- Windows
- By Bogdan Popa
- June 17th, 2020
Microsoft Claims Customizing Windows 10 Is a Copyright Violation
And so is disabling “annoying features built into Windows”
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 29th, 2017
Facebook's Homepage Featured on DMCA Received by Google via Premier League
As if Google will ever take Facebook.com off search results
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- April 18th, 2017
Reddit Rejected over 80% of DMCA Notices Received in 2016
Out of the 3,294 DMCA notices, only a few got through
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- March 20th, 2017
WordPress Gets 5K Takedown Requests, Google Gets a Lot More for WP Sites
Copyright holders aren't too successful either way
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 26th, 2017
RIAA, Other Copyright Holders Want ISPs to Introduce Piracy Filters
The DMCA is no longer enough for rightsholders, who now want ISPs to filter out copyrighted content and block access
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 22nd, 2017
Google Says 99.95% of DMCA-Targeted URLs Removed in January Weren't Even Indexed
Asking Google to take down bogus URLs has become a trend
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- February 20th, 2017
Google Received 50M Bogus Takedown Requests for Pirate Site with No Traffic
The site ranks 25 milionth for one domain and 266K for the other domain it launched just last month
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 21st, 2016
Security Firm Tries to Silence Critic Using Questionable DMCA Notice
SiteLock sends White Fir Design DMCA notice for using a screenshot of their site's homepage, and more
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 21st, 2016
Music Stars Band Together to Request Reform of DMCA Law on Which YouTube Relies
Artists want Google to pay more for the music users upload
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 17th, 2016
Pirate Hunting Firm Wants ISPs to Pay Fines for Repeat Offenders
Anti-piracy firm proposes changes to DMCA copyright law
- Internet Life
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 13th, 2015
Subaru Asks People to Blog About Them, Then Sends DMCA Notice to Take Their Blog Down
Subaru's legal department fails to understand its own social media campaigns, issues silly DMCA takedowns
- Internet Life
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 13th, 2015
Nintendo Asks GitHub to Remove Web-Based Game Boy Emulator
Nintendo doesn't want you playing its older games
- Technology & Gadgets
- By Silviu Stahie
- April 22nd, 2015
John Deere and Its Tractors Say You Don't Own Anything, You're Just Leasing
The company wants to redefine the idea of ownership
- Games
- By Radu Haulica
- February 3rd, 2015
DMCA Claim on Dying Light Mods Was Made in Error
Neither Techland nor Warner Bros. had anything to do with it
- Games
- By Radu Haulica
- February 2nd, 2015
Dying Light Dev Is Abusing DMCA to Shut Down the Modding Scene Updated
A dubious move at best, considering that Dead Island has such a dedicated modding community and is still alive today
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- November 3rd, 2014
Copyright Holders Flood Google with DMCA Notices to Sink Pirate Sites
Google's anti-piracy algorithm keeps track of DMCA notices
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 24th, 2014
Big Torrent Sites Get Hit by Google's New Anti-Piracy Downranking
Google's new anti-piracy rules hit big sites, ironically promote smaller torrent sites in their place