Takedown articles

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  GoPro accused of suppressing camera review with a DMCA takedown request

  By Adi Robertson on March 20, 2013 06:35 pm + 46 comments

  Few legal notices are as publicly maligned — or misused — as the DMCA takedown request. For Continue reading…

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  Megaupload takedown may have increased legal movie downloads, says study

  By Sam Byford on March 7, 2013 10:39 pm + 55 comments

  Despite Kim Dotcom's protestations, there's no doubt that a lot of people used Megaupload to Continue reading…

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  NASCAR blocks eyewitness video of Daytona crash, but YouTube reverses the takedown

  By T.C. Sottek on February 23, 2013 06:33 pm + 195 comments

  A NASCAR race at the Daytona International Speedway today was disrupted by a harrowing crash that Continue reading…

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  Documents revealing spring release for Android Key Lime Pie taken down by Qualcomm

  By Aaron Souppouris on February 1, 2013 05:39 am + 146 comments

  On Wednesday, Android Police published information from leaked Qualcomm slides that showed the Continue reading…

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  Twitter's 2012 transparency report reveals many DMCA takedown requests, few from government

  By T.C. Sottek on January 28, 2013 11:17 am + 2 comments

  Twitter has just released its second transparency report along with a new transparency website, Continue reading…

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  Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May

  By Adi Robertson on December 15, 2012 01:21 pm + 90 comments

  Use of Google's takedown tool for search results has grown tenfold in the past six months, the Continue reading…

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  Microsoft mistakenly asks Google to block the BBC, Wikipedia, US government webpages

  By Aaron Souppouris on October 8, 2012 07:50 am + 78 comments

  Last July, Microsoft France filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice to Continue reading…

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  YouTube isn't going to manually check videos for copyright infringement after all

  By Jeff Blagdon on October 4, 2012 09:11 pm + 35 comments

  YouTube wants to be clear — its employees aren’t going to be the ones manually checking the Continue reading…

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  Ustream suspends Vobile DRM amid outrage over Hugo Awards takedown

  By Louis Goddard on September 4, 2012 04:32 am + 14 comments

  Streaming service Ustream has suspended the use of the third-party DRM tool Vobile after the system Continue reading…

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  Twitter's lawyer on the balance between user rights and business interests

  By Kimber Streams on September 3, 2012 03:41 pm + 5 comments

  Twitter's chief lawyer, Alexander Macgillivray, talked to The New York Times about what he calls the Continue reading…