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How The DMCA Affects Search Engines

Posted by timothy on from the details-and-semantics dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here is an interesting article regarding the application of the DMCA safe harbor provisions to search engines. This is what causes Google to remove links from its search results and to put a disclaimer at the bottom of the page stating "In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed [x] result(s) from this page." The article is published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and there is a direct link to a pdf version of the article."

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  1. I wrote a paper about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But a search engine I can't name made me take it down because it includes information on circumventing their search technology to find DMCA information.

  2. Phew! by spangineer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thank goodness the 23 page article has an abstract.

  3. Re:what i love though... by LostCluster · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep--Google's complying with the law, and giving the "rights" holder the finger by providing a copy of the C&D letter that contains more than enough information to find the "content" on a P2P network.

    I wonder if the rights holder can copyright their C&D letter...

  4. Slashdot users violating SCO's IP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Slashdot users,

    If you would like permission to legally view the content of search engines such as Google, contact SCO licensing where we can provide individual licenses for only $699 per search engine or a bulk license of $10^699 for all search engines.

    If you do not comply I will publicly brand you a Linus long-hair and GNU hippy, and will ask Microsoft for money to sue you with.

    Yours faithfully,

    Darl McBride,

    CEO SCO Inc.

  5. Re:Remember Kazaalite and Scientology? by maximilln · · Score: 3, Funny

    -----
    Fact is that Companies and Organisations can force the removal of Links from Search Engines
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    Yet I still can't remove the references returned by Google propagated by some script kiddie with my mail address as an index token.

    I'm fscked..

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    +++ATHZ 99:5:80
  6. Re:what i love though... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    have to scroll through the claim tha tit's infringing

    I type porn keywords so often that and I cunt spell right either.

  7. Re:Law out of control! by maximilln · · Score: 1, Funny

    If only it were that easy.

    No, in all reality, they sell you to the circus because they know that you'll dance before you'll die. They make you dance, and fly, and jump through hoops. The crowd cheers. Some people laugh, some people cry, but they all go home with a great sense of entertainment.

    And, at the end of the day, you get to eat another portion of rotten meat and tasteless meal. If you don't perform tomorrow then they send you out on the road to take your chances with the homosexual police officers just waiting for a victim with available butt-cheeks.

    Pleasant life, eh?

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    +++ATHZ 99:5:80
  8. DMCA pigs and book burning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Land of the free my f***ing ass >:(

  9. Use right-wing tricks against them by fishbowl · · Score: 3, Funny

    Instead of saying "due to DMCA blah blah blah"

    say "Enemies of free speech and opponents of a free press in your governmnet blah blah blah"

    This message brought to you by a left-wing liberal openly opposed to the current order.

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    -fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.