Legal Watchdog Group Uncovers 300 Apparently Pirated Films Viewed More than 22 Million Times on Google Video
Source: National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC)
Today, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) sent a report to members of Congress detailing their research effort to examine the extent of apparent copyright violations on Google Video.
Earlier this summer, the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) researched the extent of copyrighted material being hosted on Google Video and released a “Top 50†list of apparently copyrighted movies. In the latest “spot check†of the site conducted from September 10 to September 18, NLPC discovered 300 additional instances of apparently copyrighted films, including over 60 movies released this year. Several popular summer releases including Shrek the Third, Oceans Thirteen, The Bourne Ultimatum, and Knocked Up were easily found on the video sharing site. Receiving more than 22 million views in the past year, the 300 apparently pirated films as well as many other copyrighted works continue to make their way to Google Video despite Google’s cited claim that it respects the rights of copyright holders and is continuing to take the lead in providing state-of-the-art tools for all copyright holders to identify and remove their intellectual property from the site.
+ NLPC Letter to Members of Congress (PDF; 122 KB)
+ Database of 300 Movies Found on Google Video (PDF; 226 KB)
+ Movie Screenshots (PDFs)
See Also: We have pointed out several times that thousands of tv shows from around the world as well as full length movies are available online by way of what the Wall Street Journal calls “guerilla sites.” For example, Alluc.org, TV Links and others offer directories to where to find the content. It’s worth mentioning that Alluc.org and other sites have been mentioned in The NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian. It will be interesting to watch (no pun intended) to see if the content owners begin to force sites hosting this content to remove it. It will be a neverending job. Once it’s removed from Site A with a DMCA request, it will then move to Site B. A non-stop cat and mouse game.
See Also: It’s a Living: Viewing Web Video for Copyright Violations
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