Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:08:49 -0400 From: Seth Johnson To: C-FIT_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Release_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org, DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org, DMCA-Activists@gnu.org Cc: pho@onehouse.com Subject: [DMCA-Activists] Google Removes KaZaA Links in Response to DMCA Complaint > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/31/1349214.shtml?tid=153&tid=99 Google Removes Links in Response to DMCA Complaint Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 31, @11:08AM from the now-thats-just-scary dept. dioscaido (slashdot1.org@luisma.com) writes "If you search Google for Kazaa Lite (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=kazaa+lite), you'll find the results a bit lacking. Ironically enough, Sherman Networks, using the DMCA (http://www.google.com/dmca.html), filed a legal complaint to block Kazaa Lite sites (http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789). " Google links the DMCA request at the end of the results which contain the URLs in question, but the URLs aren't really the point. It's scary that the DMCA makes URLs a copyright violation. How long before libraries can't index books? Or own them? ---- > http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=789 Kazaa Owner Complains of Copyright Infringement August 11, 2003 Sender Information: Sharman Networks Sent by: [Private] Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP [private] Encino, CA, 94136, USA Recipient Information: Customer Support, DMCA Complaints Google Inc. Mountain View, CA, 94043, USA Sent via: Federal Express Re: NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Ladies and Gentlemen: We act on behalf of Sharman Networks, Ltd. (the "Owner"). As required under Sections 512(c)(3) and 512(d)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §§512(c)(3) and 512(d)(3)), we are instructed to place you on notice that: 1. The Owner is the exclusive owner of the copyrights in and to the Kazaa Media Desktop software (the "KMD"); and 2. Utilizing the search query, "kazaa," at www.google.com, the following search results (the "Infringing Material") contain unauthorized copies of the KMD or unauthorized derivative works of the KMD which infringe the KMD and the exclusive rights of the Owner: a. http://www.kazaagold.com b. http://mp3download.com c. http://www.kazaalite.tk d. http://www.kaaza.com e. http://doa2.host.sk f. http://www.k-lite.tk g. http://www.kazaa-file-sharing-downloads.com h. http://www.kazaalite.nl i. http://home/hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm j. http://www.kazaa-download.de k. http://www.zeropaid.com l. http//www.kazaalite.nl/downloads.htm m. http://kazaa.infos-du-net.com n. http://www.kazaa-lite.tk o. http://www.kazaa-lite.info Please immediately remove or disable all access to the Infringing Material. I have a good faith belief that the use of the Infringing Material is not authorized by the Owner, its agents or the law. The information in this Notice of Copyright Infringement is accurate and under penalty of perjury, I am authorized to act on behalf of the Owner. Should you require any further information regarding this matter, please contact me at the address, telephone number or email address indicated below: Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP [private] Encino, California 91436 Tel: (xxx) xxx-xxxx Email: [private]@biztechlaw.com Very truly yours, [private] image: http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?action=image_342 -- DRM is Theft! We are the Stakeholders! New Yorkers for Fair Use http://www.nyfairuse.org [CC] Counter-copyright: http://www.boson2x.org/article.php3?id_article=21 I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of exclusive rights.