Copyright holders are increasingly trying to take down allegedly infringing links by sending millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google and elsewhere each month. Unfortunately, not all of their requests are accurate. Sometimes these mishaps are amusing,...

With the newly launched Mega, Kim Dotcom and his associates are doing all they can to be “good corporate citizens.” However, there are signs that under the current setup users rights are being trumped to accommodate copyright...

Ever since Google started publishing a transparency report for the DMCA requests it receives, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof. During the past month copyright holders asked Google to remove 12,045,130 webpages...

While many sites comply with DMCA-style takedown requests in order to maintain their ‘safe harbor’ status, sites such as The Pirate Bay routinely refuse to take anything down. For a long time there was little that could...

 LATimes Twitter removed more than 5,000 tweets between January and June for flouting copyrights, but refused the few requests it received from governments to take down tweets. Inspired by Google revealing who asked it to pull search...

TheRawStory Courts and law enforcement agencies in the United States have asked Twitter to hand over user information far more than any other country, according to a transparency report released by the social networking website on Monday. “Wednesday marks...