[Infowarrior] - Citigroup invokes DMCA -- but the document lives on....as usual

[Richard Forno]

Citigroup Gets DMCA Takedown

A sends:
http://lbo-news.com/2010/09/24/citigroup-feels-violated/

LBO News from Doug Henwood

Citigroup feels violated

24 September 2010

This morning, WordPress informed me that they’d received a “valid DMCA notice”—as in Digital Millennium Copyright Act—notice about a Citigroup research report I posted here in February 2009. Until the issue could be “resolved”—meaning I acknowledged this grave offense against intellectual property—I couldn’t post anything to this blog. Once I said “Yes, Sir,” my posting privileges were restored. The document was, of course, deleted.

The report was an analysis of the Treasury’s proposed bank capital requirements in the run-up to the stress tests. Citi’s conclusion—and I think even the DMCA allows me to quote a phrase this brief from the doc—was that “the US government is following a relatively bank-friendly, investor-friendly approach.” So there you have it, just for the record.

PDF version of the Citigroup report rebuilt from Google Docs: http://cryptome.org/0002/citigroup-dmca/citigroup-dmca.pdf