It's DMCA Notices All The Way Down

Adam Holland, April 11, 2013

Abstract: In which requests to Google to remove links include a link to a takedown notice already sent, possibly triggering an infinitely recursive series.

Let's hope this doesn't give the web, or at least the content industry, a stack overflow!

The team here at Chilling Effects felt like we had to call your attention to this, it's just too perfectly ironic.
The Fox Legal Group (20th Century Fox, the Fox Network, etc.] sent what would otherwise be a routine set of takedown notices to Google. It says a lot that these days, "routine" means a single request asking for the removal of almost 3000 URLs. Of course, excess in this realm is the new normal.

You'll notice that #23 on the list of links to be removed lists one here at chillingeffects.org as the domain in question.
What link at Chilling Effects do they want down?

This.

Yes, you are reading that correctly. They want Google's link to their own earlier takedown notice removed.

This has happened to us here before, but not usually in so oblivious a fashion.
As TorrentFreak points out, this is a classic example of the dangers inherent in fully automating copyright proceedings. The bots know no discretion.

We'll have to see if this begins to happen more often, or if the largest notice senders are able to come up with a fix for this. Of course, that brings us to the question of whether they even want to.

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