Google has filed a lawsuit in opposition to two males who allegedly used Google’s DMCA course of “geared toward eradicating a whole bunch of hundreds of their rivals’ web site URLs from Google Search outcomes,” the lawsuit writes (PDF right here).
The lawsuit says the “Defendants have weaponized copyright legislation’s notice-and-takedown course of and used it not for its supposed objective of expeditiously eradicating infringing content material, however as a substitute to have the authentic content material of their rivals eliminated primarily based on false allegations. This was first reported by Torrentfreak who mentioned they focused “as much as 620,000 URLs.”
The 2 defendants allegedly created “not less than 65 Google accounts so they might submit hundreds of fraudulent notices of copyright infringement in opposition to greater than 117,000 third-party
web site URLs.”
I’ve at all times heard of individuals claiming they’ll use the DMCA course of to harm their rivals, I assume Google had sufficient of this and wished to ship a warning to anybody utilizing this on a mass scale?
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