A web hosting firm known as "FirmBreach" has been receiving notices from the DMCA ( or the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" from Pearson. Pearson is a publishing company who has published a handful of educational material. The culprit who got this notices was from one of "FirmBreachs" users, "Edublog", whom posted educational information for the public. "Edublog" has posted about 1.45 million blogs related to education. Now, Pearson and the DMCA has closed down the 1.45 million blogs from "Firmbreach" database of "Edublog".
The reason for this closure was because Pearson claims that "Edublog" has infringed content. The funny thing is that the closure was done because of one item, Farmer explained,"that the infringing material from 2007 was a reprint of "Beck's Hopelessness Scale," a 20-item self-evaluation questionnaire published in 1974 which Pearson sells for $120". "Edublog" did remove this after the warning but "Firmbreach" noticed it was still on file, so following Pearson and the DMCA orders, they took down all of "Edublogs" posts.
Personally, I think that this was something unfair because of one single content that was posted. I believe that just because Pearson is a larger company and Edublog is a smaller one, that they should have not have removed all of Edublogs posts. I believe that Edublog was just trying to help people get material that they needed when they couldn't find it elsewhere. I am very surprised that all of the 1.45 million blogs got taken down so fast.
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