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In recent years, Google has had to process an incredible number of takedown requests, aimed at \u2018pirate\u2019 sites in search results.<\/p>\nIn recent years, Google has had to process an incredible number of takedown requests, aimed at \u2018pirate\u2019 sites in search results.<\/p>\n
While most of these notices do indeed list links to copyright-infringing content, not all do.<\/p>\n
Every week we see obvious errors, where sites such as IMDb, Wikipedia, Justice.gov, and NASA are targeted. By now we ignore most of these mistakes but in some instances, we take them personally. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s also the case for a DMCA takedown request Google received a few days ago<\/a>. This notice claims to identify several problematic URLs that allegedly infringe the copyrights of Disney\u2019s hit series The Mandalorian. <\/p>\n This is not unexpected, as The Mandalorian was the most pirated TV show of last year<\/a>, as we reported in late December. However, we didn\u2019t expect to see our article as one of the targeted links in the notice. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Apparently, the news that The Mandalorian is widely pirated \u2013 which was repeated by dozens of other publications<\/a> \u2013 is seen as copyright infringement? Needless to say, we wholeheartedly disagree. This is not the way.<\/p>\n We will certainly put up a fight if Google decides to remove the page. At the time of writing, this has yet to happen. The search engine currently lists the takedown request as \u2018pending,\u2019 which likely means that there will be a manual review.<\/p>\n The good news is that Google is usually pretty good at catching overbroad takedown requests. This is also true for TorrentFreak articles that were targeted previously<\/a>, including our coverage<\/a> on the Green Book screener leak<\/a>.<\/p>\n Finally, it\u2019s worth noting that this takedown request doesn\u2019t come from Disney, as one might expect. Instead, it was sent by the company GFM Film, which doesn\u2019t immediately ring a bell. <\/p>\n At first, we thought that the German camera company GFM<\/a> could have something to do with it, as they worked on The Mandalorian. However, earlier takedown notices from the same sender protected the film \u201cThe Last Witness,\u201d which is linked to<\/a> the UK company GFM Film Sales. <\/p>\n Since we obviously don\u2019t want to falsely accuse anyone, we\u2019re not pointing fingers. What we know for sure, however, is that our news article didn\u2019t host or link to any infringing content.<\/p>\n From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nTorrentFreak Targeted<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nTakedown Protest<\/h2>\n
Not Disney<\/h2>\n