22.07.2015 - 06:34 [ Techdirt ]

German Film Distributor Issues Takedown Request Falsely Targeting IMDb, Reddit And Techdirt

ou‘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.