In November 2014, my pal and colleague, Clicky Steve, posted at Transparency Report for Automattic, “Open Sourcing Our DMCA Process“:
[…] we are pleased to announce that today we are open sourcing our DMCA process docs on GitHub – under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
[…] there is also a comprehensive set of detailed ‘predefined replies’ that we use when corresponding with both users and complainants in specific situations.
For awhile, I had these saved as Snippets in Alfred, which meant I couldn’t easily share those with my team.
So, I made an Alfred workflow with the DMCA snippets I use most frequently:
When using the predefined reply To User → Processed Notice, we’re working with two browser tabs because we create a new ticket to the site owner.
After I confirm the notice is valid and process the takedown request, I do the following:
- Copy the text of the DMCA notice from the complainant, then press Control–Tab to switch to the new ticket in the other browser tab.
- Clicking in the body of the message, I summon Alfred ( ⌘–Spacebar ), enter the keyword
dmca.b.proc, then press Enter.
How’d I save time?
- Since I have the
{clipboard}dynamic placeholder (Alfred) inserted where the complainant’s notice needs to be pasted, it saves me the motion of another copy-paste. Estimate: 5 seconds. - I don’t have to navigate through our ticket system snippets by trackpad. Estimate: 5 seconds.
Save ten seconds per notice — I’ll take it!
Assuming I don’t have any blockers for uploading the Alfred workflow to Automattic, I’ll work on sharing it in the near future. 🙂
All Narfed Up 