<story><title>Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/shopify-files-lawsuit-over-illegal-dmca-takedown-abuse-231020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lentor</author><text>The problem with Shopify is that literally anyone can open a fake account and submit a DMCA to take down any competitor.&lt;p&gt;Check how basic their form is &amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.shopify.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;dmca#&amp;#x2F;form&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.shopify.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;dmca#&amp;#x2F;form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve been harassed by the same scammer that placed 7 fake DMCA over the past 2 weeks and Shopify automatically removes you content with zero check. That dude just mentioned the product pages he wanted and used totally irrelevant links as a source for what he claims was the original content even a .xyz domain.&lt;p&gt;Shopify support does absolutely nothing even if you send them 20 emails.&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of legit businesses are affected by this loophole exploited by scammers.&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;hashtag&amp;#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;hashtag&amp;#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cj</author><text>My sister’s Etsy shop (which is her family’s sole source of income) was hit by this scam last Christmas during the holiday rush. DMCA takedowns from copycat vendors to wipe away competitors to (temporarily) steal business.&lt;p&gt;It’s not a problem Etsy or others take seriously, even when the attack hits stores with multi-million dollars per year in sales.&lt;p&gt;It’s yet another case of a tech company refusing to staff enough workers to manually review and verify things that computers shouldn’t be doing by themselves.</text></comment>
<story><title>Shopify files lawsuit over DMCA abuse</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/shopify-files-lawsuit-over-illegal-dmca-takedown-abuse-231020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lentor</author><text>The problem with Shopify is that literally anyone can open a fake account and submit a DMCA to take down any competitor.&lt;p&gt;Check how basic their form is &amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.shopify.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;dmca#&amp;#x2F;form&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.shopify.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;dmca#&amp;#x2F;form&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve been harassed by the same scammer that placed 7 fake DMCA over the past 2 weeks and Shopify automatically removes you content with zero check. That dude just mentioned the product pages he wanted and used totally irrelevant links as a source for what he claims was the original content even a .xyz domain.&lt;p&gt;Shopify support does absolutely nothing even if you send them 20 emails.&lt;p&gt;Hundreds of legit businesses are affected by this loophole exploited by scammers.&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;hashtag&amp;#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;hashtag&amp;#x2F;FixShopifyDMCA?src=hashtag_click&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>qingcharles</author><text>I had a business a decade ago where our competitor hired someone to consistently email PayPal and tell them we were actually selling CSAM. PayPal had to act every time by immediately blocking our account and putting us out of business for a week while they checked and saw that we were not in fact selling anything untoward.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re an asshole there are many methods online to really screw with your competitors :(</text></comment>