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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 […]
Legal online video sites may soon feature a special marker in search results if proposed amendments to copyright law are passed in Russia. The Ministry of Culture believes that giving consumers the opportunity to instantly identify official platforms will deter piracy. However, the quid pro quo is that markers will only be awarded to sites […]
For the second time in less than a year, Google has been fined by Russian authorities for not removing banned sites, which include pirate portals, from its search indexes. After failing to connect to the country’s national ‘blacklist’, the search giant has reportedly been selectively removing content, but not to the levels required. In order […]
In a closed-door meeting this week to discuss the formation of a new anti-piracy law, rightsholders in Russia proposed that pirate sites should be completely delisted from search results, rather than just links to specified content. Internet companies are said to be against the measures, despite agreement on other fronts. The anti-piracy wars are fought […]
Several weeks ago the Ukrainian government announced the launch of a new campaign to crack down on online piracy. According to the country’s cyberpolice unit, 30 ‘pirate resources’ have been closed, 19 criminal proceedings are underway, with progress also reported against ‘camming’ and live TV piracy. After being regularly featured in the USTR’s ‘Priority Watch […]
Google has voluntarily agreed to remove 832 pirate sites from its search results after reaching a “voluntary” agreement with content owners and ISPs in Australia. That’s according to Village Roadshow chief Graham Burke who described the move as “Google doing the right thing”. The news appears to come with some caveats, however. Section 115a of […]
Google Unlocked is a new extension for Chrome and Opera that attempts to ‘uncensor’ Google search results affected by DMCA notices. While it tends to work as advertised overall, it suffers from – surprise, surprise – an inability to distinguish between infringing and non-infringing URLs. For many years, Google has been bombarded with requests from […]
After breaching Russian federal law by failing to remove banned sites from its search results, Google now appears to be complying. Local reports indicate that the US search giant has removed around 73% of the URLs present in the country’s register of banned sites, a move which heads off its own blocking in Russia. Authorities […]