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09-06-2016, 06:51 PM
Warner Bros. asks Google to remove its own website due to copyright infringement
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First rule of filing DMCA takedown **tices: Do **t ask for your own site to be taken down.*
Warner Bros. would do well to heed that advice in the future. A recent DMCA copyright complaint (https://lumendatabase.org/**tices/12882815#) to Google, filed on behalf of Warner Bros. by copyright protection company Vobile and first **ticed (https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/) by TorrentFreak, asks for two of Warner Bros.' own websites to be taken down. Some other sites on the list, including Amazon, are also obviously listed in error.*
SEE ALSO: YouTube has paid $2 billion to rights holders through Content ID (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/youtube-content-id-piracy-update/)
The sites in question are WB's official sites for The Dark Knight (http://www.warnerbros.com/matrix) and The Matrix (http://www.warnerbros.com/dark-knight). As you can see in one of the screenshots below, Amazon's entirely in**cuous page (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Knight-Christian-Bale/dp/B001OGWY1W) — in fact, a page where people can legally buy copies of The Dark Knight — is listed as a transgressor as well.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/warner-bros-dmca/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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First rule of filing DMCA takedown **tices: Do **t ask for your own site to be taken down.*
Warner Bros. would do well to heed that advice in the future. A recent DMCA copyright complaint (https://lumendatabase.org/**tices/12882815#) to Google, filed on behalf of Warner Bros. by copyright protection company Vobile and first **ticed (https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/) by TorrentFreak, asks for two of Warner Bros.' own websites to be taken down. Some other sites on the list, including Amazon, are also obviously listed in error.*
SEE ALSO: YouTube has paid $2 billion to rights holders through Content ID (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/youtube-content-id-piracy-update/)
The sites in question are WB's official sites for The Dark Knight (http://www.warnerbros.com/matrix) and The Matrix (http://www.warnerbros.com/dark-knight). As you can see in one of the screenshots below, Amazon's entirely in**cuous page (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Knight-Christian-Bale/dp/B001OGWY1W) — in fact, a page where people can legally buy copies of The Dark Knight — is listed as a transgressor as well.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/warner-bros-dmca/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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