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Tell HN: Massive abuse of Google's DMCA process
A seemingly legal copyright enforcement company has been employing some very shady tactics for the past few years.
They spider the entire website, and submit the crawled links to Google for removal in small batches. Now, what they're doing is without the question of a doubt illegal. But due to the sheer amount of notices they send out, at least 50% of them will go through just fine. I'm talking tens of millions of removed pages.
Considering that subtlety is not one of my strong suits. I'll be blunt: Does Google even care that a few shady guys are manipulating SERP's and costing them resources probably better spent elsewhere.
I guess it's something to think about.
- blcArmadillo 9y agoJust for clarification are you saying they submit all the pages on a website whether that page contains infringed content or not and leave it up to Google to determine if it actually does?
- throwaway118822 9y agoCorrect. If they actually reported infringing content, there wouldn't be an issue to begin with.
- nyolfen 9y agois it a reputation management service, or does it appear to be acting in a way that aligns with one?
- throwaway1181 9y agoIs this Entrua International? They are scumbags and I hope somebody fights back
- arikr 9y agoMaybe worth including some contact information e.g. an anonymous email so if someone from Google sees they can reach you