Microsoft Sends Google A DMCA Notice... To Block Microsoft's Bing Search Engine
from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up dept
Ah, bogus DMCA notices that you just can't make up. TorrentFreak has a good article highlighting a completely bogus DMCA notice from Microsoft (sent by one of its partners on its behalf) that tries to take a bunch of legitimate news sites out of Google's index, on the mistaken claim that they violated Windows 8 copyrights. But, even more ridiculous is an aside mentioned in the article, that some other DMCA notices appear to target Bing, Microsoft's own search engine. Indeed, they're not that hard to find. If you look up DMCA notices asking Google to remove links to Bing, Microsoft shows up quite a bit:Yes, this is yet another silly move by an automated system, but it once again highlights some of the ridiculousness involved in DMCA takedowns for search results.
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Filed Under: automated, bing, copyright, dmca, takedowns
Companies: google, microsoft
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Wait, what were we talking about again?
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Where have I seen that before?
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If they can't be bothered to care about it, why should we?
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Time to start charging these people lots of money.
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moment of truth google, do u take a stand or do i switch to duck duck go
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I use YaCy on my personal machine. By design it can never be censored by anyone, including those who created it. If you use it as a proxy for surfing, it will crawl based on where you surf and will eventually make the searches faster by using your local data first. The trade off is that you are asked (not required though) to contribute disk space and bandwidth and it can be a bit slow.
I also recently discovered Gibiru which looks interesting in that it seems to be designed to list alternates to mainstream media higher, as opposed to Google which Gibiru claims are bowing to the wishes of the NSA and are delisting alternate news sources on issues the NSA would like to be kept quiet.
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*Draws sword*
HAVE AT THEE! MAKE MY DAY!
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes,599/
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