Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns

There really needs to be an immediate financial cost associated with incorrect DMCA takedowns.<p>For instance, the entity the requests are made of (in this case Google) should be able to claim money for every false take down request.

So basically, this is a way for movie/music studios to remove bad reviews from the public eye?

I hope Google did take down the official content, just like their owner asked! That might push the industry to take a harder look at their DMCA takedown automation.

Aren't DMCA takedowns notices made under penalty of perjury? Why are they being sent out in what seems to be an automated fashion without any proper review?

This is another instance of those 'clbuttic' mistakes someone can make when they learn regular expressions and think they can easily censor things they don't like.

From the list of "Infringing URLs" for Wrath of the Titans at <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=291695" rel="nofollow">http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=291695</a>:<p>17. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646987/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1646987/</a><p>32. <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/wrathofthetitans/" rel="nofollow">http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/wrathofthetitans/</a><p>37. <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/344340/wrath-of-the-titans---clip---we-are-bothers-but-not-equal" rel="nofollow">http://www.hulu.com/watch/344340/wrath-of-the-titans---clip-...</a><p>These copyright holders either have non-internet people doing their grunt work, or bots. I don't know which one makes them look dumber.

Does anyone else think they've started to just google whatever they're looking for - then submit a takedown for every url in the results? How else do you submit a takedown for a wikipedia page with a straight face?

This is probably the best thing these studios did on the Internet.