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This page describes May First Movement Technologys experience with receiving legal threats and our political position on the matter.
The most common threat we receive invokes the [WikiPedia:Dmca Digital Millennium Copyright Act]. The DMCA is a US law that governs, among other things, the publication of material on Internet that include copyright infringements.
In short, the impact of this law on May First Movement Technology is that
As you can gather from these three points, the law makes it very clear to any provider of Internet services: if you get a legal take down notice from a lawyer claiming that material on your site is infringing on their copyright, you should take it down first and ask questions later. The impact of this law is devastating for activists. We've heard numerous stories of organizations that have had their web sites taken down at critical points/moments during their campaigns based on spurious claims of copyright infringement. And some of them had joined us in order to fight this for of censorship.
Unfortunately, DMCA is not the only threat against security faced by Internet Service Providers and not the only one we have fought against in May First Movement Technology.
See how May Fist Movement Technology has responded publicly to legal incidents.