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Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices

Posted by Soulskill on from the can-you-issue-a-takedown-for-the-streisand-effect? dept.

another random user sends this excerpt from the BBC: "Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy. Google receives 20 million 'takedown' requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, every month. They are all published online. Recent submissions by Fox and Universal Studios include requests for the removal of previous takedown notices. ... By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts. 'It would only take one skilled coder to index the URLs from the DMCA notices in order to create one of the largest pirate search engines available,' wrote Torrent Freak editor Ernesto Van Der Sar on the site."

14 of 197 comments (clear)

  1. Barbara Streisand effect... by dmgxmichael · · Score: 3, Funny

    Again. A pity the first amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

  2. Not raaaaaiiiiiiiiiaaaaain on your wedding day... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts.

    See, Alanis, *this* is ironic.

  3. Wait a minute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was that a comment or a request for a development project?

  4. Yo, I heard you like the DMCA... by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

    (...)

  5. it is as we have feared. by nimbius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Takedown notices have become so widely applied to every aspect of internet content that they have evolved to become self aware.

    the DMCA is becoming t2@(35## NO CARRIER

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    1. Re:it is as we have feared. by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now we just need to convince them to take themselves down. Is it wrong to coerce suicide in an artificial lifeform?

    2. Re:it is as we have feared. by JeanCroix · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wrong? Pfft. Not only is it right, but it can be an artform. Let's get the master to do it - bring in Shatner.

  6. We are going to start an endless loop.... by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now they will send to Slashdot a takedown notice to take down the message about the takedown request they sent to google to take down the list of their takedown requests....

  7. Re:Not raaaaaiiiiiiiiiaaaaain on your wedding day. by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's like a million Dancing With The Stars, when all you want is Doctor Who..."

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  8. Re:Actually, meta-Streisand by nugatory78 · · Score: 3, Funny

    if you can pull off all three at the same time, that grants you the power up of mega-Streisand

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  9. Actually, mecha-Streisand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what actually is "mega-Streisand"?
    Don't you mean mecha-Streisand?

  10. 'MPAATakedwn=': recursive on all control paths... by Penguinisto · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just curious if they'll send takedown notices on the takedown notices on the... well, you know. After all, Google may have to append the original notice on the 2nd one so everyone knows what's being referred to...

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  11. Re:DUH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I love the smell of recursion in the morning.

  12. Re:DUH! by overlordofmu · · Score: 1, Funny

    Me too! It smells like the smell of recursion in the morning, in the morning.

    (Can someone refactor that to make it tail recursive?)