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Every other week we take a casual look at the various takedown requests companies such as Google and Twitter receive. <\/p>\nEvery other week we take a casual look at the various takedown requests companies such as Google and Twitter receive. <\/p>\n
The vast majority of the notices are valid and point to pirated material, but mistakes are certainly not hard to find. <\/p>\n
These errors come in different shapes and sizes. One wrongly identified URL in a list of thousands is somewhat understandable. However, there are also instances where it\u2019s hard to find legitimate claims to begin with. <\/p>\n
The latter applies to some of the DMCA notices that webtoon publisher Toomics<\/a> has sent to Google. The company, which recently teamed up<\/a> with other publishers to counter piracy, is building a terrible track record. <\/p>\n We don\u2019t even have to dive deeply into the individual takedowns to show that\u2019s something\u2019s not quite right. The overview of the domains that are most targeted by the company, which includes Amazon, Facebook, Pinterest and Wikipedia, speaks for itself. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n There are plenty of errors we can choose from to illustrate that something\u2019s wrong. For example, in a notice<\/a> where Toomics attempts to remove \u2018pirated\u2019 copies of the webtoon \u2018Sweet Bitter Love,\u2019 it targets a film<\/a>, a BBC series<\/a>, a book<\/a>, and a song<\/a> which happen to share the same name. And that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n In another takedown request<\/a>, Toomics tries to go after pirated copies of the webtoon \u201cYou Have The Wrong Person\u201d. Instead, it asks Google to remove unrelated URLs including the Wikipedia entry of The Magic Flute<\/a>, various posts<\/a> about being in love<\/a> or married<\/a> to the wrong person, and dozens of other errors. <\/p>\n We could go on to highlight hundreds of mistakes, but the data speak for themselves. The same can be said for Google\u2019s response, as the company wisely refused to take any action<\/a> in response to some of Toomic\u2019s takedown notices.<\/p>\n There is one other thing that stands out in the notices, which we surely want to highlight. Toomics also asked Google to remove dozens of URLs from its own website, Toomics.com.<\/p>\n For example, in the previously mentioned \u201cYou Have The Wrong Person\u201d notice there are 14 Toomics.com links that point to the official cartoon. As a bonus, the companies also tried to have the URLs of their own tweets removed. This pattern reappears in several notices and shows that Toomics hasn\u2019t even whitelisted its own website. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n The good news for the webtoon publisher is that Google is good at spotting mistakes. This means that most legitimate links, including the Toomics.com ones, have not been removed from Google\u2019s search results. <\/p>\n However, Toomics is not always that lucky. We also spotted instances where Google did remove Toomic.com URLs. This Jeopardy webtoon, for example, was self-flagged<\/a> and no longer appears in search results. But they had that one coming. Let\u2019s hope it\u2019s a wake-up call.<\/p>\n From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n![\"most](\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/toomicstargets.jpg\")
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Toomics Targets Its Own Site Too<\/h2>\n
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