Hollywood wants frontpage Mega removed from Google

In recent dmca notices, a number of American media companies have asked Google to remove the front page of Mega from the search results. According to Warner and NBC Universal, among others, Mega hosts illegal content.

Recently, some very notable takedown notices have surfaced: media companies NBC Universal and Warner have filed takedown requests to remove Mega’s home page entirely, though it does not link to any allegedly illegal material. According to dmca requests from Warner and NBC Universal would link the root of mega.co.nz to the movie Mama. Google has detected the error in the supplied list and decided to keep Mega, the successor of the illustrious cyberlocker MegaUpload, in the search results.

Copyright holders send millions of dmca requests to Google every week. It requests that URLs to illegal material be removed from the search results of the internet giant. The majority of these URLs are generated and delivered automatically, and mistakes are made.

Kim Dotcom, the millionaire and founder of Mega, late to TorrentFreak know that Warner and NBC Universal are trying to censor its new cyberlocker service, which they believe is consistent with the content industry’s behavior in recent years. In addition, according to Dotcom, up to 20 percent of all dmca requests contain errors, which means that legal content from services such as Mega is forced to be removed.