The Copyright Wall-Of-Shame

Reminder for all that 9 out of 10 times, the people who make a shitstorm about
morality and ethics are the same people who don't abide by them and actually do
worse things.

This number increases to 10/10 with anti-pirate collectives as they have been
observed and proven in these past few years of:
67. The Premier League carelessly making attempts to remove Facebook.com from
Google search on the accusations of facilitating the infringement of their intellectual
property, which should give grave concern over the recent Notice-&-Staydown
proposals.
66. The AEPI being caught swindling over 42.5 million euros from artists while top
executives payed themselves over nearly five million euros between them. After
receiving a fine of 35 million euros, 7.5 million euros is left uncounted and leaving
the orchestrator's of such schemes unaccountable.
65. The BPI having to dismiss PIPCU's Management Board member David Wood
(who played a key role in Operation Creative) on the grounds of gross
misappropriation of funds and referring him to the Metropolitan Police only to file for
bankruptcy after years of excessive financial influence, which further illustrating
that those with positions of power typically commit the most severe crimes.
64. USTR Special 301 Report singling out countries, regardless of the country's
numerous intellectual property enforcement measures. Leaving Canada little choice
but to disregard the list, describing it as "little more than a lobbying document and
the content largely reflects biased submissions from lobby groups."
63. PIPCU facilitating the arrest of Callum Haywood & the seizure of his censorship
circumvention proxies only to have his charges dismissed two years later due to
conflicting arguments by the prosecution. (Illustrating that PIPCU and other law
enforcements agencies are willing to cause real harm while operating on the sole
interests of their donors regardless of any technological legality or relevant
innocence.)
62. Google having to submit a formal report to the U.S. Copyright Office which
explained that 99.95% of the DMCA notices Google received in one month were
bogus and didn't reference any valid links. Which illustrates rightsholders lack of
respect for the DMCA take-down systems that copyright advocates constantly label
ineffective, while demonstrating that any tool granted will be ineffective due to the
incompetence of the user.
61. A Seattle District Court judge Ricardo Martinez, having to introduce a newly
conceived method of handing the default judgments demands of copyright
advocates by splitting the minimal allowed sum between all accused parties which
resulting in a fine of a few hundred instead of the thousands that rightsholder
demand as their compensation for loss.
60. The creators of Denuvo, carelessly securing their website resulting in an
intelligence leak while advocating how secure their anti-tamper technology is.
59. French tax authorities accusing VideoLAN of having financial ties to a torrent
website named Torrent9, on the basis that the torrent site's help section offering a
link and recommendations to VideoLAN's VLC Media Player. While the accusation
was later retracted due to public protest, the act highlights the misconceived
ideology of those who have enforcement powers.
58. Casey Tebo attempting a publicity stunt by pretending to steal clam chowder
ingredients from a supermarket in an attempt to prove a point relating to copyright
infringement in an effort to spread awareness of his film.
57. Finding two principals of Prenda Law guilty of the charges of conspiracy to
commit fraud, money laundering, and perjury by a Minnesota District Court of law,
demonstrating acknowledgement by the U.S. Government who accuses Prenda
principals John Steele and Paul Hansmeier of running a multimillion-dollar fraud and
extortion operation.
56. Having to force an Oregan Judge to deny Voltage Pictures legal expense
demands of $17,348l due to an original agreed settlement amount of $750 plus
reasonable attorney fees. Showing that a copyright advocate believes an entire bill
sum is a 'reasonable' amount only later to be forced to pay a similar amount to the
defendants.
55. The Hamburg Regional Court expecting anyone who shares a link must have
preemptive knowledge if the linked material is infringing or not and are required to
properly attribute it's license, if any exist. Expressing that a lack of knowledge of
infringement does not equal innocence.
54. Voltage Pictures and friends being found guilty of wrongfully accusing others of
copyright infringement and having to compensate their legal expenses, while others
who can't afford a proper defense susceptible to legal threats and intimidation
regardless of any factual proof of innocence or guilt..
53. The ever growing increase of bias, rights holder sponsored research generated
from educational institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, with an end goal of
influencing politicians and lawmakers to favor the goals of mainstream copyright
advocates.
52. Forcing game enthusiasts to wait through endless hours of loading screens due
to an overly broad patent on loading-screen mini-games, which also illustrates the
lack of motivation for content creators to challenge such vague patents in the
pursuit of their own product enrichment, preventing the advancements of
innovation.
51. Topdawg Entertainment Inc., Interscope Records, and Universal Music Group
being found guilty of wrongfully censoring Jonathan Emile's music track from
YouTube, iTunes and Soundcloud.
50. The CEO of anti-piracy outfit MarkScan being arrested for masquerading as their
competing anti-piracy firm Aiplex, in an attempt to lure the clients of their
competition. Demonstrating how copyright advocates believe that common law
doesn't apply to them.
49. Movie chief Graham Burke comparing the actions of file-sharing site
administrators to the examples of a heroin dealer in an attempt to please his
investors.
48. Estonian Theatrical Distribution using wildcard search-bots to identify and send
DMCA take-down notices in an attempt to remove News articles that has the word
"Trolls" in the title from search engines, demonstrating a lack of concern from these
enforcement outfits.
47. The US Navy deploying improperly licensed software over half a million times,
only to reject any accusation of wrong doing when caught and threatening to claim
"sovereign immunity, in an attempt escape any charges.
46. Russian anti-piracy executive Maxim Ryabyko being arrested for fraud after
getting caught offering a $800k settlement to Russian file-sharing site Lib(.)rus(.)ec
to make charges of infringement simply 'go away'.
45. Anti-Piracy Outfits like NBC Universal fabricating links in an attempt to show
piracy as being a larger problem than it really is.
44. HBO, Paramount Pictures, and others sending multiple DMCA notices for links
that don't exist in an attempt to show how allegedly ineffective the DMCA is.
43. Rights enforcement outfit Copyright UNIVERSAL going on a censorship rampage
and attempting to censor anything that crosses their path.
42. FOX using a game clip video from YouTube in a Family Guy episode, and then
claiming it as their own and DMCA'ing the original video.
41. The MPAA's chief saying: "Im proud to say that the state of our industry has
never been stronger.... To paraphrase Mark Twain, the death of the movies has been
greatly exaggerated. the former US Senator, MPAA chairman and CEO Chris Dodd
said."
40. Sending thousands of false DMCA notices to Google and other providers that
contain links that haven't existed for the past four years, wasting everyone's time
while the copyright enforces gets paid to have others waste resources.
39. Troll services company Hatton and Berkeley lying in public and threatening to
sue a blogger and other commenters when the companys zero-liability speculative
invoicing business model was revealed.
38. Warner/Chappell setting aside $14 million for legal settlements after claiming
damages and aggressively pursuing those who used the "Happy Birthday" song in
public. With a settlement amount being a tiny fraction of how much revenue was
generated by claiming false copyrights, all while deterring restaurants from singing
the song on a childs birthday, due to the fear of being sued. aka Copyright
Innovation.
37. Portugal placing a non-existing website on it's national website block list at their
tax-payers expense.
36. Placing a Music-Release News site on the Portugal website blocklist for the
reason of using YouTube's embed feature on his website.
35. The Anne Frank Foundation announcing Anne's father, Otto Frank, as a co-author
of the Anne Frank Diary in order to extend the copyright terms on the novel, in an
attempt to prevent the book from going to the public sector.
34. Compromising forums of file-sharing sites and charging for access to said
database of usernames and hashed passwords, for use of copyright enforcement
persuasion and harassment tactics.
33. Allowing anti-piracy lawyers to steal $25 million from rights holders over the
course of five years.
32. The capitalizing of scientific research articles for the sole purpose of profit
generation. Regardless that tax payers paid for the funding of said research.
31. Hosting a SoundCloud music remix contest only for submitted songs to be
blocked causing the uploader to receive a strike on their account.
30. Sentencing a young adult to a debtors prison when he is unable to pay his
copyright infringement fine, placing his life in ruin and forcing taxpayers to foot the
bill for the benefit of a multi-million dollar industry.
29. Prison guards participating in p2p swarms, and showing pirated movies during
prison movie time. And getting away with what many have been convicted of.
28. The encouragement of Digital Discrimination and attacking legitimate
businesses like VPN services.
27. Attempts at invoking political favour by funding cinemas in embassies and
encouraging their use as free Hollywood cinemas for lobbying efforts.
26. Drug trafficking (Vytas Simanavicius case)
25. Defamation (Prenda and Malibu Media)
24. Uploading torrents and copyright material themselves unlawfully (Megaupload
case, file-lockers, and honeypot schemes).
23. Breaking the 8th Amendment of the USA under the justification of example
making. (The story of Aaron Swartz)
22. Actual cyber-crimes of spreading malware and trojans on the Internet (ACS:Law)
21. Unwarranted and unlawful incarceration beyond what the law regards as a legal
period by filing new charges after a great time span. (Piratebay founder Gottfrid
Svartholm)
20. Bribery, blackmail and perversion of the justice system (TPB Trials, US Gov &
Holders Vs Kim Dotcom, Mississippi General Attorney Jim Hood hired to go after
Google)
19. Wasting more tax-payer money than artists lose to piracy over unlawful use of
police forces (Kim DotCom's mansion raid and the Nuke proof data center raid to
take down TPB) when the police could be saving actual lives... So anti-pirates are
also potentially indirectly responsible for civilian deaths due to siphoning police
reserves.
18. Filing millions of false DMCA notices and taking down many legitimate sites
while hurting many businesses in the process. (Censorship)
17. Supporting the economic crisis by indirectly propagating and supporting one of
the main reasons that lead to it (geo-licensing)
16. Fraud and embezzlement. (SMAIS scandal and Snbjrn Steingrmsson
admission of guilt)
15. Misappropriation of funds and being worse at lying than a 12 year old (Pedro
Farr (SGAE) case scandal in Spain)
14. Falsifying statements and signatures of various artists in order to gain support
for several anti-piracy measures including a pirate-levy. (Warner Brothers Scandal),
(the Gallo report)
13. Attacking the freedom of speech and the freedom to report and inform of
newspapers and censorship of news sources.
12. Extorting over half of the income of artists and more even though the
publishers/companies/3rd parties don't create anything, and subjugating them to
insane contract offers while playing a "defender" of artists against piracy which is a
justification to protect the extortion money.
11. Projecting losses of income due to piracy in order to create money out of thin air
and evade taxes. (Perfect 10 scandal and the forfeiture and liquidation of all Perfect
10's copyrighted assets.)
10. Influencing supposed neutral agencies to favor their organization demands
above others (MPAA's influence in ICANN)
09. Forcing Internet Providers to implement easily circumvented blocking tactics to
protect another countries financial interests while forcing the local ISP's and citizens
to foot the bill. (ISPs must pay to block TPB)
08. Injecting anti-piracy curriculum into multiple schools to persuade our children to
protect their corporate interests above civil liberties (MPAA wanting less fair-use
material in educational curriculum)
07. Perversions of fair-use and allowing content to be removed from the public
domain and placed back under copyrights. (Carol Highsmith Vs Getty Images and
Zuma Press Vs Getty Images)
06. Creating questionable business tactics and actively pursuing them. (The
Speculative Invoicing scandal, The Speculative Invoicing Handbook)
05. Systematically targeting open sourced projects to prevent the innovation of file-
sharing. (Popcorn Time forks)
04. The film industry hiring digital-hitmen to DDoS file-sharing sites and torrent
trackers.
03. ISPs become the digital police as civil liberties to privacy become diminished.
(Wanting ISPs to spy on their customers)
02. The silent introduction of new laws that are vaguely worded to allow legal
perversion of the judicial systems. (SOPA, PIPA, & SOPA 2.0 that got passed as H.R.
4681, Section 309)
01. The participation and contribution to an ever growing copyright-enforcement
industry that neither supports the artists nor fuels innovation. (The Copyright
Enforcement Group and the 1000's of similar agencies that allegedly turns piracy
into profit)

Plenty more can be added...

-Kopimi (1)