There's been a long-running effort by the copyright lobby to muzzle Chilling Effects. Participants in that effort include Sony, Disney, NBCUniversal, Viacom, BS

There's been a long-running effort by the copyright lobby to muzzle Chilling Effects. Participants in that effort include Sony, Disney, NBCUniversal, Viacom, BSA, Universal Music, the Entertainment Software Association, and two of my previous employers (before I left to found http://recent.io/ http://recent.io/), CBS and TimeWarner. They're all members of the Copyright Alliance, which has previously had this to say about Chilling Effects: The activities of chillingeffects.org are repugnant to the purposes of Section 512. Data collected by high-volume recipients of DMCA notices such as Google, and senders of DMCA notices such as trade associations representing the film and music industries demonstrate that the overwhelming majority of DMCA notices sent are legitimate, yet the site unfairly maligns artists and creators using the legal process created by Section 512 as proponents of censorship. Moreover, by publishing the personal contact information of the creators sending notices (a practice which Chilling Effects only recently discontinued), it subjects creators to harassment and personal attacks for seeking to exercise their legal rights. Finally, because the site does not redact information about the infringing URLs identified in the notices, it has effectively become the largest repository of URLs hosting infringing content on the internet. (https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140317/11355726599/copyright-alliance-attacks-chilling-effects-clearinghouse-argues-dmca-system-with-no-public-accountability.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140317/11355726599/copyr...) It would be interesting to know how much influence the copyright lobby has had on Chilling Effects' decision to self-censor. For now, though, if Chilling Effects has chosen to remove itself from search engines, then presumably some enterprising soul might want to mirror the takedown notices posted on that site. That would continue to shed light on abuses of copyright, such as the demands recently made to get Github pages yanked from search engines. Note it's often copyright lobby lawyers sending these takedown nastygrams, and those lawyers could claim their letters are copyrighted (and, I suppose, even try to get search engines to de-index the mirror site). While they have been unwilling to sue Harvard, Berkeley, and Stanford law schools, they may be more likely to sue an individual running a mirror site, even if that lawsuit were spurious. So if such a mirror site were to be created, it might make sense for it to be hosted overseas where the local law permits and operated by someone living overseas. The domain chilledeffects.org is available...