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SEM & SEO

Google Sues Over Fraudulent DMCA Takedown Requests

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15
Nov

Google has filed a lawsuit against two men who allegedly used Google’s DMCA process “aimed at removing hundreds of thousands of their competitors’ website URLs from Google Search results,” the lawsuit writes (PDF here). The lawsuit says the “Defendants have weaponized copyright law’s notice-and-takedown process and used it not for its intended purpose of expeditiously […]

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SEM & SEO

Google Pirate (DMCA) Penalty Will get Stronger & Catches Redirects

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22
Feb

Google sent a document to the US Copyright Office that explains how Google’s DMCA update (aka the Pirate update) has been strengthened by (1) catching redirect schemes and (2) a site hit by this emotion on average sees a 89% drop in Google search traffic. I spotted this via Glenn Gabe on Twitter via TorrentFreak.com. […]

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