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Google asked to remove 100,000 'pirate links' every hour
- orionblastar 11y agoSome of the "pirate links" are competitors to bigger corporations that have competing products and services. The DMCA is used to censor small companies and bully other companies. The same thing happens with Youtube Videos, you use a scene from a movie or sound from a movie or song and get a DMCA takedown notice and your video is gone. Not the whole movie or song just a small part of it via fair use, if there is a fair use anymore. A friend of mine used a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey where Dave Bowman is removing memory storage from HAL 9000 and used a text to speech program to speak instead of having the movie dialog speaking someone's essay manifesto pretending to be HAL 9000. That video got a DMCA takedown notice as well.
- developer2 11y agoI find the whole process to be hilariously ineffective. 1. Search Google for any movie name followed by "free online". The first page of results are all pirated streaming sites, and they work. So, what did the takedowns accomplish? Exactly nothing. 2. Right at the bottom of the first page of results is a link to LumenDatabase.org with the list of all URLs removed. So even the URLs which were "removed" from Google results were simply relocated beneath a single additional click from Google's search results. The whole thing is just a waste of resources. It doesn't even cause a dent.
- herbst 11y agoIn switzerland its enough to google a movie title and the first results are usually streaming sites, even before IMDB.