In a bid to
make the internet piracy free, several infringing websites have suffered for
their disobedience to the copyright rule which is mainly governed by the DMCA (Digital
Millennium Copyright Act).
However, in
this course of action, several innocent websites have also been a victim of
been thrown out of Google’s search results despite not hosting copyright
materials.
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It must be
noted that most owners of copyrighted materials on the internet uses automated
software to file copyright infringement reports to Google to blacklist a
violator from its searches.
A funny but
popular example of this occurred when LeakID, which handles copyright
violations for Microsoft Corporation, erroneously sent a report to Google to
remove some links from its search results. Surprisingly, the links were links
to Microsoft’s pages.
The links
include the links to Microsoft’s official store, Microsoft’s official support
page, Microsoft’s official office page, and the main Microsoft.com page.
Luckily for
Microsoft, Google was able to note the mistake and Google didn’t remove
microsoft’s links from its search engine.
Several
websites have been removed in this type of situations and it could have
possibly been seen as rivalry if Google had removed Microsoft pages from its
search results.
Recently,
TV network HBO mistakenly filed a report against the open source player VLC
while it was clear that VLC player is only a software and didn’t infringe on
any TV related materials.
It was
earlier reported this week that Google has received request to remove about 100
million pages from its search results this year alone so it’s a very difficult
task for Google to be thorough and point out mistakes due to automated reports.
Source:
TorrentFreak
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