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> Submitting DMCA takedown notices for thousands of URLs to Google is easier than you think. You just have to fill out a DMCA form available on Google’s website
by josefx 5y ago
> Submitting DMCA takedown notices for thousands of URLs to Google is easier than you think. You just have to fill out a DMCA form available on Google’s website and you can include 1000 URLs in each notice. The form includes a text field which accepts 1000 URLs at once.
> But if you want to submit a counter DMCA notice, you have to submit one URL at a time. Submitting over 3,000 URLs took us over 15 hours – while it would have taken the scammer a few minutes to submit those URLs.
Now if that design isn't intentionally abusive on Googles part. I think it at least qualifies as a dark pattern.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> Now if that design isn't intentionally abusive on Googles part. It's the end result of a generation of copyright corruption. Google found more profit and less headache in yielding to the harmful systems (regulatory, etc) crafted by copyright cartels.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y agoViacom is originator of this, this is why Google have that 1k URLs for DMCA takedown due to Viacom vs Google (2012) lawsuit. After that, copyrights and trolls massively abused DMCA due to this.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoIf the inference here is that this (or a similar) abuse-ridden system wouldn't exist in the absence of Viacom, I offer that there's more than enough powerful, corrupt copyright interests to fill that theoretical void.
- cmeacham98 5y agoI agree, but in our world, where Viacom does exist, we can put most of the blame on them.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoIgnoring the harm done by politicians, purchased by copyright lobbying orgs, is kind of how we got here.
- blunte 5y agoAnd google has enough money and power to fight to reverse this situation. But that would only result in good for the world, not revenue for G.
- colordrops 5y agoWe need some evidence that viacom is responsible for the 1000 vs 1 at a time submission disparity, otherwise this is 100% on Google.
- boplicity 5y agoAs a micro-business owner, I have benefited tremendously by the ease of sending takedown notices. If anything, there are strong arguments that the system is heavily skewed towards empowering small players.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> there are strong arguments that the system is heavily skewed towards empowering small players. This would carry more weight if there meaningfully enforced penalties against those who routinely file bogus DMCA claims.
- pram 5y agoNot to mention I've submitted multiple counter requests in the past. No response, and they're still hidden in Google search like 7 years later.