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VIDEO · 03 MARCH 2015

A DMCA Plan For Dealing With The Total Wipes Out There (Video Content)

Last week, TorrentFreak reported on the world’s most idiotic copyright complaint by a company called Total Wipes.

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Stites & Harbison PLLC
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Last week, TorrentFreak reported on the world's most idiotic copyright complaint by a company called Total Wipes. Total Wipes is a German company that sends automated copyright infringement takedown notices to Google and other companies. Total Wipes apparently has had a few glitches in its automation over the years, once sending takedown notices based on articles with the word "hide" in them. According to an email apology from Total Wipes (kindly provided by ArsTechnica), the latest glitch was based on articles with the word "download" in them. Considering the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that Total Wipes sent approximately 12,000 copyright takedown notices to Google in the last month alone: Yikes!

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