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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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