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techdirt has dug up some interesting items which may indicate that the BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, may be trying to get Google into trouble for allowing pirated content to exist within their index.
A sample of the BPI's recent DMCA takedown notices to Google showed that the industry group listed several file hosting websites, such as Mediafire, Sendspace, as "infringing webpage(s)". The normal procedure would be to list the precise URL that has been indexed by Google so Google can remove this link, but instead, the BPI has simply listed the 30 or so songs that have been illegally shared and the domain names of the file hosting websites that contained them, suggesting they want Google to remove *all* Mediafire, Sendspace and other file host links in their index which contain these songs, as opposed to a specific URL. This could be the BPI's attempt to put the responsibility on Google to "search and destroy" all future links to the listed songs on these file hosting services, which is something the search giant will not want to do, due to the difficulty of setting up such as service, and the likelihood of false positives.
By serving Google notice, techdirt's Mike Masnick theorizes that when Google fails to remove listings for all hosted files from these domains, it will be grounds for a lawsuit, in a similar strategy to the way Viacom sued Google's YouTube.
Sending DMCA notices to take down links is time consuming an ineffective as the same content can be uploaded again and again once the original link has been removed. It's obvious that the music and movie industry do not want to take responsibility for identifying and removing infringing content, and instead, it is trying to get the government and using the courts to get others, like ISPs, or websites like YouTube and Google, to do the work for the RIAA/MPAA, and at their own cost as well.
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A sample of the BPI's recent DMCA takedown notices to Google showed that the industry group listed several file hosting websites, such as Mediafire, Sendspace, as "infringing webpage(s)". The normal procedure would be to list the precise URL that has been indexed by Google so Google can remove this link, but instead, the BPI has simply listed the 30 or so songs that have been illegally shared and the domain names of the file hosting websites that contained them, suggesting they want Google to remove *all* Mediafire, Sendspace and other file host links in their index which contain these songs, as opposed to a specific URL. This could be the BPI's attempt to put the responsibility on Google to "search and destroy" all future links to the listed songs on these file hosting services, which is something the search giant will not want to do, due to the difficulty of setting up such as service, and the likelihood of false positives.
By serving Google notice, techdirt's Mike Masnick theorizes that when Google fails to remove listings for all hosted files from these domains, it will be grounds for a lawsuit, in a similar strategy to the way Viacom sued Google's YouTube.
Sending DMCA notices to take down links is time consuming an ineffective as the same content can be uploaded again and again once the original link has been removed. It's obvious that the music and movie industry do not want to take responsibility for identifying and removing infringing content, and instead, it is trying to get the government and using the courts to get others, like ISPs, or websites like YouTube and Google, to do the work for the RIAA/MPAA, and at their own cost as well.
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