Takedown The Takedown Notice
[T]he site’s decision to publish full URLs also serves to reinforce the message that the whole system of copyright enforcement is broken. Joe McNamee of European Digital Rights, a Brussels-based advocacy group, points out that a takedown notice for a single copyrighted work can include a thousand allegedly offending URLs. In other words, a decade after it was put in place, the model of removing links in the hope that they will not resurface elsewhere is plainly not working. “How dead does the horse need to be before it is becomes clear that flogging it is a waste of time?” McNamee asks.
Indeed, by the logic of the attempts to take down takedown notices on Chilling Effects, rightsholders ought to extend their efforts to sites at one remove—for instance, to the story you are reading, which links to those pages on Chilling Effects that link to the allegedly infringing sites. If they were serious about this, the companies requesting the takedown notices be taken down ought to send us a takedown notice as well. We’ll let you know what happens.
How ludicrous does this all have to get before we stop?