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    From Kevin Bowling@kevin.bowling@kev009.com to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Fri Jul 11 15:32:28 2025
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    IBM has some idiots sending DMCA takedowns to my ISP and separately are
    trying to claim trademark on my domain name.

    Regards,
    Kevin
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  • From Peter H. Wendt@peterwendt@mcamafia.de to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Sat Jul 12 11:46:41 2025
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    Am 12.07.2025 um 00:32 schrieb Kevin Bowling:
    IBM has some idiots sending DMCA takedowns to my ISP and separately are trying to claim trademark on my domain name.

    Regards,
    Kevin

    Had that occasionally.

    They're not from IBM but from some outworldly spammers i.e. from north
    korea, ruzzia or chinese origin to blackmail domain owners. Just ignore
    them. If the ISP is aware of that, nothing will ever happen.
    On my IP they send them fake, threading mails that they are now the new
    owners of mcamafia and he has to put down my content or pay fines in the thousands of dollars.

    He informed me and just laughed about them.
    --
    Very friendly greetings from Peter in Germany
    http://www.mcamafia.de/
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  • From Dave McGuire@mcguire@lssmuseum.org to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Jul 15 23:50:58 2025
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    On 7/11/25 18:32, Kevin Bowling wrote:
    IBM has some idiots sending DMCA takedowns to my ISP and separately are trying to claim trademark on my domain name.

    Damn suits.
    --
    Dave McGuire, President/Curator
    Large Scale Systems Museum
    New Kensington, PA
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  • From Kevin Bowling@kevin.bowling@kev009.com to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Jul 29 18:38:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware

    On 7/12/25 2:46 AM, Peter H. Wendt wrote:
    Am 12.07.2025 um 00:32 schrieb Kevin Bowling:
    IBM has some idiots sending DMCA takedowns to my ISP and separately
    are trying to claim trademark on my domain name.

    Regards,
    Kevin

    Had that occasionally.

    They're not from IBM but from some outworldly spammers i.e. from north korea, ruzzia or chinese origin to blackmail domain owners. Just ignore them. If the ISP is aware of that, nothing will ever happen.
    On my IP they send them fake, threading mails that they are now the new owners of mcamafia and he has to put down my content or pay fines in the thousands of dollars.

    He informed me and just laughed about them.


    This was real. In house council too which seems like an odd use of
    personnel.

    They seemed to be blindly but relentlessly following some software that
    was triggering on the string "IBM Confidential" -- the files in question
    were from IBM's official public FTP server and not particularly
    interesting so the whole thing is an exercise in busywork. But they
    have not followed up after removing a handful of files so hopefully it
    is done.

    The chilling part of this is, the DMCA or at least my network provider
    seems to require 24 hour removal before the provider will start cutting
    off service. That seems extra-judicial if, for instance, I needed to
    retain council to fight off an invalid report. For some historical
    reasons (past business venture), the site happens to be hosted like a
    small ISP on a multi-carrier network in a high end commercial data
    center so some nefarious or incompetent threat actor could take out an
    entire network with this legal framework unless you can seemingly hot
    potato responsibility downward and isolate to a single URI.

    Regards,
    Kevin Bowling
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