staticman.net now hosts copyright-infringing sports streaming content

[AleksandrHovhannisyan]

Hi @eduardoboucas,

For some context, today I received a DMCA claim from the NBA for a blog article I wrote on the topic of adding comments to static sites. The claim states:

Copyrighted NBA sports videos and images owned by NBA Properties Inc. Sites are backlinking illegal NBA streaming sites. This is contributory infringement. Pursuant to 17 USC 512(c)(3)(A)(ii) the official website for 'NBA Sports' includes a commulative episode list at the below url:

I requested access to the full claimed URLs (9977 in total), and many of them are from similar static blogs. This confused me at first since my article has no media related to the NBA or even sports. I then checked all my links one by one and I saw that I had linked to staticman.net, which at the time was the landing page for your project:

However, that domain now 522s on Cloudflare, and if I search "staticman" on Google, the first result that comes up is a sports streaming site, which I assume is what the DMCA claim was referring to:

I assume you no longer own that domain and it expired, so I just wanted to make sure you're aware so you can update links and/or let folks know that this project is no longer affiliated with that domain.

[horizon-blue]

Just chiming in to second this. I received the exact same DMCA takedown notice from NBA Properties for an old technical blog post earlier today.

After some digging, I came to the exact same conclusion: the staticman.net domain expired, was hijacked, and is now redirecting to copyright-infringing sports streaming content. I've since removed the link from my site, but thanks for documenting this here. It is a frustrating trap for everyone affected 😔