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Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results

arstechnica.com Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results

Google says DMCA fraudsters filed copyright takedown notices for 600,000+ URLs.

Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results

Google yesterday sued a group of people accused of weaponizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get competitors' websites removed from search results. Over the past few years, the foreign defendants "created at least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright infringement against more than 117,000 third-party website URLs," said Google's lawsuit filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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