Film Studios Send Takedown Notices About Takedown Notices 197
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."
Sorry, the law doesn't work that way (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm sorry but even the government is getting their hand slapped over secret proceedings (see the recent rulings regarding national security letters), there's no way we're going to allow companies to hide their actions in a civil matter.
Re:Sorry, the law doesn't work that way (Score:5, Insightful)
we? "what's this we shit, white man?"
'we' have stopped having control over our laws decades ago.
'they' have control and everyone knows it. you been asleep or something?
This was done by accident? (Score:5, Insightful)
By making the notices available, Google is unintentionally highlighting the location of allegedly pirated material, say some experts.
I thought that was kind of the whole point of the things being posted?
Re:Barbara Streisand effect... (Score:4, Insightful)
And the biggest pity of all is that you think you will be actually allowed to get that kind of presidential candidate in the first place.
More Likely (Score:4, Insightful)
The Movie industry does not want it known how active they are at sending take down notices. After all the price we all pay for movies goes up as there effort to do this sort of activity goes up. The 'take down tax'.
There is also the big brother bad guy protecting their profit against the little guy public relations problem. They certainly would like all that take down to happen behind the scenes where no one notices.
They are trying to do some damage control.
Re:Barbara Streisand effect... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Barbara Streisand effect... (Score:4, Insightful)
A bigger pity still is that we get down on our knees and deepthroat the ??AA when we reelect their politicians over and over.
...or buy tickets to their movies, or buy the Blu-Ray, DVD, etc...
But yeah, you're mostly right. I do disagree about it being a case of starstruck behavior, though. I think it's because the vast majority of the population simply doesn't give a crap. They're either completely ignorant about it, know something about it but think it's "too geeky" and happily not care, or they know all about it but happily download movies anyway (thinking that the odds of getting caught are well below that of getting busted for illegal marijuana use in Northern California).
Either way, until you can get the population both cognizant and passionate about it, approximately nothing will happen. Problem is, most folks get their info from, oh, wait - the media. The same media who really, really, really don't want you to get in the way of the revenue streams from their respective entertainment divisions.
Long story short? Good luck with that, sadly.
Re:Barbara Streisand effect... (Score:4, Insightful)
Anti-trust regulations would probably prevent such a move, otherwise Apple would have done it already...
Interesting idea.
Re:DUH! (Score:4, Insightful)
"Round and round we go..."
There's something here I don't understand.
If the material has been taken down, then the links should not function.
If the links have not been taken down, then the material is (most likely) not infringing.
So the "problem" would appear to be nothing but a fiction.