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| Aug 17, 2026 | X Published Brazil’s Election Censorship Filter in Code; India’s Secrecy Law Prevents This | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Aug 17 2026, 9:53 AM EDT
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| Aug 13, 2026 | UK Piracy Blocklist Secretly Grew for Months; Cloudflare Accidentally Exposed Court Order | By William Chan
Published: Aug 13 2026, 10:57 AM EDT
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| Apr 9, 2026 | Someone Filed a Bogus DMCA Notice to Kill a Story About A Sketchy SEO Firm. It Worked — Briefly. | We’ve talked for years about how the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown system is ripe for abuse. The legal structure of the law practically begs for such abuse: send a notice, content disappears, and the target has to fight through a slow counter-... |
| Apr 29, 2025 | The Censorship Conundrum: A Dangerous Dance with Power | In the heart of American democracy, a storm brews. The winds of censorship howl louder than ever. Two recent developments highlight this unsettling trend: the rise of FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr and the controversial Take It Down Act. Bot... |
| Apr 28, 2025 | Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act | Here’s a puzzle: How do you write a law that’s so badly designed that (1) the people it’s meant to help oppose it, (2) the people who hate regulation support it, and (3) everyone involved admits it will be abused? The answer, it turns out, ... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned | During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: “And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I d... |
| Dec 27, 2024 | It’s Doubtful United Healthcare Is Abusing The DMCA To Takedown Luigi Mangione Apparel, But Someone Is | I had seen this story before Christmas making the rounds on Bluesky, claiming that United Healthcare had sent DMCA takedowns to Teepublic to remove artist Rachel Kenaston’s illustration of Luigi Magione, the guy arrested for shooting and ki... |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Take It Down Act Has Best Of Intentions, Worst Of Mechanisms | You may have heard that the US government has a bit of a mess on its hands after House Speaker Mike Johnson worked out a somewhat carefully crafted compromise continuing resolution funding plan to keep the government open, only to have it c... |
| Aug 25, 2024 | ‘Bonus’ Episode of ‘House of the Dragon’ Comes With a Nasty Surprise for Pirates | “Game of Thrones” and its prequel “House of the Dragon” have proven very popular in pirate circles.
The fact that episodes repeatedly leaked before their official premieres made them even more appealing.
This summer, HBO released the second... |
| Aug 18, 2024 | Radiohead ‘Leaked’ Their Own Track in 2009, Now We’re Accused of Pirating It | If 2009 sounds like it happened half a lifetime ago, many 30 year-olds would likely agree.
At the time the UK government was taking advice from the entertainment industries on how to tackle surging piracy via the BitTorrent protocol.
Presen... |
| Jul 31, 2024 | IOC Sends Thousands of DMCA Notices to Deter ‘Olympics’ Piracy | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is known to be very protective of its intellectual property rights.
Using an image of the Olympic rings or even just the word ‘Olympic’ can lead to legal trouble, especially when use takes place in ... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Russia Slams Google’s ‘Censorship’ Yet Deleting 5.6m VPN Links is Just Fine | Those who have taken an interest in the words of Dmitry Peskov since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, will have noticed that Vladimir Putin’s press secretary is loyal, if nothing else.
In respect of his commentary on matters important to the K... |
| Jul 7, 2024 | Cloudflare Blocks Pirate Sites After Web Sheriff Filed Laundry List of Violations | Retelling a few funny stories about the early antics of Web Sheriff might be quite fun. At least until the realization that was around sixteen years ago when the internet wasn’t facing a serious threat of censorship and regulation.
So much ... |
| Jun 17, 2024 | Sony DMCA Notice Nukes 200 Aniyomi Extensions as Tachiyomi Fork Feels Heat | Whether it’s Hollywood movies, TV shows, music, or static publications such as books and magazines, millions of people are now very comfortable consuming content via apps.
In many cases, third-party apps simply act as a hub, utilizing conte... |
| Jun 13, 2024 | UEFA Targets Pirate EURO 2024 Live Streams Before They Start | UEFA is the international body that governs football throughout Europe.
As part of FIFA, the organization holds the rights to several major competitions and tournaments, including the Champions League and the European Championships.
These e... |
| May 2, 2024 | Google Removes Pirate IPTV Services From UK Search Results | The United Kingdom is no stranger to website blocking.
The High Court granted permission for a blockade against Newzbin2 in 2011; The Pirate Bay and numerous other targets were blocked soon after.
A rough inventory carried out by TorrentFre... |
| Apr 12, 2024 | Google Delisted Thousands of ‘Music Piracy’ Domains in Response to UK Blocking Orders | For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid.
This remnant of the SOPA defeat drove copyright holders to focus on blocking efforts in other countries instead.
Those challenging times... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Fake Entities Are Still Abusing The DMCA Takedown Process To Hide Facts They Don’t Like | The DMCA process remains as easily abused as ever, even as companies like Google (and, especially, Automattic) do what they can to head off this abuse.
It’s a numbers game. When you’re the size of Google, it’s impossible to vet every takedo... |
| Jan 28, 2024 | Disney ‘Cracks Down’ on Mickey Mouse ‘Steamboat Silly’ Pirates | For several decades, Disney has managed to keep the earliest footage of its iconic mouse protected.
Notably, the 1998 U.S. Copyright Term Extension Act, also dubbed the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, extended copyright protection to 95 years.... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | beIN Sports’ Football Piracy Blitz Adds Blocking to Domain Seizures | Perhaps more than any other broadcaster, beIN Sports understands the potential for piracy to spin out of control.
When a diplomatic crisis between Qatar and other Arab countries led to Saudi Arabia blocking the beIN service in 2017, beoutQ ... |
| Jan 8, 2024 | DAZN DMCA Notice Hits Pluto TV Playlist Linking to DAZN’s Own Streams | For people on a budget and even for those who are not, there’s a lot to like about free, ad-supported television; FAST for short.
Available via the internet on almost any device, streaming services like Pluto TV, Tubi, The Roku Channel, and... |
| 2024 | All DMCA Notices Filed Against TorrentFreak in 2023 Were Bogus | Any content creator who sees their work being used by unauthorized third-parties can file DMCA notices against platforms communicating that content to the public.
Platforms should respond by taking allegedly-infringing content down but in p... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA’s Artemis Towards Black Hole | There’s no question that content creators should have the ability and means to protect their work.
Those who rely on easily copied images to generate income face a stark choice; allow third-parties to illegally profit from illicit copies th... |
| Nov 25, 2023 | Google попросили не индексировать крупнейший репозиторий IPTV iptv-org | Испанская футбольная лига LaLiga потребовала от Google деиндексировать крупнейший в мире бесплатный репозиторий IPTV под названием iptv-org, включая ресурсы на GitHub.
iptv-org предлагает индекс потоков IPTV, уже свободно доступных в Интерн... |
| Nov 23, 2023 | Google Asked to Deindex iptv-org, The World’s Largest Free IPTV Repo | While premium IPTV services have built a reputation for beating legal platforms on both selection and price, they also cost at least some money to access.
Sites offering ‘IPTV for free’ can go either way, but thanks to so-called ‘FAST’ serv... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | YTMP3 Wants Google to Identify Alleged DMCA Fraudsters | The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down.
It’s a powerful tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. In most cases, this happens for a good reason, ... |
| Sep 29, 2023 | RIAA Ramps Up Efforts to Remove Music Download Apps from Google Play | Google’s Play Store offers a vast library of millions of apps, in pretty much every category imaginable.
Most of the software is perfectly legitimate but there are some problematic apps too, including those that can be abused by pirates.
Ov... |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Terminate Future Piracy? You’re Talking About Things I Haven’t Done Yet | “You’re talking about things I haven’t done yet, in the past tense. It’s driving me crazy. Are you sure you have the right person?”
Sarah Connor’s bewilderment in the 1984 masterpiece The Terminator is convincing. Important actions she was ... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Premier League Wins 2-Year Pirate IPTV Blocking Order as Sky Targets Identified | Last week the Financial Times reported that UK pay-TV broadcaster Sky had obtained a novel blocking injunction at the High Court in London.
The report claimed that the country’s leading ISPs will be required to block pirate IPTV services no... |
| Aug 1, 2023 | YTMP3 Sues Competitors for Sending Google Fraudulent DMCA Notices | The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down.
It is a powerful tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. In most cases, this happens for a good reason,... |
| Jul 27, 2023 | Sky Targets Sky Go & Now TV Decryption Key Software as Piracy Wars Continue | Sky has fought piracy mechanisms of all kinds over the years. From set-top box modifications to viewing card tampering, blocking, even full PC-based emulation, the pay TV company has seen it all.
Exploits that are relatively easy to pull of... |
| Jun 18, 2023 | Netflix and Amazon DMCA Notices Target Legal Streaming Options | Copyright holders send out millions of takedown notices a day, hoping to remove pirated content or make it harder to find.
The efficacy of the DMCA takedown process is open for debate, but it certainly doesn’t help when companies flag legal... |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Music Label Demands Google Delist A Wikipedia Page With Info It Doesn’t Like | In Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) there’s a chapter about the widely-used “notice and takedown” system, and its many abuses. One indicator of how bad things are, and how they are still getting worse, is the number... |
| May 28, 2023 | Music Company Asks Google to Delist ‘YouTube Downloader’ Wikipedia Article | A few years ago, the RIAA started targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google.
Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for allege... |
| May 14, 2023 | Anti-Piracy Outfit Wipes ACE’s ‘Watch Legally’ Page From Google | There’s no denying that the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has been rather successful over the past few years.
The anti-piracy group, which represents prominent rightsholders such as Apple, the BBC, Canal+, Disney, Sky, Net... |
| Apr 24, 2023 | Mojang Continues Crackdown on Minecraft ‘Pirates’ | Minecraft is unquestionably one of the most iconic and recognizable videogames of recent times.
The game was originally created by Markus “Notch” Persson, the founder of Mojang Studios, which continues to develop the software today.
In the ... |
| Apr 20, 2023 | YouTube Ripper Sends Cease and Desist to Google, Hoping to Stop DMCA Abuse | The DMCA takedown process allows copyright holders to report infringing content and have it removed or taken down.
It is a powerful tool that takes millions of URLs and links offline every day. In most cases, this happens for a good reason,... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Brazil’s Ministry of Justice Asks Google to Deindex Pirate Sites | Over the past few years, Brazil has worked hard to combat online piracy from various angles.
The “Operation 404” campaigns, in particular, have led to numerous takedowns and arrests with the most recent wave taking place last month.
Brazil’... |
| Apr 2, 2023 | Rightsholders Flag Official EU Website for Copyright Infringements | The European Union recognizes that online piracy poses a serious threat to copyright holders and the public at large.
In recent years, Europe has updated legislation to deal with modern piracy threats. This includes a requirement for large ... |
| Mar 26, 2023 | Major Publishers Mull Legal Action Against Pirate Ebook Platform | There’s something special about professionally produced textbooks. From the information inside to the tactile feel of the paper, textbooks can be items of beauty.
Unfortunately, reality rains on the parade more than just a little. Textbooks... |
| Mar 12, 2023 | Why Would ‘OpenAI’ Send ChatGPT Takedown Notices to Google? | ChatGPT has captured the imagination of millions of people, offering a glimpse of what an AI-assisted future might look like.
The new technology also brings up novel copyright questions. Several people are worried that their work is being u... |
| Mar 6, 2023 | Warner Fights Unreleased ‘Scooby-Doo And Krypto Too!’ Leaks | Most people born in the 1960s or later will be familiar with Scooby-Doo, the most recognized Great Dane in the world.
For those more advanced in years, think Enid Blyton’s Famous Five; four young people continuously run into mysteries and t... |
| Feb 12, 2023 | Anti-Piracy Outfits Target TorrentFreak in PikaShow Crackdown | Day in and day out, millions of people use pirate sites and services to download or stream movies and TV shows.
In recent years, a large percentage of this activity has taken place through apps that run on Android, the dominant operating sy... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | ‘Elon Musk’ Sends Hundreds of Takedown Requests to Protect Precious Memes | Elon Musk is not only one of the smartest and richest people on the planet, he’s also a passionate meme connoisseur.
A few months ago we covered a Musk-approved meme which suggested that piracy may start to appeal again as the legal streami... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Big Brother: TV Channel Staff Told to Report Password Sharers For Piracy | First broadcast in the Netherlands back in 1999, reality TV show ‘Big Brother’ is now a global franchise spanning more than 60 countries.
Big Brother Brazil (BBB) is one of the most successful regional variants. Right now, BBB23 is live on ... |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Police Complaint Removes Pirate Bay Proxy Portal from GitHub | By now, various courts around the world have concluded that The Pirate Bay is a copyright-infringing website.
In response to various court orders over the years, the notorious torrent site was blocked by dozens of ISPs all around the world.... |
| Jan 2, 2023 | LaLiga: Court Orders Google to Wipe IPTV Smarters Pro From Play Store | Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga has been waging war against pirate sites and services for the past several years.
In common with the UK’s Premier League and Serie A in Italy, LaLiga focuses on unlicensed live-streaming platforms tha... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Google Removes Hundreds of Domains to Aid French Sports Piracy Crackdown | At the start of this year, a French bill went into effect that sanctioned the formation of a new regulatory body.
The old HADOPI anti-piracy outfit merged with the Higher Audiovisual Council, creating the Audiovisual and Digital Communicati... |
| Oct 9, 2022 | European Union Imposter Uses Russia Sanctions to Target ‘Escape from Tarkov’ | Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in thousands of tragic deaths while millions of people have been forced to flee their homes.
While soldiers risk their lives on the battlefield, an information war is raging around the world. More t... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Indie Record Label Leads Crackdown on YouTube Downloaders | Three years ago, the RIAA began targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google.
Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged ... |
| Aug 28, 2022 | Dash the Iranian: Busted Pirate IPTV Kingpin Allegedly Owns RapidIPTV | Publicizing the closure of a big pirate service, the arrest of its operators, and the seizure of their assets, is a golden opportunity to discourage future crime by practical example.
It doesn’t matter how successful you are, you will be ca... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Google Delists Hundreds of Pirate Bay Domains From UK Search Results | Last year, we noticed that Google had delisted several popular pirate sites from its search results in some countries.
In the Netherlands, for example, The Pirate Bay and many of its mirrors and proxies were delisted by Google in response t... |
| May 24, 2022 | Copyright As Censorship: Abuse Of The DMCA To Try To Delete Online News Is Rampant | Online platforms often give access to digital material that is under copyright. If any of that content is infringing, then potentially the platform would be liable as well as the person who uploaded it. Online companies naturally want to be... |
| May 18, 2022 | Spain slaps Google for frustrating the EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ | Here’s a rare sight: Google has been hit with a €10 million fine by Spain for serious breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which found it had passed information that could be used to identify citizens r... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Flickr Will Mass-Delete a Bunch of Free Users’ Photos Next Month | Flickr is one of the most long-lived and well-established photo-storing websites, hosting billions of free photos since its creation in 2004. This time next month, it's going to be a lot smaller.
Flickr is currently set to start enforcing a... |
| Apr 14, 2022 | Police Shut ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’, 3 Arrested For Copyright Infringement | Created by New Horizon Interactive, massively multiplayer online game (MMO) Club Penguin first opened to the public in 2005.
Its Antarctic-themed virtual world, inhabited by players’ penguin avatars, proved incredibly popular and two years ... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Sci-Hub Only Option For Academics In Russia After Major Publishers Pull Out | While historical and geopolitical ambitions sit at the heart of the war in Ukraine, cynical disinformation and denial of knowledge allowed it to happen and now fuel its momentum.
When used responsibly, the internet should provide mechanisms... |
| Apr 2, 2022 | RIAA Targets Popular YouTube Ripper With 60 Million Monthly Visits | After more than two decades of declining fortunes, 2021 was a blockbuster year for global recorded music revenues.
With a growth of 18.5% on the previous year and revenues of $25.9 billion, 2021 marked a return to levels last witnessed pre-... |
| Apr 2, 2022 | 4 ideas for understanding and managing the power of algorithms on social media | Dean Eckles (upper left), a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, moderated a conversation with Daphne Keller, director of platform regulation at Stanford University, and Kartik Hosanagar, director of AI for Business at Wharton, ... |
| Mar 27, 2022 | YouTube Needs a Copyright Specialist To Handle ‘High-Risk’ Takedowns | Those wanting to learn how many DMCA notices have been sent to Google over the past few years need look no further than the copyright section of its vast and constantly updated Transparency Report.
This colossal database contains informatio... |
| Mar 26, 2022 | Oscar Contender Targets Official Oscars Website With a DMCA Takedown Notice | The Oscars are the most prestigious film awards and millions of movie fans are looking forward to seeing who the new winners will be.
For filmmakers, it’s an incredible honor to be named among the world’s greatest. Even being nominated is a... |
| Mar 20, 2022 | YouTube Rippers Ask Google to Remove ‘Copycats’ From Search Results | Every day millions of people use YouTube rippers, tools that are often used to download music for free.
The music industry is not happy with these services. Stream-ripping is viewed as the largest piracy problem, one that’s more serious tha... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Google Removes YouTube Rippers from UK Search Results | Last year, the UK music industry claimed a major victory in its fight against online piracy.
Following a two-year process initiated by the British Recorded Music Industry Ltd (BPI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), the High Court orde... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion | Between 2011 and 2013, protests took place in Russia in response to allegations of election-rigging and a lack of civil liberties in Russia.
The protests were targeted at Vladimir Putin so, in return, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | Google Removed ‘Blocked’ Pirate Sites From UK Search Results | A few weeks ago we noticed that Google had removed several popular pirate sites from its search results.
It started with The Pirate Bay in the Netherlands. The controversial torrent site and many of its mirrors and proxies were deindexed by... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | Pirate Bay e canal do Telegram sobre IPTV pirata são ocultados pelo Google Brasil | O Google Brasil ocultou o Pirate Bay e mais de 200 domínios piratas para usuários brasileiros que acessam sua ferramenta de pesquisa. O buscador cumpriu uma ordem judicial do Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública (MJSP) de junho de 2021... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | Google ‘Censors’ The Pirate Bay and Other Pirate Domains in Several Countries | Copyright holders have tried a variety of measures to curb copyright infringement over the years, with varying levels of success.
Site blocking has emerged as one of the preferred solutions. While these measures are not foolproof, the gener... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | Google Blocked An Article About Police From The Intercept... Because The Title Included A Phrase That Was Also A Movie Title | A week before Christmas, Radley Balko published a typically excellent story about the police chief in Little Rock, Arkansas, Keith Humphrey. It's a good story, and you should read it. Humphrey, who was appointed police chief as part of a re... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | Google Blocked An Article About Police From The Intercept… Because The Title Included A Phrase That Was Also A Movie Title | A week before Christmas, Radley Balko published a typically excellent story about the police chief in Little Rock, Arkansas, Keith Humphrey. It’s a good story, and you should read it. Humphrey, who was appointed police chief as part of a re... |
| Dec 19, 2021 | Fakku Sends DMCA Takedown Request Targeting TorrentFreak | When Fakku launched 15 years ago, it was an aggregator for unlicensed scanlations of adult manga, also known as hentai.
The site’s founder, Jacob Grady, studied computer science in Massachusetts at the time and used student loans to pay the... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Faulty DMCA Takedown Notice Makes American TV Network Unfindable in Google | Regular readers will be familiar with the cloud storage platform Mega, but Mega.tv might not ring a bell right away.
Mega.tv is a relatively small free-to-air TV station with headquarters in Miami and Puerto Rico. The company is owned by Sp... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results Citing Dutch Court Order | While search engines are extremely helpful for the average Internet user, copyright holders also see a massive downside.
The fact that infringing sites show up in search results has become a source of frustration and Google has been asked t... |
| Nov 21, 2021 | Piracy Reporter Retracts Takedown Notices After Misconfiguration Targets Legitimate Sites | The UK piracy tracking firm MUSO has quite a balanced view on the piracy problem, framing it as an opportunity rather than a threat.
MUSO believes that by understanding what motivates pirates, copyright holders can gain great insights that ... |
| Oct 24, 2021 | Bizarre DMCA Takedown Notices Come with Prison Threat | Over the years we have seen our fair share of bizarre DMCA takedown notices, but we continue to be surprised by new schemes.
This week we can add another to the list, one that has some serious threats attached.
The notices in question were ... |
| Oct 17, 2021 | Anti-Piracy Outfits Still Target Pirate Sites That Shut Down Years Ago | Over the past decades, hundreds of popular ‘pirate’ sites have come and gone. This includes the likes of isoHunt, ExtraTorrent, and KickassTorrents.
These shutdowns have a serious impact but, as time passes, estranged users eventually move ... |
| Sep 19, 2021 | DMCA Takedown Errors Can Make it Harder to Find Movies Legally | The purpose of search engines is to help people find what they are looking for. Today’s web would be pretty much unusable without them.
This urge to search also comes with a downside, as not everything on the web is posted with permission. ... |
| Sep 18, 2021 | Google требует удалить google-документы со списками «Умного голосования» [Обновлено 08:12 по МСК — доступ закрыт] | Google потребовала у сторонников Навального удалить два документа Google Docs, содержащих списки «Умного голосования». Требование представлено в виде письма от команды Google. Запрос на блокировку также опубликован на сайте Lumen.
Согласно ... |
| Sep 15, 2021 | Toronto Film Festival Asks Google to Remove Links to Leaked Netflix Screeners | Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voter for review.
Some of these copies end up in the hands of pirates and are subsequently published online. This includes screeners of potentia... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Russia Tries To Block VPN Providers, Troubles Hit BitTorrent & Multiple Online Services | For the past several years as part of the country’s website blocking efforts, Russian authorities have warned that VPN providers could be next on the list.
The problem according to Russia is that these services can provide access to materia... |
| Sep 2, 2021 | ‘Fraudulent’ DMCA Circumvention Takedowns Target Prominent Websites | Over the past few years, copyright holders have asked Google to remove billions of links to allegedly pirated content.
Most of these DMCA notices point to infringing material but occasionally mistakes are made, which can do serious harm. Ev... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Fake ‘U.S. Copyright Office’ Sends Takedown Notices to Google | The U.S. Copyright Office is seen as the authority on intellectual property issues in the United States.
Just a few months ago, the Government body released a thorough review of the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions, to see if these can be impr... |
| Aug 22, 2021 | TorrentFreak News Article Targeted by Dubious ‘DRM Circumvention Complaint | At TorrentFreak, we have written hundreds of articles about dubious takedown notices. Today, we find ourselves at the center of another one.
Earlier this week the ‘American Society of Composers’ sent a series of “DRM Circumvention” complain... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Google Delisted Hundreds of Thousands of URLs to Comply with Russian ‘VPN Law’ | Over the past several years, Russia has introduced various anti-piracy laws and regulations that focus on the role of online intermediaries.
App stores are required to take strict action against ‘pirate’ apps, search engines must swiftly bl... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Mass Bogus DMCA Takedowns Impersonate Reddit to Attack Downloading Tools | Earlier this week the popular Reddit downloading bot ‘SaveVideo’ unexpectedly threw in the towel.
According to early reports from the operator of the service, which in part operated from RedditSave.com, Reddit sent a rather aggressive copyr... |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Toomics Reports Its Own Website for Copyright Infringements | Every other week we take a casual look at the various takedown requests companies such as Google and Twitter receive.
The vast majority of the notices are valid and point to pirated material, but mistakes are certainly not hard to find.
The... |
| Jun 28, 2021 | Twitter Suspends India’s Minister of Communications After Sony DMCA Notice | People who post content created by other people to platforms like Twitter run the risk being accused of copyright infringement. In response, Twitter can choose to suspend or even ban accounts entirely.
These events are relatively common and... |
| Jun 25, 2021 | Triller Sues Scam Streaming Site AccessTVPro For Jake Paul Fight Piracy | Over the past few months Triller has filed a series of lawsuits against people who allegedly copied, streamed, or otherwise distributed the Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren PPV fight.
The company has amassed a broad range of targets.
In addition to... |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Windows 11 Leak DMCA Violation: Microsoft Request Google to Remove it From Search Results | Teejay Boris, Tech Times 20 June 2021, 08:06 am
The Windows 11 Leak is now in hot water after Microsoft reportedly complained about it to Google. The company alleges that it violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA.
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| Jun 20, 2021 | Microsoft fights back against Windows 11 leak | Just a few days ago -- before it has even been officially announced -- Windows 11 leaked online and remains available to download from numerous sites. The Windows 11 ISO torrent spread like wildfire, and now Microsoft is fighting back.
The ... |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Windows 11: Microsoft Slowly Starts Taking Down Leaked ISO | Earlier this week, a copy of the next version of Windows leaked onto the web.
Known officially as Windows 11, the leaked copy is a pre-beta version but that hasn’t stopped tech sites publishing mini reviews, assessing everything from its vi... |
| Jun 13, 2021 | ‘Web Sheriff’ Targets Ubuntu.com URLs With Overbroad Takedown Notices | The Web Sheriff, founded by copyright lawyer John Giacobbi, has protected the Internet from pirates for more than two decades.
In the early days, Giacobbi became somewhat of a cult figure thanks to his polite style and trademarked letterhea... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | Twitter restricts accounts in India to comply with government legal request | Twitter disclosed on Monday that it blocked four accounts in India to comply with a new legal request from the Indian government.
The American social network disclosed on Lumen Database, a Harvard University project, that it took action on ... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | Anti-Piracy Outfits Target Anti-Piracy Company With Questionable DMCA Takedowns | As a veteran in the anti-piracy business, the CoPeerRight Agency has witnessed many online piracy threats come and go.
When the company first started, LimeWire was the largest threat. This was later replaced by torrent sites, and today, pir... |
| May 31, 2021 | DMCA Notice Targets TorrentFreak, Netflix, and Reddit’s Wikipedia Pages | Over the past several years, copyright holders have asked Google to remove billions of links to allegedly pirated content.
Most of these DMCA notices are pretty accurate. However, we keep stumbling on glaring errors, which are often hard to... |
| May 21, 2021 | If There's A Defamatory Review On Yelp, Is It Google's Job To Hide It? | One point that we keep trying to make in the various debates about content moderation and Section 230 in particular is that the second you give people a legal method through which they can seek to remove unflattering information from the in... |
| May 21, 2021 | If There's A Defamatory Review On Yelp, Is It Google's Job To Hide It? | One point that we keep trying to make in the various debates about content moderation and Section 230 in particular is that the second you give people a legal method through which they can seek to remove unflattering information from the in... |
| May 4, 2021 | Twitter cracks down on Bollywood star Kangana Ranaut — here's why it's significant in the debate over free speech on social media | Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account, KanganaTeam, has permanently been suspended.
The move came after the Bollywood actress rolled out tweets addressing the alleged violence in West Bengal, one which involved Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mod... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Proctorio Is Doubling Down On Lawsuits Against Its Critics | Legal battles between controversial exam surveillance company Proctorio and its critics accelerated this week, as the company sought to expand its lawsuit against a Canadian educator while simultaneously being sued by a student for waging a... |
| Apr 24, 2021 | India orders Twitter to take down tweets critical of its coronavirus handling | Twitter has taken down dozens of tweets in India, some of which were critical of New Delhi’s handling of the coronavirus, to comply with an emergency order from the Indian government at a time when South Asian nation is grappling with a glo... |