Neowin News Feed for: Takedown

Chinese Communist Party submitted by far the most App Store takedown demands to Apple

Paul Hill — Sat, 20 May 2023 04:12:02 +0000

Apple's 2022 App Store Transparency Report has shown that the Chinese Communist Party submitted the bulk of app takedown demands during 2022. Most of the targeted apps were commercial games. Read more...

Twitter saw a record number of content takedown requests from governments last year

Usama Jawad — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:13:55 +0000

According to Twitter's transparency report for January-June 2021, the platform faced a record number of account and content takedown requests from governments, with Japan leading the pack. Read more...

GoDaddy tells "free speech" social network, Gab, to find a new domain host after shooting

Paul Hill — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:42:01 +0000

The "free speech" social network, Gab, has been told by GoDaddy to go find a new domain host following the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue. The shooter was a user on Gab. Read more...

Microsoft moderates Gab content with site takedown threat

Paul Hill — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:08:01 +0000

The social network, Gab, has taken down one of its user's posts despite its motto "Speak Freely". Microsoft, which hosts the site on Azure, asked the site to remove content that had been flagged. Read more...

Sony begins sending copyright warnings to World Cup streamers

Paul Hill — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:04:01 +0000

Sony has been working preemptively to combat World Cup piracy online. The firm, which holds the rights to the event in some Asian countries, told streaming sites not to stream the event, or else. 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...

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...

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...

Nintendo forces fanmade version of The Legend of Zelda offline

Boyd Chan — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 05:24:01 +0000

After being played by half a million people in a matter of days, a fanmade 3D version of The Legend of Zelda has been removed due to its developers being served with a copyright infringement notice. Read more...

Google's ‘right to be forgotten' to cover searches across all Google domains

John Devon — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 02:30:02 +0000

The new, more restrictive policy will ensure that users located in Europe will not see delisted URLs, even if they search on non-European versions like Google.com. 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...

BBC takes a stand against 'right to be forgotten'

Jett Goldsmith — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:46:01 +0000

The BBC has taken a stand against what it says are wrongful removals under the EU's 'right to be forgotten' ruling, and is planning to publish a list of its articles which are removed from Google. Read more...

Google: Government surveillance inquiries 'spiking'

Tyler Holman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:31:13 +0000

Google's twice-yearly Transparency Report is out, and this time there isn't much good news to go around: worldwide, government inquiries and takedown requests are spiking at unprecedented levels. 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...

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...

Poll: What did you use MegaUpload for?

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:24:59 +0000

MegaUpload has been taken down by the United States government, and this has angered many people (especially Anonymous). So, we ask you: what did you use MegaUpload for? Read more...

LulzSec takes down Minecraft on what they call "TitanicTakeoverTuesday"

Tom Dwyer — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:36:23 +0000

After a busy day for Lulzsec, the hacking group have now set sail the Lulzboat and began to fire their Lul-cannons at Minecraft. The group managed to take down: Minecraft servers, Escapist Magazine, EVE Online, FinFisher... Read more...

427k email addresses found on a Rustock botnet harddrive

Tom Dwyer — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:35:25 +0000

Microsoft has been known in the past in dealing with the takedown of certain botnets. Earlier this year they took down the Rustock botnet which was responsible for as many as 30 billion spam messages... Read more...

YouTube, Disney to trial copyright takedown software

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:38:59 +0000

YouTube says it's now really close to trialling the video fingerprinting technology it has reckons will put an end to its status as a copyright renegade, which won it a $1bn lawsuit from Viacom. The... Read more...

Backyard Wrestling 2 gets golden takedown

Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:52:59 +0000

Today Eidos announced that Backyard Wrestling 2 has officially gone gold. It is expected the game will be released on November 16 for the Xbox and Playstation 2 consoles. Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes the... Read more...

Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:52:48 +0000

Devin Theriot-Orr, a member a feisty group of reporter-activists called Indymedia, was surprised when two FBI agents showed up at his Seattle law office, saying the visit was a "courtesy call" on behalf of Swiss... Read more...