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Paramount Censors Torrentz’s Torrentless Homepage from Google

The homepage of the popular torrent search engine Torrentz disappeared from Google this week after Hollywood studio Paramount sent a peculiar DMCA takedown request. Paramount claims in the notice that the URL links to infringing content, but there are no links to torrents or even other torrent sites on Torrentz’ homepage. The meta-search engine has filed a counterclaim and is waiting for Google to respond.

paramountEvery week copyright holders send millions of DMCA takedown notices to Google, hoping to make pirated movies and music harder to find.

Unfortunately not all of these notices are correct.

Because of the high number of often automated notices, neither the copyright holder nor the recipient can check the validity of all requests, leading to questionable take-downs.

This problem is illustrated by a recent DMCA notice sent to Google on behalf of movie studio Paramount.

The notice in question alerts Google to the existence of alleged pirated versions of “Jack Reacher” and “Rise of the Guardians” listed on the homepage of BitTorrent search engine Torrentz.eu. Interestingly, however, Torrentz doesn’t list any links to torrent files on its homepage.


Paramount’s DMCA notice

google-torrentz

The only thing Torrentz users see on the homepage is a search box and a tag cloud of popular searches. While it is possible that the movie titles were listed in the tag cloud at one point, it would take at least three clicks before someone could reach an actual link to a torrent file.

The proper way to ask for a takedown would be to list the torrent detail page, which lists the hash of the torrent and links to websites where these files can be found online. An example would be this page for the documentary TPB-AFK.

In other words, Paramount’s request appears to be a bit broad, to say the least.

Torrentz informs TorrentFreak that they’ve sent Google a counter-notice, and they are waiting to hear back. The torrent meta-search engine further stresses that it adheres to the DMCA and takes down links when they’re asked to.

It will be interesting to see how Google responds to the counter-notice. Previously the search engine refused to put back the homepage of movie streaming site Movie2K even though the original infringing links were no longer present.

Sending DMCA notices for homepages seems to be a trend. Many movie streaming sites have seen their main URLs targeted recently. BitTorrent site Kat.ph was also targeted last week.

That said, the above examples are different from Torrentz as these sites feature specific links (to links) to many other copyrighted works.

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  • Guest

    Given the Prenda Law debacle it hardly matters.
    Pretty soon there wont be a law company willing to take on suits instigated by the studios. Even their own defence teams will run shy.
    Good days and proxies ahead. No worries.

    • bobmail

      Put down the pipe. Prenda doesn’t even start to represent anyone in the industry, except mostly for washed up porn companies.

      • MadAsASnake

        Except that is the same model being peddled in HADOPI, 6 strikes and so on…

      • icec0ld

        Except the methods they use are exactly the kind used by the rest of the industry and judge has decided to drive a very big stake through the heart of “IP = a person” for evidence.

      • IDIOCRACY

        “except mostly for washed up porn companies”
        which make up for about 80% of all torrents (ok that was a lie,.. but at least 50%) So Bobby, guess you were watching the mirror when you mentioned the pipe did you… hehe

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        Do you want us to post your previous comments regarding Prenda – where you described them as “righteous defenders of justice”?

        And should we then go on to compare Prenda to ACS:Law? or perhaps to the other “industry representatives” who’ve been washed out of courts recently?

        Bobmail, looks to me you’re rapidly running out of heroes to adore, given how much Prenda resembles the average copyright enforcement agency.

        • bobmail

          PLease point out where I called them “righteous defenders of justice”.

          You won’t be able to, because you are FULL OF SHIT

        • dropin

          I like to read Scary_Devil comments.
          They are concise and knowledgeable unlike yours.
          I would guess that you are the one,
          FULL OF SHIT.

        • Guest

          residing to personal offence are we?

        • Hector

          “”because you are FULL OF SHIT”"

          That comment coming from someone who is full of it himself, now that’s priceless.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          http://torrentfreak.com/scammers-extort-bittorrent-users-posing-as-law-enforcement-130222/

          bobmail • 21 days ago
          What the fuck does it matter who does the law enforcement? Any money sent toagencies in the name of copyright enforcement is money that people won’t be using for pirating, even though pirating costs nothing. You just made the hit list of the RIAA, boys. Stomping on these righteous organisations will get you nowhere.

          Now, you already made the call that anyone trying to collect money, even scam artists, are legit.

          Anything else you’d like to lie about while puffing your chest and screaming?

          While you’re at it, we’d like to have a word on how you personally define “lying sack of shit”. So far it seems to mean anyone presenting the facts in your own little world.

        • Guest321

          lol you pawned old Bobby bigtime. I guess he’s looking for a hole to hide in right now.

        • UraPhake

          “I guess he’s looking for a hole to hide in right now.”
          ===
          You mean…for his gerbil to hide in, right?

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Not likely. Nejtillpirater was fairly infamous for contradicting his own previous arguments.

          To the point where we pirates could simply copypaste his own previous argument on top of his latest inflamed stance.

          This “deterministic relativity” appears to be an endemic part of pro-copyright sectarianism. The belief that moral ground can be conveniently moved at will seems to be an article of faith.

        • SoundnuoS

          Having problems separating real Bobmail from fake Bobmail again?

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Not really, no. bobmail has come out in defense of mass extortion based on ip and nonexistent evidence four or five times in the last year alone.

          Now, if we are to assume every time “bobmail” posts something verifiably insane or contradictory that it’s a troll doing the job, then we are left with the conclusion that there are four or five fake bobmails and an equal amount of “real” ones.

          All of which use similar syntactical structure and get offended in much the same way.

          Which would in extension mean “Anon” and “Nonamthanks” fall in the same category.

          Are you trying to make the argument that the vast majority of the pro-copyright posts on TF are made by a raging horde of trolls, leaving you and PelouzeTF as the only two bona fide defenders of the copyright “church”?

          If so that in itself is not a good sign.

        • Kuntandthegang

          Here you go… links right to your comment where you say “righteous defenders of justice”. Hardeharharhar

          http://torrentfreak.com/paramount-censors-torrentzs-torrentless-homepage-from-google-130315/#comment-830106093

        • Who

          Scary_Devil_Monastery just BURNED you. HAHA

        • Ardvaark

          you seem to be resorting to that kind of thing lately.

          “I can’t fight back so I’ll ask for evidence and pray they don’t bother to look back or do the research instead of me”

          Like when you asked for proof of free speech limitations from copyright yesterday.

        • Funny

          That’s just because these bloody pirates have the courts in their back pocket.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Yep, and according to copyright church adherents we penniless pirates have spent billions on trying to sway those courts over the last decade – while of course anyone questioning copyright and it’s stalwart defenders is one single paid astroturfer named “Mary” commenting, churning out fiendishly cunning and factual refutals by the dozen under twelve different nicknames.

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    • ScrewEwe2

      etetetwettset retretretretert?

      • UraPhake

        Sounds like a gerbil stuck in a hole.

  • bobmail

    I am suspecting the tag cloud is what does it, as that page links to lists of torrents on the same site.

    • bobmail

      Since I can’t edit..

      Let me add that the current page has “tags” such as “wreck it ralph” and “big bang theory”, which clearly seems to be a link to infringing content.

      • icec0ld

        Except those will only take you to a search page of the content requiring you to select a link and then you are on the infringing page.

        Did you actually read the article? This deduction is pointed out and explained in much the way I have.

      • IANAL

        So now just the type written word is enough for a DMCA take down? “Wreck it Ralph” <—DMCA this you fucks

      • IDIOCRACY

        No bobby, lay down the pipe and check it out before you squeal. The mentioned link, links to a page with links to torrentsites that have the link to the torrent or the magnetic link, just like google..duh….and this is not even funny… come on we are used to better laugh generating content of yours.. hehe (and I am NOT mary ….)

        • IDIOCRACY

          Sorry forgot one…links to a page with possible links to links to torrentsites with links to magnet url or torrents.

          so google is even worse… (sorry for that bobby, was too fast on the keyboard) but do you get the point and do you see how stupid your post was…. hehe (still not mary

        • bobmail

          It’s links within the site, essentially stuff they control. They put the tag cloud there to help users and also to “feed the bots” with keywords to get more search traffic. Those links go within the site, not to somewhere else. They know what they are linking to.

        • Anyone

          the cloud tag is simply what users are searching for
          sure, they could censor it, but then what’s the point, it wouldn’t show what’s popular anymore, it would just show what isn’t censored yet.

          they don’t have control over what their users are doing

        • bobmail

          It’s not the point – I don’t want them to censor anything. I am only point out that this sort of think likely got them ranked on google for certain searches, which is why their home page has been DMCA’ed.

        • funny

          Being ranked well for certain searches has nothing to do with DMCA, get your head checked.

        • bobmail

          Being a torrent site, and getting ranked well for movie related searches because you provide people the way to get pirated materials… well, yeah, that can be DMCA’ed. Ask Google’s lawyers.

        • funny

          But it’s not a torrent site, it is a search engine.

        • funny

          Google has reverted the changes and torrentz.eu is again in its index. What now bobby?

        • PhoQueue

          They’re not a torrent site, they’re a search engine. They’re being DMCA’d for supplying search results which show up in search results. But it’s not the search results themselves getting DMCA’d it’s the provider of the results via the provider of the results which show up the providers.

          I don’t think even DMCA supporters can really make that tenuous connection stick.

        • Doofus

          Which part of NO INFRINGING MATERIAL OR FILES is so hard to understand? Unless you think an http link is now unlawful? Just how do you suppose we get from A to B on the net if http suddenly becomes a “facilitating factor”.

          In other news, a bank was robbed today, the robbers used a road to escape. Henceforth all roads are deemed illegal. Move along citizen.

        • bobmail

          Google indexes everything, they aren’t “worse”, they are about the same – and Google respects DMCA complaints and removes things.

          Thanks for explaining why they should remove torrentz.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          And in this case they removed a DMCA-compliant page containing nothing for which a DMCA could be said to be valid.

          Apparently, in your little world, the DMCA itself must be wrong about what makes a DMCA takedown notice valid.

          As usual highly entertaining, Baghdad Bob.

        • Anyone

          torrentz also responds to DMCA-complaints

          read the article at least before you troll

      • Ardvaark

        Breaking news: Having Tag clouds is now copyright infringement.

        Hide your kids, Hide your wife cuz they’re getting everyone out there!

        Seriously, the fact that a freaking cloudtag is enough for an automated system to send a DMCA notice shows how flawed the whole process itself is.

        And the fact that a DMCA like that with no proof whatsoever is enough to be considered valid shows how flawed the law is, where even reversal of burden of proof is applied.

      • PhoQueue

        So if I link to this it’s clearly infringing what exactly?

        http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang/

    • ggg

      yes but its 3x deep in this case

      “While it is possible that the movie titles were listed in the tag cloud at one point, it would take at least three clicks before someone could reach an actual link to a torrent file.”

      Its basically like saying “this file is there somewhere, we will not look but take it down”

      When is hybrid net coming out? Secure anonamous storage along with domains that can’t be hijacked or overran by whoever. Like if i want whatever content and just b/c they say no u can’t have it, that does not make me not want it. I should be able to go to content.whatever and get it, in other words they should not remove stuff from web b/c they do not want u to see it

    • Scary_Devil_Monastery

      Go back and read the article once more.

      What we’re actually seeing is a claim that even mentioning a title by name, anywhere, is enough to get you a takedown notice. Not a good thing.

  • ee

    Google will open his eyes when it will be already late and all what remain in his index is few crappy sites , time for some real alternative to popup

  • Funny

    This is funny, if it’s all automated from receiving the DMCA claim to removing *all* links and if a studio “mistakenly” lists http://google.com as the infighting URL would google deindex itself?

    • One-Eyed Willie

      Might be one of those paradox things and the computer blows up when it realizes that it is the evil that must be destroyed.

  • Mr Magoo

    I do not understand what is happening to humanity. It seems that everyone gets upset when it comes to copyright. Here in Brazil, subscriber channel, not all channels have free access to the site with the films of the channel grid. And have free access channel, Sony’s Crackle, but the movies are old and the series too. I think the problem has no solution. It will be like on broadcast TV. With malls like Crackle. We always depend upon the programming of them. No way … unless PIRACY?! They have the right to produce and make available as they wish. They seem to be right, but I feel it is not “FAIR”. It’s my opinion. You may disagree and that’s fine.

  • dod

    it shows me the result good lol :)

  • est

    can we use another search engine than google …a non american …search engine only for torrents ?

    • dribble

      dogpile

      • icec0ld

        I’d use it if the first 5 results were not ads

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Freeda-Weed/100001728244194 Freeda Weed

      startpage, it is also https.

      • Anyone

        startpage is google

        • Retardeverywhere

          Startpage isn’t google, its Ixquick. Learn2internet

        • ScrewEwe2

          “Startpage offers you Web search results from Google in complete privacy! – When you search with Startpage, we remove all identifying information from your query and submit it anonymously to Google ourselves. We get the results and return them to you in total privacy.”

          Sounds pretty Googley to me. Learn2interwebz

          https://startpage.com/

        • zarathustra2k1

          https://startpage.com/uk/protect-privacy.html

          “Startpage, and its sister search engine Ixquick, are the only third-party certified search engines in the world that do not record your IP address or track your searches.”

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          duckduckgo people. can’t get much cleaner then this.

          http://i.imgur.com/UbUieA3.png

        • ScrewEwe2

          Very true. I use Startpage as my home page on a couple of my browsers. As I’ve said before, if you’re looking for an explanation of what a bomb is, Google is fine to use, but if you’re trying to find out how to build a bomb, Google probably isn’t fine to use.

    • Funny

      http://www.yandex.ru/ in soviet russia search engine searches you.

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        Baidu. Your torrent served with fresh shrimp crackers and the latest news of what the Good Government does for you.

      • IvanTheIrritable

        That is funny, mainly because it’s so ironic that Google really DOES search you.

  • dribble

    If I were paramount I would send a notice to take down googles main page. After all typing in the search box will find an infringing file.

    • Guest321

      When HBO sent a DMCA notice to censor its own site, Google didn’t do it, claiming it as a mistake on HBO’s part. Yet when Paramount asks Google to censor Torrentz’s homepage which has no infringing link, Google has no problem obliging. WTF? Do I smell double standards?

      I am one of the biggest Google supporters around but the more I hear stories like this, the more I am losing faith in them.

      We know the MAFIAA is corrupt to the core but Google isn’t helping themselves by siding with those criminals rather the people who help them earn revenue.

      • better

        use bing oe starpage

        • Andyman

          Bing sucks – no matter how much more money M$ throws at it or what kind of advertising they spend to prove otherwise.

        • highboi

          Does bing really suck or are you just a google fanboy? Kind of how most iOS users say androids suck and vice versa

        • Anyone

          it’s Microsoft
          how good can it be?

        • highboi

          Good enough to provide me with what I search for, I’m no fanboy I just prefer uncensored results over censored ones

        • Anyone

          bing is also DMCA compliant, so it’s not a real alternative

        • highboi

          Yes true BUT mafiaas not spamming their dcma system …yet

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          Bing is just another advertising system for microsoft.

          Use duckduckgo.

          lol.

        • highboi

          i acutally use chillingeffect.org ^_^

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          +1 to that.

        • Brandon Hope

          Bing is horrible, I have to use it at school since they block HTTPS and google defaults to HTTPS. I can never find the relevant information I want, it constantly “mistakes” what I wanted for their products, search for some Mplayer configs, you get Windows Media center.

        • highboi

          Imgur.com/4rZAjUj

          I doubt being mobile has anything to do with it

        • ScrewEwe2

          I agree 100%. As an example, if you’re looking for the most up to date crack to get around the Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Edition WGA crap, Bing is terrible, and that is understandable, but if you use Google or Startpage, you’ll find what you’re looking for pretty easily. It’s no different than when America Online would try to keep their subscribers in AOL land. And yes, I do know that Office 2007 is old news. I gave AOL dial up a 45 minute free trial back in 1998 and it sucked ass.

        • Andyman

          Bing sucks and so does iOS.

        • highboi

          Yea, sounds like a fanboy to me, next you’ll be saying crapple and microshit

      • Nejtillpirater

        And your point is ?

      • JG

        I doubt it’s intentional on Google’s part – at least the initial block; we’ll see how well the counter-claim goes….

        Google is getting hundreds of thousands of take down requests a day…. I doubt even Google has the man power to review every submission manually (see the 2nd or 3rd paragraph in the article). They’ve probably got a white list of several main-stream legit domains (iTunes, Amazon, HBO, etc) that get ignored when the bot processes the take-down request. Everything else gets removed from their database. Which would be why they discovered HBO trying to censor themselves, but torrentzs got blocked.

        I’m not really sure who exactly has the ability to mediate the counter-claim. If Google can just say “Yeah, there’s no files here, your back” or if Paramount has to OK it, or ….

    • Boring Phil

      *sends Google a questionable pantsdown request*

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  • UraPhake

    Paramount and bobmail are simply terrified of hamsters.
    But I hear they like gerbils — a LOT!

  • anonymous

    it doesn’t matter whether there are links or not, copyrighted files or not, because there are no penalties for issuing false take down requests or demands, the entertainment industries just issue them anyway. if their were consequences for them, the same as there are for everyone else, they wouldn’t be so keen to do it. this applies as well when a person or site is put in a bankrupting position defending themselves, which the industries dont give a shit about. ruining someone for doing nothing wrong doesn’t matter to these fucking ass holes! as usual though, it takes someone with power and who isn’t being bribed by these same industries to make changes. unfortunately, therefore, nothing is going to happen!

    • bobmail

      There are big penalties for false claims, but there has to be proof that the false claims were made with bad faith. Good luck on that.

      • Anyone

        so basically there are no penalties

        this censorship law has to finally be revoked before it does even more damage

        • bobmail

          No there are penalties, but it’s not just for “oops”, exactly in the same manner that an innocent host can knowingly use copyright material, and then just say “oops”.

          it balances out.

        • dropin

          “it balances out”

          False takedown = Perjury

          Perjury is the willful act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing.

        • Anyone

          since we’ve seen time and time again that these companies simply send crawled links and many of them are simply wrong it easily is “bad faith”

          and since there is no penalty for that, there is no penalty whatsoever

          this whole system is broken, the MAFIAA should not have the power to censor the internet just because they can’t compete on the free market

        • Who

          actually there is punishments for abusing the law but they are rarely enforced.

      • Guest321

        Is this one of your fantastical interpretations of the law? Bad faith? Are we supposed to read the people’s mind or what? I don’t see how anyone can prove something is done in good faith or bad faith. Only the guilty party knows what his intentions were and we know MAFIAA’s intentions can never be good.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Actually, from google’s statistics, we can see a clear correlation which implies most of the DMCA senders are both fully aware that thousands opf their claims are bogus – and refuse to do anything about it despite being aware of fundamental flaws in their verification process.

          Any auditor finding legal notices sent on such a basis would come down like a ton of bricks. Bad faith is actually easy to prove, if you have, say, statistics collated from millions of takedown notices – and correspondence which means the senders are aware of the problem.

      • Victor

        “”but there has to be proof that the false claims were made with bad faith. Good luck on that.”"

        That comes across that you take pleasure when the copyright holders go after the innocent who have not done anything wrong.

      • highboi

        According to the screen shot, vobile had 3 links to check for a vadility. Not to mention the 3 links were pretty much replicas of each other. Your telling me vobile either a) checked the site, saw a direct link to the 2 movies(not possible as mentioned in the article) and files a complaint? Or b) knows what the site is capable of, post a fake claim and said it was in good faith and hopes the mafiaa at least offers vobile a reach around tonight.

      • Who

        there also has to be proof for actual copyright infringement and there never is.

  • DoNoEvil?

    STOP USING GOOGLE.

    Now I’ve got that off my chest, I recommend the following: Start using a decent search engine that doesn’t store every search you ever make. Stop using a search engine who’s primary business model is selling YOU to advertisers. Ditch the free stuff they give you so YOU can stop being a product.

    I recommend Ixquick (or Startpage if you just can’t kick the google habit because you’re so brainwashed and weak). You could try DuckDuckGo too. Fuck, even Bing is better than Google. Just stop.

    • DoobyDoo

      Bing better then Google?, good crack your on there

      • Guest

        I agree. man, if you’re advising to stop being a slave to the corporation, don’t exchange one for another.

        • DoNoEvil?

          Bing is microsoft, microsoft have a proven track record at being completely inept. They don’t give a fuck about piracy of their Operating System either.

          Google are unparalleled in fucking up your privacy. Google pander to the man, you’ve just read about it in this article.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          No more than any other company does and you damned well better realize that ALL search engines keep a fuckton of information on you.

        • DoNoEvil?

          Wrong! Read the Ixquick privacy statement and stop spreading bullshit. They are a Dutch company and have to comply with EU privacy laws which automatically means they are better than US search engines.

          https://ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html

        • Who

          re-read it…

          Information Sharing

          “Ixquick does not share personal information with any third party search engine or the provider of its sponsored results. Click here
          for details.

          Ixquick only shares personal information with third parties when obligated to do so by law (e.g. official court order or subpoena), or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Ixquick, its users or the general public as required by law.”

          so they must collect something if they even bother to say this. they say collective data of searches is recorded, so not sure if they are actually not recording or if they are just blowing smoke.

        • Who

          “Microsoft…….They don’t give a fuck about piracy of their Operating System either”

          wow yep another ill educated fool you are. if they didn’t give a shit about people making copies of there OS then Y the FUCK do they bother putting “do not make illegal copy’s of this disk” on the fucking cd’s?

        • Anonymous

          you think thats going to stop anything? you’re a Microshit tool

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        Actually, he has a point. Every search engine will deliver different results because they all list, index, and rank based on different criteria.

        Ixquick is a good option.

        • ITakeAPotatoChipAndEatIt

          Except that Bing will automatically up-rank anything related to microsoft.

          Microsoft is already well known to be against FOSS.

      • highboi

        Nothing is better than google because everyone uses google, but if google keeps kissing ass, bing will provide uncensored search results thus effectively naming bing a better search engine in terms if results. Once this happens everyone will use bing. Now that bing is oh so popular here comes mafiaa coming to take control, doing to bing what it is doing to google now and a vicious cycle begins.

      • Who

        Google ONLY tracks you when you are logged in.

        • DoNoEvil?

          WRONG! Google tracks IP addresses. They also track your Operating Sys, your browser, what search terms you look for, what url’s you click. You can’t really be so naive can you?

        • Who

          you sure about that? Ive been told by a load of IT pro’s that they only track you when you are logged in to there services. and according to this that is true http://rt.com/news/google-privacy-policy-tracking-671/

    • io

      i got a new home page thanks

  • PUA – SVM

    They still think that this will stop piracy??

    bwahahahahahahahaha

  • Mr Magoo

    Give a try to the search site:

    http : / / www . astalavista . ms /

    without the spaces.

  • ScrewEwe2

    It’s a search engine. Nothing more, nothing less. All search engines should be allowed to index what is on the interwebz without restrictions. Whether people investigate those links further or not, is a different matter in regards to legality, matters of conscience or social acceptance, and corporations or governments should not be allowed to try and whitewash those search results by arbitrarily forcing the removal of those search results.

    It’s also a costly waste of time, because most people will find what they’re looking for if they’re determined enough.

  • Arrie

    Time for TPB to launch an uncensored web-search engine.

  • http://www.facebook.com/forkingham.melle Forkingham Melle

    wankers. meanwhile try torrent zzzzzzz dotttttt eu

  • townie2

    Google has to grow a set, or risk losing users very soon, people are getting sick of this.

    • Scary_Devil_Monastery

      I keep saying, what Google did to Yahoo could as easily be done to Google.

      And losing 20% of the online community – the filesharers – isn’t going to leave a market gap small enough for google to just ignore.

  • Anon77

    This appears to be a fraudulent claim by Vobile Inc. The should be sued, fined and made an example of. Looks like mothing more than a cheap trick to remove a whole site from Google without any effort required.

    Time to repeal the DMCA laws and change your homepages to a new search engine.

  • Marshall

    Congratulations Hollywood on dropping another one of your turds in your own punch bowl.

  • Guest

    Vote with your wallet stop giving money to MAFIAA.

    • metalkiwis

      This, so much. I haven’t spent a penny on recorded music or movies and I canceled cable years ago. We are funding a war against ourselves.

  • AlbertWesker_666

    DMCA is an American Law what compels Foreign countries to obey the DMCA as if it were their own ?

    • highboi

      USA allies have to listen or they become USA enemies aka threats

    • Violated0

      The EU also has the EUCD (European Union Copyright Directive) which is their version of the DMCA. Obviously any take-down notice to an EU bases business should be following the EUCD.

      Going after other companies like those in Hong Kong becomes largely more complex.

  • downloader

    MPAA…I don’t use Google = HAHA BURN! you LOOSE.

    I got Torrentz to pull up right @ the top of the page to.

    • highboi

      Because they reverted the delisting of the site

      • downloader

        um…no…..it don’t pull up in Google dude. it pulls up in MY search engine tho…TOP of the page.

        • highboi

          I just googled “torrentz” and the site shows therefore it was reverted, you can argue with me all day or you can scroll and read the other comments that states it was reverted

        • downloader

          http://tinyurl.com/adyaove

          reverted? hmmmm you using the same Google to check? @ the bottem of the page it says it was removed do to a DMCA request.

        • highboi

          I’m 110% sure it’s google.com and its strange the link you sent shows torrentz as first result WITH the dcma notice at the bottom

          Just logged on my desktop and same thing, so it’s not a mobile issue

        • highboi
        • Techanon

          torrentz.eu/search is not the site’s homepage. It wasn’t included in the DMCA complaint either.

        • highboi

          Oh shit how did I missed that /facepalm

  • Who

    Oooooo you really hurt me MPAA…..NOT!

  • Oblong of Orange

    Cheeky buggers. Have they no shame?

  • PhoQueue

    Hmmm, let’s have a look at that list of companies who no longer receive my patronage. Paramount… tick!

  • Darkhog

    Because of Paramount’s douchery, I am pirating all Star Trek series and movies to this date RIGHT NOW.

  • dk

    Another one to go on my “this is how censorship starts” list

  • ahmede

    paramount blocket kat.ph homepage also

  • Violated0

    This is no different from Paramount asking Google to censor the Google homepage and I hope Google realises that. Should Google aim for perfection then they should just tell Paramount “Torrentz follows the DMCA and EUCD so talk to them and not us”

    Here is a perfect example of how they handle protecting from infringement when they don’t handle infringement at all but just attack the key points that enable infringement. I don’t even want to count how many links are between the Torrentz home page and real infringement when it is quite mind boggling. The truth is of course is that if every BT site had removed every link to infringement overnight then Torrentz would have no link problems WITHOUT REMOVING ANYTHING well highlighting that this ain’t their bag.

    Had Paramount wanted to take Torrentz to Count then the Judge would just spend the next week laughing his butt off. There is no way to link Torrent to infringement or the promotion of it. Torrentz should of course be careful what they stick on their home page.

    Well under the DMCA Paramount has just committed an act of perjury which once again highlights that the Copyright Cartels are massive law breakers who only abuse their monopoly to harass the market.

  • Anon

    The DMCA is no longer working. It’s time for an internet ID “drivers license” system, with accountability to what you upload/download and the comments you make in public and the links you post. The responsibility will migrate to the source and server as it should be, a simple and natural accountability to your choices that mirrors existing law, bringing relief to the rights holders who must play increasingly expensive wack-a-mole, with the inevitable attendant errors, to defend their legal rights.

    Think this is not achievable? Seriously? Read your history.
    Accountability comes to all human endeavour in a civilized society. It’s early, yet, and we are in process.
    Watch and learn.

    • Anyone

      why should everyone be surveilled online?

      just because some morons can’t compete on the free market and demand that everyone else pays their costs? (such as Google in this case)

      if only the MAFIAA would wake up and adapt their business model to reality there would be no “piracy problem”. there is no need to throw away all our freedoms just so that they can afford their 4th yacht

    • Who

      na what needs to happen is the MPAA/RIAA needs to stop using this unlawful version of the US copyright act http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf as well as just using this http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf and start using the correct and LEGAL version http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ law and everything would be just fine.

      “Watch and learn”

      YOU are defiantly in for a RUDE awakening MR

      • Who

        well it seams that now they have revised the US copyright act site now to the unlawful reversion of the copyright act. current reversion violates the US constitution as well as other US laws

        there watching US. but like Im scared.

    • joexxx

      Good. I’ll be in charge of the system and you will not get a license. Deal?

    • http://thepiratebay.se/user/SCSA420 StoneCold420

      YOU are a complete moron and an utter FOOL who doesn’t have the brains GOD gave Animal crackers. Now JUST BRING IT BITCH!!!

  • davemustaine

    This is Vobile.. not Paramount

    • Violated0

      None of these big media corporations actually do any DMCA take-down notices themselves in such regards.

      They set up a series of shell companies where there would several hard to trace link companies between Paramount and Vobile. So then Vobile can abuse the law to do censorship galore but if they are ever sued then Paramount can then close Vobile to establish a new Vobile #2,

      So Paramount is as safe as you can get without some Court pulling these companies apart one by one and tracing the control links.

  • iMeZiV0x

    Dear Paramount,
    As per your DMCA request, I hereby request that you censor http://www.paramount.com and subsequently https://www.youtube.com/user/Paramount/videos. This is because it links to YouTube, for which I can use YouTube to search for other material that may or may not be infringing. I cannot ascertain this as I really can’t be arsed to list the material or the links. However, this can be found by using http://www.paramount.com so as per DMCA, you should censor yourself.

    Thanks kindly.

  • Guest

    They’re using Vobile? No wonder some dumb ish like that happened, Vobile’s scanning software/crawlers are pretty booty.

  • anonymous

    any update on this? i assume that, as usual, Google are behaving in their normal ‘we have to do what the entertainment industries say and screw the rest of our gazillions of customers!’ way.

  • Filino Rupro

    I think Google deserves a lesson!
    Change to http://www.faroo.com/

  • GeneSam

    Bing search is great

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  • who

    just found this one which blocks the whole of kat.,ph. they need to throw these out of court, http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=829252.

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