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Rightsholders sure are trigger-happy when it comes to wiping their copyrighted content off the face of the Internet. They’re so trigger-happy, in fact, that they’re dishing out all kind of takedown requests for links to websites that haven’t existed for months.
That’s right, Google got takedown notices about MegaUpload yesterday, despite the fact that the site has been defunct since mid-January. Same thing with Demonoid and BTJunkie, even though those sites don’t exist anymore either, and the content the offending links point to is long gone. That picture above is a list of requests that include MegaUpload urls. It’s an awful lot of takedown requests for a site that’s been taken down itself.
Who’s sending all these requests? Take a peek at Google’s Transparency Report and you can see they’re big name rightsholders like Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI. They aren’t issuing the requests themselves, of course, they’ve got reporting agencies to do it, but still no one in the chain has noticed Megaupload links don’t work anymore.
Why? It’s a symptom of an increasingly automated copyright-enforcement process, the same kind of behavior that gets good content caught in the crossfire. And with takedown requests doubling in the last year, you kind of have to wonder how many of them might not be pointing to anything. It might be absurd to carefully monitor each and every request, but maybe rightsholders should at least brush up on their current events and keep track of which enemies they’ve already slain. [Google via TorrentFreak]
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Did you look at the picture before writing this report???
There is no mention of megaupload on it. Ever on Google’s site you have to go back a couple of pages to find a takedown notice for mega
Do you think they chose to make this article based on a picture alone???
“That picture above is a list of requests that include MegaUpload urls.”
If you actually click the link in the third paragraph, you’ll be able to see that two days ago a takedown request for 531 different URLs of which 31 are for Megaupload.
I think you should try clicking the Request ID then youll be able to see all of the pages they want removing instead of just one from the table of requests.
Thanks dude.
Was looking, but didn’t click the “Request ID”.
This page is interesting:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=last-month
Shows the top sites from the last month that have had take down notices and the top dog Filestube.com has had less than 0.1% of its pages tracked!!!
That site is only for illegal material.
Yeah i was looking at the microsoft ones, 4.5 million website URL take down requests, it’s ridiculous. Companies should know by now taking the URL off of Googles search results is pointless, those who are looking to get this stuff illegally will always find a way.