https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/
Warner Bros. is vigorously trying to prevent pirated content from showing up in search results, but in doing so the movie studio has shot itself in the foot. Recently, Warner asked Google to take down several of its own pages, claiming that they are copyright-infringing.
The movie industry has gone head to head with Google in recent years, demanding tougher anti-piracy measures from the search engine.
According to Warner Bros. and other major studios, Google makes it too easy for its users to find pirated content. Instead, they would prefer Google to remove sites such as The Pirate Bay from search results entirely.
Warner itself is also taking action, by reporting pirated content to the search engine, asking it to be removed from the index. This year the movie studio intensified its efforts and thus far it has flagged over four million allegedly infringing URLs.
We use the term allegedly with good reason, as not all of the reports are accurate. In fact, this week we stumbled upon recent takedown requests that have some glaring errors.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @03:03PM
Warner Bros. Flags Its Own Website as a Piracy Portal
That sounds like theonion, seriously.
(Score: 4, Informative) by FatPhil on Monday September 05 2016, @03:13PM
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/32015/microsoft-files-dmca-takedown-with-google-against-itself/index.html
http://www.neowin.net/news/neobytes--universal-pictures-seeds-pirated-movie-copy-files-takedown-notice-against-itself
and for a bit more comic relief: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/five-examples-of-lame-dmca-takedowns/
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @03:45PM
hahah, morons.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Monday September 05 2016, @10:55PM
Proper links for the lazy:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/32015/microsoft-files-dmca-takedown-with-google-against-itself/index.html [tweaktown.com]
http://www.neowin.net/news/neobytes--universal-pictures-seeds-pirated-movie-copy-files-takedown-notice-against-itself [neowin.net]
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/five-examples-of-lame-dmca-takedowns/ [arstechnica.com]
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Also, the tweaktown one refuses to load with NoScript enabled, so don't waste your time on that piece of shit.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday September 05 2016, @11:34PM
It was perfectly readable for me, with Javascript and redirection both disabled. When I let my browser follow the redirection, it took me to a page that says "JAVASCRIPT INTERFERENCE DETECTED".
(Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday September 06 2016, @02:06AM
So the page stuck a redirect in the <noscript> tag. Interesting to know, but only as a curiosity. If a site tries shit like that I just close it and move on, there are enough well-behaved sites out there that I'm not going to stick around on shit ones that pull stunts like that.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday September 06 2016, @07:11AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday September 06 2016, @09:15PM
Yeah, but it's still shitty behaviour so fuck 'em I'll find the info elsewhere. I've almost never needed that setting, so it's usually off because I'd rather know they're being dicks immediately. Sites never have content worth condoning the behaviour by sticking around when they made it clear they don't want another reader