HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player

another random user writes with an excerpt from TorrentFreak: "It's no secret that copyright holders are trying to take down as much pirated content as they can, but their targeting of open source software is something new. In an attempt to remove pirated copies of Game of Thrones from the Internet, HBO sent a DMCA takedown to Google, listing a copy of the popular media player VLC as a copyright infringement. An honest mistake, perhaps, but a worrying one. ... Usually these notices ask Google to get rid of links to pirate sites, but for some reason the cable network also wants Google to remove a link to the highly popular open source video player VLC. ... The same DMCA notice also lists various other links that don't appear to link to HBO content, including a lot of porn related material, Ben Harper's album Give Till It's Gone, Naruto, free Java applets and Prince of Persia 5."

Comments

I own the rights to the letter E on line

[Joe_Dragon]

I own the rights to the letter E on line

So Google better take down all links with an E in them.

Re:I own the rights to the letter E on line

[PPH]

That's Googl.

Re:Easy solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Each link to material they do not own 100'000 USD to the target of the takedown notice and the same to the actual copyright holder. Alternatively, 30 days in jail for the executive in charge.

I'd be OK with that except that there is a URL for "Freddy Got Fingered" in there and I sure as hell don't want to encourage the copyright holder of that gem with $100,000 in free money...

Re:AHAHA, what?

[GameboyRMH]

VLC? Shitty!? You must be a mac user upset that it didn't have a minimalistic interface filled with silly skeumorphisms.

Re:Google vs HBO? Not even close

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks, I read it as Good For You, and was having trouble making sense of the post.

Re:Even now

[Andrio]

Oblig comic:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

Re:Perjury.

[Zordak]

Dude, you just put your name on the NSA watch list. "Regicide" has been a trigger word since Obama's 2011 Secret Executive Order 489382.19, declaring himself King of the Union For Life, and secretly changing our official name to the Holy Obaman Empire. There was a challenge to it from Congressional Republicans, who preferred Holy Reaganian Empire, but the FISA court smacked them down and declared the order constitutional. You really ought to catch up on your Coast to Coast AM backlog one of these days.

Re:looks like copy paste fail

[PRMan]

I hear the next episode is going to be called: "AnyDVD HD"