Neowin News Feed for: Dmca

Anna's Archive now accounts for 5% of all URLs reported to Google for takedown

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:46:01 +0000

Anna's Archive is now the number one piracy website for Google takedown requests as publishers attempt to reduce its visibility. Read more...

Not torrents, but illegal live-streaming sites are the biggest enemy of the 2024 Olympics

Martin Hodás — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 06:46:01 +0000

Piracy evolves, too. The Olympics demonstrated that torrents are a threat of the past, as websites with illegal live streams are now main cause of headaches for intellectual property rights holders. Read more...

Google takes legal action against scammers who exploit enthusiasm for Bard AI

Steve Bennett — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:00:01 +0000

Google has announced in a blog post published today that it will be taking legal action against scammers who wish to profit from the hype surrounding generative AI and its tool, Bard. Read more...

Wii emulator Dolphin hit with DMCA notice by Nintendo to block Steam launch

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 27 May 2023 07:34:01 +0000

The team behind the GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin has had to indefinitely postpone the highly-anticipated Steam store launch following a DMCA notice by Nintendo to block the release. Read more...

Marvel subpoenas Google and Reddit to identify Ant-Man leaker

Usama Jawad — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:36:02 +0000

Marvel has filed a subpoena against Google and Reddit in a DMCA filing which aims to determine the identity of the people responsible for leaking the subtitles of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Read more...

EFF takes on DMCA provision criminalizing open speech, indirectly forwarding ‘Right to Repair'

Alap Naik Desai — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 05:18:01 +0000

The EFF is going after Section 1201 of the DMCA which currently criminalizes any attempts to speak about legally acquired copyrighted material. If repealed, it would boost Right to Repair movement. Read more...

Microsoft is issuing DMCA complaints to take down leaked "Windows 11 ISO" links

Abhay V — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:12:01 +0000

Microsoft is issuing DMCA complaints to Google in regions such as Japan, asking the search giant to take down search results pointing to articles linking to the leaked "Windows 11" ISOs. Read more...

NMPA files copyright infringement lawsuit against Roblox, increases DMCA requests to Twitch

Subir Kathuria — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:02:02 +0000

The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) has filed a $200 million lawsuit against Roblox. It has also aggressively started sending takedown notices to Twitch for removing unlicensed content. Read more...

GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

Paul Hill — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:16:02 +0000

GitHub has reinstated the youtube-dl repository after it received evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation showing that the project doesn't violate the DMCA as it was accused of doing. Read more...

PewDiePie bemoans foul play after DMCA takedown

Usama Jawad — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:58:02 +0000

Firewatch's developer recently filed a DMCA complaint against PewDiePie in protest of the YouTuber using a racial slur in an unrelated video. PewDiePie has now cried foul play over the DMCA takedown. Read more...

Following the developer's DMCA threat, Firewatch is now being review-bombed

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 23:48:01 +0000

Disgruntled users on Steam have now begun flooding Firewatch's dedicated page with negative reviews, bringing the rating down to 'Mixed', following the developer's comments earlier this week. Read more...

Anti-ad blocking firm, Admiral, deals potentially damaging blow to ad blockers

Paul Hill — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:36:01 +0000

Admiral, an anti-ad blocking company, may have found a way to cripple ad blockers after it issued a DMCA takedown notice to a popular ad blocking filter list, which complied to avoid legal trouble. Read more...

Google says 99.95% of January 2017 DMCA takedown notices were bogus

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 22:40:01 +0000

Responding to the US Copyright Office inquiry regarding DMCA effectiveness, Google has said 99.95% of January 2017 takedown notices were bogus. The search giant still supports the system, though. Read more...

In 2016, Google received more than one billion takedown requests

Boyd Chan — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 04:12:01 +0000

While piracy continued throughout 2016, Google received more than 1.1 billion takedown requests. The amount falls just short of the total number of takedown requests received in the prior five years. Read more...

Sega pokes fun at Nintendo's stringent DMCA policies

Usama Jawad — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:22:01 +0000

The official "Sonic the Hedgehog" YouTube account has taken a shot at Nintendo, making fun of its stringent DMCA policies and telling fans that it's ok to "make great stuff" based on its IP. Read more...

Warner Bros. tags itself as a copyright-infringing website in its battle against piracy

Justin Luna — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 13:36:01 +0000

In a recent attempt to suppress piracy, Warner Bros. issued another set of takedown requests to search engine Google. Peculiarly, the requests contain links from the entertainment company themselves. Read more...

Google and Reddit in the crosshairs of Warner Bros over piracy

Boyd Chan — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:24:01 +0000

In a move similar to that undertaken by Lionsgate in 2014, Warner Bros has attempted to have an entire subreddit suppressed from Google's search index as part of a recently submitted DMCA complaint. Read more...

Fox issues DMCA takedown against the original YouTube clip it put into Family Guy

Boyd Chan — Sun, 22 May 2016 11:34:01 +0000

In a temporary lapse of common sense, YouTube ended up taking down a user's video subsequent to a copyright claim from Fox after a portion of the video featured in last week's Family Guy episode. Read more...

YouTube will now protect and defend fair use in court

Jerry Grey — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:50:01 +0000

YouTube says it will no longer blindly follow DMCA claims and instead will defend fair use of music, movie and TV clips when parodied or critiqued, and has warned it will go to court if necessary. Read more...

NeoBytes :) Universal Pictures seeds pirated movie copy, files takedown notice against itself

Andy Weir — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 07:56:02 +0000

Universal submitted a DMCA takedown notice to Google against 127.0.0.1 for distributing a pirated copy of Jurassic World - not realizing that that IP address referred to one of its own machines. Read more...

Google now removing 1 million links per day thanks to DMCAs

Brad Sams — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:37:37 +0000

For the first time ever, Google is now removing an average of 1 million links to pirated content per day because of DMCA takedown notices, which is a large increase from a few years ago. Read more...

Twitter removes copyright infringing avatars of FIFA World Cup fans

Shreyas Gandhe — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:03:03 +0000

After receving a Digital Millenium Copyright Act complaint from FIFA, Twitter has removed profile pictures of some users for using copyrighted images of the official World Cup logo and related images. Read more...

Dropbox & the automated DMCA system explained

Jean-Michel Azzopardi — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:53:07 +0000

Dropbox is admittedly, snooping through its users files in a bid to combat piracy, though it will not be deleting your files just yet. This is however being done in a non-invasive manner. Read more...

Google DMCA notices surged up 711,887 percent from 2008 to 2012

John Callaham — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:53:54 +0000

A new report claims that the number of DMCA takedown notices received by Google surged up by 711,887 percent in a period of four years, from 62 in 2008 to 441,370 in 2012. Read more...

Microsoft breaks ties with company over its mistaken Google DMCA takedown requests

John Callaham — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:38:03 +0000

Microsoft has announced it is no longer working with LeakID after the company sent a number of erroneous and embarrassing DMCA takedown requests to Google on Microsoft's behalf. Read more...

Watching DVDs on Linux is (mostly) illegal

Tim Schiesser — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:47:22 +0000

The most common, free method of watching a video DVD on Linux actually circumvents the CSS protection on the disc, which is technically illegal under the DMCA in the United States Read more...

Oops: Microsoft sends takedown requests to BBC, Wikipedia, and the US Government

Tyler Holman — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:29:42 +0000

Microsoft's automated takedown systems may need some work, since it's been trying to block Wikipedia, the BBC, and even the EPA for supposedly distributing pirated beta copies of Windows 8. Read more...

Google Takedown requests increase by 1137% compared to 2011

Paul Ferson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:18:52 +0000

Google's Takedown requests have increased by over 1,000% compared to last year. The search giant now handles more than a million takedown requests weekly, from various groups and reporters. Read more...

Google creates a giant database of links to pirated material

Alfonso Maruccia — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:36:48 +0000

Google is unknowingly helping amassing a huge amount of links to illegal content available on the web, and the culprit is that same industry that would like to eradicate piracy from the Internet. Read more...

One studio accounts for 1/3 of Twitter DMCA takedowns

Tyler Holman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:22:45 +0000

According to recently released statistics, a single studio, Magnolia Pictures, accounts for a whole one third of all DMCA takedown requests on Twitter, more than Universal Music and Sony combined. Read more...

GoDaddy hit with boycott over SOPA support [Update]

Mike Brown — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:06:51 +0000

Domain registrar GoDaddy has been hit with a boycott of its services, after Reddit users discovered the company's support of the controversial SOPA bill. Users are now taking their websites elsewhere. Read more...

Judge: DMCA allows DVD Ripping

James Woodfin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:30:32 +0000

A judge made a ruling on Monday that suggests that educational institutions are allowed rip DVDs and stream them. The judge dismissed the lawsuit that claimed the DMCA was violated by the practice. Read more...

Grooveshark faces another lawsuit

Paul Ferson — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:33:16 +0000

Grooveshark has been served another lawsuit, to continue its ongoing copyright issues. The lawsuit was issued on July 15th in the state of Tennessee. As CNET reports, the lawsuit comes with the backing of song... Read more...

Dropbox tries shutting down open source project

Christopher White — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:24:56 +0000

Dropbox sure has been in the news a lot lately. Two weeks ago Neowin reported that a major security flaw in the service can expose customer files to anyone on the Internet. Now it appears... Read more...

Judge allows Sony to subpoena IPs of visitors to GeoHot's website

Michael Collado — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:49:44 +0000

Federal magistrate Joseph Spero ruled this week that it was okay for Sony to acquire the IP addresses of visitors who took to George Hotz's, more likely known as GeoHot, website in search of jailbreaking... Read more...

Sony sues GeoHot, other PlayStation 3 jailbreak hackers

Michael Collado — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:34:05 +0000

Sony has decided to take legal action against the hackers that were able to exploit the PlayStation 3 operating system into running homebrew and pirated software, which worked by accessing root keys or "special codes"... Read more...

Microsoft backs down over "spy guide" leak, no longer seeking removal

Tom Warren — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:16:55 +0000

Microsoft has backed down from issuing a DMCA request to hosts of a leaked Microsoft “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” Earlier today, Neowin reported on the leak of a 22-page guide that describes the surveillance services Microsoft... Read more...

Microsoft demands take-down of leaked "spy guide"

Tom Warren — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:23:56 +0000

Whistleblowing site Cryptome has landed itself in trouble with Microsoft legal for publishing the software company's “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” The handbook, dated March 2008, is a 22-page guide that describes the surveillance services Microsoft offers... Read more...

Fair use comes first in web video

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:24:27 +0000

A video of a dancing baby has led to a landmark decision regarding the handling of internet videos. As part of the ruling in the Lenz v. Universal case, US Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that... Read more...

Lexmark suffers second knock back in DMCA case

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:24:00 +0000

A federal appeals court has denied Lexmark's request to consider reimposing an injunction against a firm that makes components that allow generic replacement ink cartridges to work in Lexmark printers. The ruling by the US... Read more...