A false copyright claim to take down indigenous rights group website — seeks to invoke Netra News
<p>Earlier this month, Netra News <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/netra/2020/we-hack-facebook-state-sponsored-cybercrime-in-bangladesh-1137.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">published a long story </a>on how the Bangladesh government authorities were credibly suspected of making false copyright claims against websites and YouTube channels belonging to dissident Bangladeshis living abroad in order to close them down — something which they have been pretty successful at doing.</p>
<p>The way this is done, as the incidents reported in the Netra News story indicate, is that the Bangladesh government authorities — through their large number of sub-contractors — first set up dummy websites. Then they take content (videos or articles) already posted or published on targeted YouTube channels or websites, against which they want to launch the copyright strikes. They then republish the content on their dummy sites with an earlier date than the original published version, so that they can pretend they were the original publishers.</p>
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