Sony DMCA's themselves on Twitter

[sales2099]

DonFerrari said:

sales2099 said:

The thing is it’s not confidential anymore. It’s out there and has been for some time now. This isn’t a classified government document...it’s a plot of a video game. People talked about Star Wars spoilers and I don’t recall Disney going about things the way Sony is.

Sure I can get behind silencing videos and tweets or whatever that actively post spoiler content. But memes, reactions, and non contextual discussions...that’s wrong. 

It is confidential and under IP protection. So people preying and festering on the leak know they are in the wrong and are no angels that need protection.

Second paragraph is probably you didn't see that there is plausibility that several of the DMCA claims were automatically by bot monitoring or algorithm since they wouldn't really be able to manually search and analysis every single one. So that would end up on how tweeter reacted to Sony demand.

Think Jweibcoms recent comment says it best. It’s an abuse of power no matter how you slice it. People who have no affiliation to Sony talking about what they saw on the internet shouldn’t be a nail to Sony’s hammer. 

As for your comment on the algorithms, I can understand the process but ultimately it doesn’t excuse them. Going “scorched earth” and obliterating anything that can be interpreted as a spoiler is a concerning precedent.