UK's RIAA Goes After Google Using the US DMCA

An anonymous reader passes along a DMCA takedown notice directed at Google and authored by the British Phonographic Industry, Britain's equivalent of the RIAA. P2pnet identifies the BPI as the outfit that "contributed to the British government's Digital Economy bill, complete with its ACTA Three Strikes and you're Off The Net element, with hardly a murmur from the UK lamescream media." Are there any precedents for a UK trade organization attempting to use an American law to force an American company to take down links to UK-copyrighted material?

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Re:Happened to me as well.

[jez9999]

Grey area? There is no grey area, you are violating someone elses copyright.
They are under no obligation to let you do anything with their materials.

Yup. Which is why copyright law needs a drastic overhaul, as the Pirate Party movement says. This has long-since stopped being the best deal for all of society.

Re:What is Google HOSTING, exactly?

[slick7]

Read the DMCA notice.

None of the listed 'infringing site locations' are at YouTube.com.

This is nothing but a fishing trip by the industry.

I'm thinking Googles response should be 'piss off'.

Google should tell Great Britain to clean up the Gulf oil spill and then we'll clean up the internet. In other words it ain't gonna happen.