Warner Brothers accuses its own websites of copyright violation in Google takedown request

Daily News bericht: "Several Warner Brothers websites are violating the film company’s copyright... according to Warner Brothers.

The studio flagged some of its own sites as piracy portals, and asked Google to erase them from search results, in a bizarre takedown request.

Vobile, a digital copyright company, sent the request to Google on behalf of Warner Brothers in mid-August.
The message obsentibly asked Google to nix hundreds of little-known sites that, according to Warner Brothers, allow people to pirate the company’s hit films.

But as the copyright site Torrent Freak first noted, Warner Brothers blamed itself for its own privacy problems."

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