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Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search.
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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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Those takedown services are mostly trash. At my last job we got, well, not a billion of them, but a substantial number and so many were dead URLs, sites that don't exist anymore, wrongly identified content, IPFS gateways and so on.
A shocking few were actually content that they claimed it to be, and I can't imagine whatever this company is doing with google results is somehow more useful in preventing piracy.
Sounds like a classic cash grab—which is kind of like piracy.
I disagree, unless you mean nautical piracy. The difference is that people are being swindled into paying them for a service that’s less effective than they represent it as being, whereas with piracy the only “loss” anyone suffers is speculative at best. What they’re doing is more like fraud, honestly. Unfortunately that speculative loss’s value is codified into law and the fraud is probably permitted as long as they have some fine print somewhere covering their asses.
I do mean nautical piracy, actually. Arr!
The same stuff as botting on torrents, even when the content being torrented is legally available on the creators website (adultswim.com), and then sending cease and desist letters. We won't pay them bastards, so our strategy in court will be that it IS fully available, legally.