Google has filed a lawsuit in opposition to two males who allegedly used Google’s DMCA course of “aimed toward eradicating a whole bunch of 1000’s of their opponents’ web site URLs from Google Search outcomes,” the lawsuit writes (PDF right here).

The lawsuit says the “Defendants have weaponized copyright regulation’s notice-and-takedown course of and used it not for its meant function of expeditiously eradicating infringing content material, however as a substitute to have the professional content material of their opponents eliminated based mostly on false allegations. This was first reported by Torrentfreak who stated they focused “as much as 620,000 URLs.”

The 2 defendants allegedly created “a minimum of 65 Google accounts so they might submit 1000’s of fraudulent notices of copyright infringement in opposition to greater than 117,000 third-party
web site URLs.”

I’ve at all times heard of individuals claiming they will use the DMCA course of to harm their opponents, I assume Google had sufficient of this and needed to ship a warning to anybody utilizing this on a mass scale?

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