It’s a classic case of “Do as I say, not as I do.” When regular users torrent something, it’s "theft" and "hurting the industry," but when a massive corporation does it, it’s "data acquisition" or "internal testing."