Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices

another random user sends this excerpt from the BBC: "Two film studios have asked Google to take down links to messages sent by them requesting the removal of links connected to film piracy. Google receives 20 million 'takedown' requests, officially known as DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notices, every month. They are all published online. Recent submissions by Fox and Universal Studios include requests for the removal of previous takedown notices. ... By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts. 'It would only take one skilled coder to index the URLs from the DMCA notices in order to create one of the largest pirate search engines available,' wrote Torrent Freak editor Ernesto Van Der Sar on the site."

Barbara Streisand effect...

[dmgxmichael]

Again. A pity the first amendment doesn't apply to corporations.

Not raaaaaiiiiiiiiiaaaaain on your wedding day...

[Anonymous Coward]

By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts.

See, Alanis, *this* is ironic.

Wait a minute

[Anonymous Coward]

Was that a comment or a request for a development project?

Yo, I heard you like the DMCA...

[Arancaytar]

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Re:it is as we have feared.

[j00r0m4nc3r]

Now we just need to convince them to take themselves down. Is it wrong to coerce suicide in an artificial lifeform?

We are going to start an endless loop....

[ctrl-alt-canc]

Now they will send to Slashdot a takedown notice to take down the message about the takedown request they sent to google to take down the list of their takedown requests....

Re:Not raaaaaiiiiiiiiiaaaaain on your wedding day.

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

"It's like a million Dancing With The Stars, when all you want is Doctor Who..."

Re:it is as we have feared.

[JeanCroix]

Wrong? Pfft. Not only is it right, but it can be an artform. Let's get the master to do it - bring in Shatner.

Re:Actually, meta-Streisand

[nugatory78]

if you can pull off all three at the same time, that grants you the power up of mega-Streisand

Actually, mecha-Streisand

[Anonymous Coward]

And what actually is "mega-Streisand"?
Don't you mean mecha-Streisand?

'MPAATakedwn=': recursive on all control paths...

[Penguinisto]

I'm just curious if they'll send takedown notices on the takedown notices on the... well, you know. After all, Google may have to append the original notice on the 2nd one so everyone knows what's being referred to...

Re:DUH!

[Anonymous Coward]

I love the smell of recursion in the morning.

Re:DUH!

[overlordofmu]

Me too! It smells like the smell of recursion in the morning, in the morning.

(Can someone refactor that to make it tail recursive?)