Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia

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 Ernestoi -  3 December 2012 - torrentfreak

In what is by far the greatest DMCA mess we’ve ever witnessed, several major movie studios have seemingly asked Google to take down legitimate copies of their own films. Through an agent the studios further requested the search engine to remove their official Facebook pages and Wikipedia entries, as well as movie reviews in prominent newspapers. Has the world gone mad or…?

Ever since Google announced that it would publish the DMCA requests it receives as part of their transparency report, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof.

While the majority of the requests are legitimate there are also occasional mistakes, often caused by automated filters. To some degree this is understandable, but the examples we present today are so off the chart that the people responsible should really reconsider their

Early November a few dozen DMCA notices were sent on behalf of several major movie studios. While this is nothing new by itself, the number of mistakes in these notices are stunning. We will discuss a few of them below.

Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, BBC Films, Summit Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures

Interestingly enough, they above examples were all sent by an outfit called “Yes It Is – No Piracy!” which we’ve never heard of before.

Whatever the case, the above once again shows the danger of automated DMCA notices that are sent out without any type of verification. Right now rightsholders and the anti-piracy outfits they employ have absolutely no incentive to improve the accuracy of their takedown systems.

Perhaps it’s time for them to be punished?

https://torrentfreak.com/movie-studios-ask-google-to-censor-their-own-films-facebook-and-wikipedia-121203/

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[ppiklapp]

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[horusfalcon]

The yesits link leads to a dead page advertising for GoDaddy.

Ironic, isn't it?

This whole DMCA (Dumb Movie Company A$$holes) business is just too sad for words.

I get that movies cast a lot to make - I really do (we have a strong movie industry presence where I work).  I get that they would be opposed to piracy cutting into their secondary sales streams (streaming video, pay-per-view, DVD, and BD sales, etc.).  What I don't get is making the cure much worse than the disease.

Annnnd that's all I'll say about it before I violate the rules about political speech here.

Folding up my soapbox now...

Later On,
D

[ppiklapp]

This whole thing reminds me of the uproar over people taping songs off the radio back in the 70's and 80's.  They didn't get much traction then and probably are ending up with less now.  I understand that they want to be paid, but that is the price of doing business.  No business is 100% crook proof.  People walk out of Wal-Mart on a hourly basis with stuff they didn't pay for, but I don't see lawyers lining up from Wal-Mart and the corportations that sell through Wally World to sue the offenders.

[kjpetrie]

This is the inevitable result of trying to make copyright a public rather than private matter. It's difficult for a third party to know what has or hasn't got permission.

As I've said before, it's as much an infringement of my copyright to interfere with a legitimate copy as it is to make an unauthorised one. There needs to be some balance here.