Originally shared by Miguel Afonso Caetano"You'd think it wouldn't be too hard to vet a DMCA takedown request for false positives, especially when the request only includes 28 URLs. You'd be wrong.
TMG (Germany's Tele Munchen Group, which acts as a European distributor for several motion picture studios) issued a takedown request on behalf of Universal Pictures France, hoping to delist links to a few movies. But its algorithm is obviously flawed.
To start with, it listed our article on the Hacking Team hack under its list of supposedly infringing URLs for the movie "Hacker.""
TMG (Germany's Tele Munchen Group, which acts as a European distributor for several motion picture studios) issued a takedown request on behalf of Universal Pictures France, hoping to delist links to a few movies. But its algorithm is obviously flawed.
To start with, it listed our article on the Hacking Team hack under its list of supposedly infringing URLs for the movie "Hacker.""
German Film Distributor Issues Takedown Request Falsely Targeting IMDb, Reddit And Techdirt | Techdirt