Google says DMCA fraudsters filed copyright takedown notices for 600,000+ URLs.

Google yesterday sued a group of people accused of weaponizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get competitors’ websites removed from search results. Over the past few years, the foreign defendants “created at least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright infringement against more than 117,000 third-party website URLs,” said Google’s lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

  • ipkpjersiEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    DMCA is such a shitty law. But companies like Google choose the safe route and believe every DMCA claim without first using humans to investigate them (because that will cost more money), and this is the result.

    Isn’t that because Google would be liable if they ignored DMCA claims and a judge found in favor of the claimant?

    • OsrsNeedsF2PEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Only if they’re wrong, but yea. The risk vs reward is massively against the favor of standing up for a defendant

    • Dave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s all about incentives. Google’s behavior is what the law incentivizes.