Convicted
Insider Trader
Sebastian
Pinto-Thomaz
Tried to Censor
so Now DMCA
Abuse
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 14 – A convicted insider
trader who was released early
from prison during the
COVID-19 pandemic in December
2024 threatened Inner City
Press demanding to get
accurate coverage of his trial
and conviction removed from
the Internet.
Sebastian
Pinto-Thomaz was found guilty
in a trial that Inner City
Press covered daily before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff. He was
designated to the Federal
penitentiary at Otisville,
then released during the
pandemic. Inner City Press
reported no more about him.
But in a
series of increasingly
legalistic e-mails in late
2024, a G-mail account called
PintoThomas 062 began
requesting and then demanding
removal of the coverage -
which it acknowledged was
accurate. Finally
on Christmas it asserted
rights under a South African
variant of the GDPR - also
being used by a 60 Minutes
producer to seek to avoid
discovery production in a
harassment lawsuit, and by UN
officials who seek to avoid
public scrutiny while
collecting public money. Pinto
wrote: "As a South African
citizen, I am protected under
the *Protection of Personal
Information Act (POPIA)."
After Inner City Press did not
accede to censorship, on
January 14, 2025 it received a
complaint about the same
article - under the Digital
Millenium Copyright Act,
claiming a website in
California often used for this
purpose had published the
article and owes the copyright
to it.
It is a
fraud - but DMCA is written so
that until it is resolved -
Inner City Press has filed a
counterclaim - the article is
supposed to come down. This is
abuse - we will have more on
this.
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