HBO wants Google to censor HBO.com?

[Plok 327]

Every week Google is asked to remove more than four million URLs from its search engine. While these automated requests are usually legitimate, mistakes happen more often than one might expect. In a recent DMCA notice HBO asked Google to censor links to HBO.com, as well as several other legitimate sites and blogs.

 

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Today, for example, we stumbled upon a DMCA notice sent on behalf of HBO in which Google was asked to remove “infringing” links to ‘Eastbound and Down’ content in HBO’s very own store.

And that’s not the only mistake they’ve made.

 

 

The same DMCA notice also lists various other legitimate sites, including Perez Hilton’s blog, Pinterest, MTV.com and IGN.com. All sites wrote reviews or news articles about HBO content, but there were no links to pirated content.

 

It is worth noting that the DMCA notice in question was sent by DtectNet. This is the anti-piracy division of MarkMonitor, the same company that is also responsible for tracking down BitTorrent pirates as part of the upcoming six-strikes anti-piracy scheme.

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http://torrentfreak.com/hbo-wants-google-to-censor-hbo-com-130203/

 

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[Luk3us 63]

Over zelaous morons who would love nothing more than to ban everything and anything.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

HBO is so censored these days. Same goes to Showtime.

[cardarikus 0]

These are the costs of the globalistaion. We can find whatever we want wherever we are, but there are also companis that provide that possibility to us so they can controll what we can find on the net.