Wacky Copyright Holders Shoot Themselves in the Foot

[Jerry Witt (mcfilms)]

I came across an interesting article today.

http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-holders-punish-themselves-with-crazy-dmca-takedowns-120525/

It seems the zeal used by some companies to issue DMCA take down notices actually trumps their own marketing efforts. These are mostly film studios and record companies where the left hand didn't seem to know what the right hand was doing.

But this led me to Googles Transparency Report at http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/. You can see there is an upward trend in take down notices. I looked around and couldn't find a search function. I was trying to see where the extortionletterinfo.com site or the Scribd account ranked.

[Greg Troy (KeepFighting)]

Do you think these companies are starting to use bots to search out for their material and then someone is just issuing the DMCA takedowns without checking on what the links are?  I know in large companies sometimes the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing as you said, but who would request take downs on your own trailers, delist your movie on a site that does reviews for movie goers or a Wikipedia listing on your own movie?  As much as I chuckled reading the article something doesn’t seem quite right here.

It seems the zeal used by some companies to issue DMCA take down notices actually trumps their own marketing efforts. These are mostly film studios and record companies where the left hand didn't seem to know what the right hand was doing.

[Robert Krausankas (BuddhaPi)]

I looked around and couldn't find a search function. I was trying to see where the extortionletterinfo.com site or the Scribd account ranked.

I don't think ELI has had any takedown notices filed thru google, just scribd itself, and I'm sure scribd gets it fair amount of takedowns..

you can do a takedown search here..http://chillingeffects.org/search.cgi

one would think if Hawaiian Art Network has issued "1000's" of them they would be in this database somewhere...we'll see

::edit:: the above link is for searching C & D reports and may not include DMCA takedown notices, but I know I saw it somewhere..