DMCA

Hollywood Issuing DMCA Takedowns for Content on Their Own Computers

Are you familiar with this message? "In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we…

9 years ago

Google Fiber Users Receiving Automated Fines for Piracy

Google is sending customers of its fibre service that are suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted materials automated fines. Google Fiber…

10 years ago

New Halo Online Mod is Fully Playable; Video Shows Multiplayer Action

Despite being hit with DMCA takedown notices from Microsoft, modders of Russia-only MMO Halo Online have been clear that they are…

10 years ago

Publishers Want to Make Old Game Archiving Illegal

The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) wants archiving of abandoned video games, such as Internet Archive’s ever-growing library, illegal, calling the…

10 years ago

Sony Tries to Stop Email Leaks with DMCA Claims

There are always some people that become citizen journalists when the mainstream media fails to pick up on something or…

10 years ago

Google Updates Search Algorithm, Demotes Piracy in Favour of Legal Content

We've all been told time and time again that the internet has the capacity to be the Wild West of…

10 years ago

Movie Company Asks Google To Remove IMDB Links And Official Trailers From Its Listings

By now most of us know that the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown service has been abused by companies…

11 years ago

Google Ignores Requests To Delist Pirate Bay Homepage

Torrent Freak reports that the BPI, British Phonographic Industry/British Recorded Music Industry, has failed in a request to Google to…

11 years ago

Microsoft “Accidentally” Tries To Remove Open Office Download Links

A few weeks ago we brought you the news that Microsoft had sent Google DMCA takedown notices for its own…

11 years ago

Microsoft Sends Google DMCA Takedown Notice For Its Own Web Links

Google is bombared with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) take down notices everyday, but it isn't everyday that Microsoft submits…

11 years ago

GoPro Sends a DMCA Takedown Notice to DigitalRev Over Images Used In The Review

DigitalRev removed the review of GoPro Hero 3 and replaced it with the text of a DMCA takedown notice that…

12 years ago

The White House responds to phone unlock petition, agrees that it should be allowed

After collecting a total of 114,322 signatures via an online petition on The White House's website to remove DMCA exemptions…

12 years ago

FCC to Investigate Smartphone Unlocking Ban

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission mentioned about the Library of Congress's controversial decision to stop allowing consumers to…

12 years ago