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When I've searched for content that falls under a DMCA takedown there is usually a link to the original DMCA notice at chillingeffects at the bottom of the goog

by iaw 14y ago

When I've searched for content that falls under a DMCA takedown there is usually a link to the original DMCA notice at chillingeffects at the bottom of the google page. In theory shouldn't all the take down notices include the URL that was de-listed? So how hard would it be to take a search term, run it through google, look at all the DMCA results at chilling effect that are linked, parse out the original offending URL and result Title, then reconstruct something close to what would have been the pre-DMCA search result? Is googlewithoutdmca.com available? I'm not going to pursue this. If anyone wants to pick it up, knock yourself out.

nostromo 14y ago
Cool idea, but I don't think it's possible. I just Googled "hobbit torrent" -- there were 5 DMCA notices at the bottom of the page -- so far, so good. The problem is a single DMCA complaint contains thousands of URLs for many movies (ex: http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=709810 http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=709810). To reconstruct the page with these results would require Google revealing which of the thousands of urls was actually withheld.
- iaw 14y ago
  I think it's possible, just a bit too hard to make it a quick "piss off the RIAA" project. Instead of merely parsing out the URLs it would require linking the infringing titles at the top to the URLs below. I would do a first pass that tries to compare the URL string to the infringing content. The second pass would cURL all of the yet to be identified URLs and then parse it for content that would link it back to the infringing content titles. I'd actually expect the page titles to contain the infringing content title most of the time (also there's probably a small number of sites that account for 90% of the takedown notices). This all leads me to another thought : what's to stop someone from parsing all the DMCA takedown URLs for the content they contain and then generating a search engine for them. Legality for US citizens would be minimal here at best but not all of us are from the US.
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by iaw 14y ago

nostromo 14y ago

Cool idea, but I don't think it's possible. I just Googled "hobbit torrent" -- there were 5 DMCA notices at the bottom of the page -- so far, so good. The problem is a single DMCA complaint contains thousands of URLs for many movies (ex: http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=709810 http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=709810). To reconstruct the page with these results would require Google revealing which of the thousands of urls was actually withheld.

iaw 14y ago
I think it's possible, just a bit too hard to make it a quick "piss off the RIAA" project. Instead of merely parsing out the URLs it would require linking the infringing titles at the top to the URLs below. I would do a first pass that tries to compare the URL string to the infringing content. The second pass would cURL all of the yet to be identified URLs and then parse it for content that would link it back to the infringing content titles. I'd actually expect the page titles to contain the infringing content title most of the time (also there's probably a small number of sites that account for 90% of the takedown notices). This all leads me to another thought : what's to stop someone from parsing all the DMCA takedown URLs for the content they contain and then generating a search engine for them. Legality for US citizens would be minimal here at best but not all of us are from the US.

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