HBO Asks Google to Take Down “Infringing” VLC Media Player

Why not some sort of suspension system?<p>Request take down of something you don&#x27;t own -&gt; you can&#x27;t invoke DMCA for a month. That should be a deterrent.

The DCMA takedown process is broken, the burden is on services to proved their innocence and there are little or no consequences for bogus takedowns

More telling is that they requested that their own website be removed. To me <i>that</i> should be the headline.

The takedown request outlined in the article contains a reference to VLC as distributed by a popular torrent tracker, and not VLC itself. While this is still overstepping the boundaries of copyright, it is disingenuous to say that HBO asked Google to take down VLC.

How is it possible that nobody is ever held accountable for such egregious mistakes?

&quot;VLC doesn&#x27;t pirate movies - People pirate movies&quot;