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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: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @04:35PM
Google should just make it official policy that they won't do any sanity checking when they receive a DMCA notice for a website associated with the organization filing the notice under the entirely reasonable assumption that they are in a better position to judge the content of their own website than google ever could be.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 05 2016, @05:40PM
Actually, they should remove any results. It's Google's private, not required concenssion (Back then because they wanted to get MAFIAA content on YouTube) that they censor search results like that... and since they began doing that it puts pressure on every other search engine to do the same.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 06 2016, @02:30PM
AFAIK, when sending a DMCA takedown request, you promise that you did your due diligence and all that. So, Google should remove the WB site, and set as a condition for restoring it that WB admit to sending DMCA takedown requests in bad faith and be blacklisted from ever sending one again.