Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint 495
dioscaido writes "If you search Google for Kazaa Lite, you'll find the results a bit lacking. Ironically enough, Sharman Networks, using the DMCA, filed a legal complaint to block Kazaa Lite sites. " Google links the DMCA request at the end of the results which contain the URLs in question, but the URLs aren't really the point. It's scary that the DMCA makes URLs a copyright violation. How long before libraries can't index books? Or own them?
Er... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Ironic (Score:5, Informative)
Watch this site for further info on this takedown (Score:5, Informative)
It's a good source for information on exactly this subject. No, I don't run it. ;-)
Same old same old (Score:5, Informative)
Ironic (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Foreign Google (Score:3, Informative)
You mean people still use kazaalite? (Score:3, Informative)
workd for me this morning
Re:It's time to put the DMCA to FAIR USE (Score:4, Informative)
Works for me! (Score:4, Informative)
Google 0wn3d by DMCA (Score:1, Informative)
Google can be contacted at comments@google.com [mailto].
And here:
Google, Inc.
2400 Bayshore Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
phone: (650) 623-4000
fax: (650) 618-1499
I'm sure they would love to hear what the Slashdot crowd thinks about injustice like this.
DCMA Gone too Far (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Libraries should pay royalties?! (Score:1, Informative)
Re:DMCA ... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ironic (Score:2, Informative)
In the I'll play by the rules department (Score:4, Informative)
Score: Google 1
Kazaa 0
DMCA 0
Re:DMCA ... (Score:3, Informative)
Just do you google searches through a european proxy or something..
Blue Ribbon (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Ironic (Score:5, Informative)
It may also explain why the latest release of KazaaLite is labelled "K++".
As Jonathan Swift said:
"So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum."
Re:Ironic (Score:3, Informative)
3.2 Except as expressly permitted in this Licence, you agree not to reverse engineer, de-compile, disassemble, alter, duplicate, modify, rent, lease, loan, sublicense, make copies, create derivative works from, distribute or provide others with the Software in whole or part, transmit or communicate the application over a network.
Kazaa Lite is a modified version, and thus not allowed to be distributed. They don't have to claim it's their own original work for it to be piracy.
Re:strange... (Score:5, Informative)
The act gives Federal jusidiction over "any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." The ATCA can be used via proxy by non-US entities as long as they can establish some reasonable connection to a US entity, such as relatives (in the case of people) or parents/subsidiaries (in the case of companies). Since copyright is covered in numerous treaties, particularly the Berne Convention, it is open season.
Here's the list of URL's blocked! (Score:1, Informative)
Why Even Bother ... Honestly? (Score:1, Informative)
Odd, when they make it public information on their website [biztechlaw.com] (whose URL isn't blocked out in the PDF file [chillingeffects.org]) and they don't have any other branches:
Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, L.L.P.
15821 Ventura Boulevard
Suite 525
Encino, CA 91436
(818) 444-4500
(818) 444-4520 fax
info@biztechlaw.com [mailto] e-mail
On a side note -- honestly curious, not meant to be trolling -- how is 378,000 results "a bit lacking"? And they only removed 14?
As for the blocked links, "the [kazaagold.com] Internet [mp3download.com] interprets [kazaalite.tk] censorship [kaaza.com] as [doa2.host.sk] damage [k-lite.tk] and [kazaa-file...nloads.com] routes [kazaalite.nl] around [home] it. [kazaa-download.de]" -- L. [zeropaid.com] Peter [slashdot.org] Deutsch [infos-du-net.com] (or John [kazaa-lite.tk] Gilmore [kazaa-lite.info])
let's not forget second best search engine (Score:2, Informative)
Before I settled on Google, I remember these guys were running neck and neck with Google producing very high quality search results. Give it a try.
It's a shame Google chose to remove the links instead of fighting the case.
Re:What's funny... Read the complaint (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Google for India also carries a DMCA notice. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:make them care (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Ironic (Score:3, Informative)
Uhhh Google wins again... (Score:3, Informative)
Google: 1-0
Sharman: 0-1
Re:Ironic (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Priceless. (Score:4, Informative)
Google have done ok. They make sure that you know the search has been censored. The links that are missing are available via cut and paste. If you didn't know what the DMCA was before, Google link to a site which will tell you more than you wanted to know, and from a sceptical point of view.
Re:Ironic (Score:3, Informative)
I believe it's a mod of OpenFT, though maybe by now they've integrated the FastTrack compatible code into the main fork.
So, in other words, you now really can use opensourced programs instead of Kazaa to connect to the same network.
Re:What's funny... Read the complaint (Score:4, Informative)
Alltheweb [alltheweb.com] doesn't quite have a Google Groups [google.com] or a News Google [google.com] equivalent (only news search; no headline parser), but the regular search is pretty cool.
Re:Priceless. (Score:3, Informative)
The site in question can ignore it, in which case Google does like in this case, removing the entry and providing a link to the details of the complaint.
However, if they site responds that they aren't infringing, Google will ignore the complaint and leave the site in search results, leaving it up to the two parties to duke it out with lawyers.
In other words, Google stays "neutral" in the whole thing if it's disputed, but a site has to at least respond to the complaint in order for them to bother to refuse to delist them.