The apparent rightsholders of the “motion picture recording of ‘Coyote vs. Acme’” believe that it is in their best interest to send DMCA takedown notices to Google for free advertising of their movie.

The company “CTW Anti-Piracy 2”, acting on behalf of “Altitude Film Sales” or “Altitude Film Sales 2”, believe that people should not be allowed to share trailers or news articles related to the movie ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ and have therefore decided to send a DMCA notice to Google to remove 19 post URLs on Lemmy.World from Google search results, as this is clearly “unauthorized distribution”.

I’m mostly mildly infuriated by them only sending this to Google, not to us, as I’d gladly take down any free advertising for them should they desire this, instead replacing it with posts about their malicious abuse of DMCA.

I’m obviously not going to appeal this to Google, as I neither care about Google nor am I willing to spend any time on restoring their free advertising in Google results.

Listed URLs:

Lumen notice: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/95982857

  • MrKaplanOPAEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    Given the amount of false notices in the past (not to us, in general), there is absolutely a ton of automation without human oversight in there, and that was already the case long before AI.

    Companies like “CTW Anti-Piracy 2” and “Altitude Film Sales” or "Altitude Film Sales 2” (not sure if there are multiple types of Altitude Film Sales, the Lumen notice lists them with a 2 but the complaint text without) clearly don’t care about the damage they do to their own reputation. In the end, most people won’t care anyway and it won’t meaningfully harm their reputation even if they fuck up on a significantly larger scale. It’s not like they’d have to fear any legal repercussions for these false statements either, as the only part they swear under penalty of perjury is that they are authorized by the copyright holder.