All the complaints and take-down notices filed with Twitter or against Twitter users for copyright violation, have been about live streaming of Cricket, and sent from lawyers based in India, representing Cricket boards. An analysis that MediaNama did of information available on ChillingEffects.org, a database to which Twitter recently began submitting its takedown notice information, revealed the following: - All the notices received by Twitter were related to links to sites offering (allegedly) illegal live streaming of Cricket online - 115 notices were received by Twitter between 20th September 2011 and 6th January 2012 from India - from Bangalore based lawyers representing the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket South Africa and Cricket Australia. - Complaints covered 174 status updates from 94 unique users. - Maximum complaints were against tweets from @pakicricteam (11), @cricketlink (9), @Junaidlang (7), @crictimeDotCom (7), @MobileTv1 (6) and @pamatolaa (6). - 61 complaints were filed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, 39 by Cricket South Africa and 15 complaints by Cricket Australia. - The complaints, as expected, coincided with various beginning with the Champions League T20 series, for which the BCCI filed 39 complaints. 24 notices were filed, related to live streaming of Australia's Tour of South Africa, and 15 for , India vs England. Other tournaments for which complaints were filed included India's tour of Australia, Sri Lanka's tour of South Africa, Australia vs New Zealand and India vs West Indies - Maximum notices were filed on the 24th of November (23) all…
