It ’s no surprisal when a Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) takedown request turn out to beterribleandabsurd , but just in case anyone forget how ridiculous these robotic notices can be , the DMCA has been tolerant enough to offer a footling refresher in the form of HBO telling Google to take away connection to … itself .
One DMCA Notice assume Down 1.45 Million Education Blogs
Now , technically , the request was filed on behalf of HBO by DtectNet , the anti - piracy arm of MarkMonitor , but it did n’t just ask Google to take out links to the “ Eastbound and Down ” surgical incision of HBO ’s online store , it also demanded that MTV.com , IGN.com , and Pinterest take away exclusively logical , non - copyright - violating - whatsoever links and news stories from their site .
as luck would have it for HBO , Google caught the error before anything could actually be removed , but not even near - omniscient Google can keep up with every single bogus observance . Just last yr , there were 50 million DMCA put-down postulation demanding that ( often entirely legal ) content be take out . Still , obnoxious as it may be , it ’s doubtful we ’ll ever tire of get a line company that maltreat the DMCA essentially hitting themselves in the facial expression over , and over , and over again . [ Geekosystem ]
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