Understanding Mediafire Copyright Claims: What You Need to Know

In this episode, Killian Downing tells us how he is “about inclusion and inspiring people and engaging them more deeply…” in stories through digital heritage. He is passionate about building community and engagement through digital heritage initiatives.

Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos highlighting the benefits and barriers of open culture, as well as providing inspiration and advice on the topic of open cultural heritage. Killian is an Archivist at Dublin City University in Ireland, where she works to innovate university practice on digital heritage.

What are torrents?

Torrenting is the downloading and uploading of files over the BitTorrent network. Instead of downloading files to a central server, torrents download files from other users’ devices on the network. Rather, users upload files from their own devices for other users to download.

Torrenting is the most popular form of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and requires torrent management software to connect to the BitTorrent network. Such software is free to download for a number of different devices.

The title content of your video

has been claimed for copyright. You may see a copyright notice in your YouTube Studio control panel:

The copyright owner can set their content ID policy so that all videos on YouTube where Your copyrighted material is recognized, monetized, blocked or tracked. . This means that when a video is uploaded to YouTube, where its copyrighted content is recognized, YouTube will apply its preferred policy to the user’s video.

What you should know if you receive one of these emails

It is important to note that without a court order, the alleged copyright owner has no way of discovering the identity behind of your marked IP address.

Your ISP does not provide any personally identifiable information to the copyright owner and the communications you receive directly from them are intended solely to urge you to stop illegal downloading.