EFF’s Tweet About an Overzealous DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown Get ready for a tale as good as anything you’d see on television. Here’s the sequence of events: the website TorrentFreak publishes an article about a leak of TV episodes, including shows from the network Starz. TorrentFreak tweets its article, Starz sends a copyright takedown notice. TorrentFreak writes about the takedown, including a comment from EFF. EFF tweets the article about the takedown and the original article. EFF’s tweet…gets hit with a takedown. TorrentFreak’s original article about leaked episodes of television does contain a few screenshots of some of the leaked episodes—enough to establish the veracity of the story. It does not contain links to download the episodes, a fact to keep in mind as this story goes on. TorrentFreak then tweeted a link to its article, which did contain a thumbnail image, but not one that matches any of the screenshots in the article. An agency acting...
