Hacker group Impact Team has followed through on its threat to release over 30 million user records from the extramarital dating service Ashley Madison, but site owner Avid Life Media continues using copyright law to limit the distribution of the leak. Relying on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Avid Life has successfully obtained takedowns of links to the data posted onFacebook, Twitter and Reddit. Additional takedown notices have shut down metasites permitting search of the data leak by account email address or phone number. 

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In addition to Thriving Attorney, Darin M. Klemchuk is founder of Klemchuk LLP, a litigation, intellectual property, and transactional law firm located in Dallas, Texas.  He also co-founded Project K, a charity devoted to changing the world one random act of kindness at a time.  Click to read more about Darin Klemchuk's practice as an intellectual property lawyer.