Authored by: dio gratia on Friday, August 10 2012 @ 08:25 PM EDT |
Then there's
Google Caves To Hollywood Pressure: Will Now Punish Sites That Get Lots Of
'Valid' DMCA Notices.
Relying on take down notices seems so much like
group sourced censorship. We saw how a large number of 'legitimate' providers
of content on MegaUpload were cut off from their content by the government's
collusion with the MPAA et. al. Then there's NASA having access to their own
video cut off by take down notice on YouTube.
Giving an inch isn't a win for
Google. It's driving culture elsewhere, which when you contemplate walled
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT |
Will Google also downgrade the sites of companies that issue fraudulent
DMCA notices?
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 05:00 PM EDT |
Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal
in our
rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we
receive for any given site.
[emphasis added]
Google - Inside Search
Now let's not think about whether
a takedown
request sent to Google in respect of a third party site can be
valid. Google is pretty sure they don't
have any right or duty to "takedown",
they're merely downgrading the rankings. But Google's gonna
have to dig a
lotta dirt to find out if if the third party is infringing before they downgrade
it. Here's
how much
dirt
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