Warner Bros. asks Google to remove its own website due to copyright infringement
 

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 to Google, filed on behalf of Warner Bros. by copyright protection company Vobile and first **ticed 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.*

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The sites in question are WB's official sites for The Dark Knight and The Matrix. As you can see in one of the screenshots below, Amazon's entirely in**cuous page — in fact, a page where people can legally buy copies of The Dark Knight — is listed as a transgressor as well.* Read more...

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