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Google Says Almost Every Recent 'Trusted' DMCA Notices Were Bogus (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the waste-of-everyone's-time dept.

Reader AmiMoJo writes: In comments submitted to a U.S. Copyright Office consultation, Google has given the DMCA a vote of support, despite widespread abuse. Noting that the law allows for innovation and agreements with content creators, Google says that 99.95% of URLs it was asked to take down last month didn't even exist in its search indexes. "For example, in January 2017, the most prolific submitter submitted notices that Google honored for 16,457,433 URLs. But on further inspection, 16,450,129 (99.97%) of those URLs were not in our search index in the first place."

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  1. Re:It seems obvious that... by Mashiki · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well if companies decided to start charging them because of the number of false claims, this problem would likely fix itself in the span of a couple of weeks. You can bet some company would stomp their feet and take it to court, and the court would likely agree that with the high percentage of false claims that the company has a reasonable expectation to recoup losses from false claims.

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  2. Re:It seems obvious that... by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nobody is making the claim that the URLs are non-existent, simply that Google has not indexed them. I'd imagine a lot of copyright infringing file sharing sites have a robots.txt that blocks Google et al to keep them under the radar.

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  3. Re:What is the benefit? by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nothing. But the URLs are not non-existent, just not indexed by Google, probably due to a robots.txt blocking access to the sites concerned.

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