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Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google yesterday sued a group of people accused of weaponizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get competitors' websites removed from search results. Over the past few years, the foreign defendants "created at least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright infringement against more than 117,000 third-party website URLs," said Google's lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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[–] [email protected] 189 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Wait, Google cares about DMCA abuse!? Someone tell them about YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The trick is to make it so their product isn't reliable enough to use. Then they care.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Unless it's themselves making it less reliable to push more ads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But they are doing that themselves already. I think they care because handling takedowns creates work for them and because they may be taking down search results that generate them ad revenue.

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