Well this should be embarrassing. Typically media owners like movie studios and record labels cough up loads of IP addresses that lead to pirated versions of their content. These companies then request that the links be removed from Google’s search engine. The result is a little message at the bottom of search results stating that Google removed content at the request of the content right holders.
However, according to a report by The Next Web, several media companies are sending Google takedown notices with links that point back to content stored on their computers. For instance, Universal Pictures France is requesting that Google remove links to Jurassic World, but the movie is hosted by a BitTorrent client residing at http://127.0.0.1, which is a system’s “localhost” address within Universal Pictures France.
The report also points to NBC Universal, which requested that Google remove links leading back to a copy of 47 Ronkin. A list provided by the report shows fifteen addresses within the NBC Universal umbrella. Even more, Workman Publishing has them both beat, requesting that Google remove 108 links to the Life of Pi audio book that resides within Workman’s own network.
As the report points out, some of these submissions might be “innocent mistakes” as the media companies may be using BitTorrent to catch those who are looking for illegal copies of music, movies and so on. However, media companies seem more intent of gathering up all IP addresses that are possibly infringing on copyright and assuming Google will sort them all out.
What’s interesting is that companies are going out of their way to remove links of pirated material from the likes of Google and Yahoo, yet there seems to be evidence that these same companies can’t keep their employees from illegally distributed copyrighted content. Perhaps said companies should put a bigger focus on the leaks rather than dish out a huge list of IP addresses that points to their own machines.
From maximumpc
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