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News Copyright holders have filed five million requests to delete ThePirateBay.org URLs from Google’s search results over the past several years. Roughly two-thirds of these requests indeed resulted in links being removed, while the search engine took no action at all for less than one percent. The Pirate Bay’s homepage remains available as well, despite […]
Copyright holders would like Google to be more proactive when it comes to piracy. The company should promote legal services in its search results, is an often heard suggestion. A good idea perhaps but, at the moment, some copyright holders are taking things in the opposite direction. The entertainment industries have gone head to head […]
Dailymotion has been ordered to pay Italian broadcasting giant RTI €5.5m in compensation after failing to take down copyrighted TV shows. The Court of Rome ruled that the video platform can be held liable for infringing uploads by its users and requires it to remove content, even when no specific URLs are pointed out. Similar […]
This week we spotted an odd takedown request. None other than Hollywood’s MPAA asked Google to remove MPAA.org from its search results. This wasn’t the real MPAA though, but an imposter that has sent tens of thousands of takedown demands, mostly targeted at pirate streaming sites. In 2012, Google first published a Transparency Report for […]
Copyright holders have asked Google to remove four billion links to ‘pirate’ search results over the years. The vast majority of these requests were honored. This includes hundreds of millions of URLs which are not yet indexed. These end up on a preemptive blacklist instead. For most people, search engines such as Google are an […]
Deezloader Remix is a tool that allows users of streaming service Deezer to download and keep audio files obtained from the platform. Deezer has filed a takedown notice to have the project removed but cites no specific legislation. This has piqued the interest of the NotABug code collaboration platform where Deezloader Remix is hosted. While […]
Photographer Kristen Pierson Reilly has filed a lawsuit against Facebook for failing to respond properly to a DMCA notice. The social network refused to remove a copy of her photo, stating that it wasn’t clear whether its use was infringing. In a complaint filed in a federal court in New York, Pierson now demands compensation […]
Vimeo has been ordered to pay Italian broadcasting giant €8.5m in compensation after failing to take down copyrighted TV shows. The Rome Court of Appeals also ordered the US-based video service to prevent future uploads of the content or face 1,000 or euros in fines for each offense. Video-hosting platforms that allow users to upload […]
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