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Columbia Pictures, the studio behind the recent Adam Sandler film "Pixels," has gone on the warpath, targeting independent films on Vimeo that use the word "pixels" in the title, TorrentFreak reports.
According to a DMCA complaint lodged with Vimeo by anti-piracy organisation Entura International on behalf of Columbia Pictures, with which Vimeo has complied, 10 videos were targeted by the production company.
These include: "Pixels -- Life Buoy," filmmaker Dragos Bardac's project for his degree at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, uploaded in 2010; a dance music video called "Detuned Pixels -- Choco" uploaded in 2014; a short film called Pantone Pixels, uploaded in 2011; a video by graphic designer Franz Jeitz, announcing that he'll be speaking at the 2015 Pixels Festival; and, ironically, the award-winning short film "Pixels" by Patrick Jean which served as the inspiration for the Sandler film.
While Jean's film has been removed from his own account, it remains untouched on the account of One More Productions, which produced it.
The sweep also caught two unofficially uploaded copies of the Columbia Pictures film's trailer. A search for the word "pixels" on Vimeo reveals that some targeting may have been applied, returning some 9,050 results still live on the site at time of writing.
According to a complaint by NGO NeMe, which uploaded a video called "Pixels" in 2006, video creators are also being issued "strikes" along with the takedown. When a content creator receives three of these strikes, their channel will be suspended from the site.
(Score: 2, Informative) by terrab0t on Tuesday August 11 2015, @08:29PM
There is a decent way [mediagoblin.org] to decentralize sites like Vimeo, flickr, etc. Unfortunately, using this on a server you have any control over will never be as easy and accessible as signing up for a free account on one of the existing sites.
It's possible that MediaGoblin could become as ubiquitous as Wordpress, which can be installed for you with many full‐service web hosting accounts. You could buy a domain name and host a MediaGoblin site for less than $5.00 / month. That would still require more time, money and expertise than most content creators have. Vendors could offer accounts on their shared MediaGoblin sites with free tiers like Vimeo. It would probably get most people past the hurtles of initial money, time and expertise, but they would have to give up some control. Smaller independent sites may still not have time to look into every DMCA claim that hits them.
The only thing that protects you from this kind of fraud is running your own site, but even if that becomes as streamlined as possible it will always be more expensive than signing up for an account on someone else's.