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Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search

TorrentFreak

It’s no secret that online piracy presents a major challenge to copyright holders. With owners of pirate sites largely unresponsive, search engines and other online intermediaries are often asked to intervene. In most cases, these takedown efforts are outsourced to third-party companies. These outfits scour the web for links to infringing material and subsequently ask the operators of these sites and services to take action.

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It never ceases to amaze

Likelihood of Confusion

Originally posted 2011-10-24 22:45:05. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Berryhill writes, on the “INTA List”: Now everyone is getting in on the act… Since large scale domain tasting has largely been stopped, the way is clear for internet service providers to intercept queries seeking non-existent, non-registered domain names, which largely consists of users who have […] The post It never ceases to amaze appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Journey Through “Marchs” on SpicyIP (2005 – Present)

SpicyIP

Image from here Namaskar … I am back with the “ Sifting Through SpicyIP Pages ” series! Apologies for the long delay; life got busier for some undesirable reasons. But things have finally gotten better, and this blogger is back. Mind you, I haven’t returned with just one post. Nope! I did two rounds this time – March and April to compensate for the wait.