[Torrentfreak] Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request

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In a comical display of meta-censorship several copyright holders including 20th Century Fox and NBC Universal have sent Google takedown requests asking the search engine to take down links to takedown request they themselves sent. Google refused to comply with the movie studios requests and the “infringing” DMCA notices remain online. Meanwhile, the number of takedown notices received by Google is nearing 20 million per month. […]

The standards are shifting in other ways too. No longer is Google merely asked to remove direct links to copyrighted material as the DMCA prescribes, but also links to links to links to copyrighted material.
The above shows the growing mess the current DMCA procedures are creating and for now there is no end in sight. Both Google and the copyright holders agree that something has to change, but understandably the solution they envision is quite different.
In the meantime, copyright holders continue to push the search engine to its takedown limits at a rate of 20 million URLs a month. […]

Movie Studios Want Google to Take Down Their Own Takedown Request