Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Microsoft Asks Google to Take Down Microsoft.com

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Corporations are too busy these days to sniff out copyright infringements. Many rely on automated systems to generate Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requestsMicrosoft, for example, uses LeakID, which resulted in a delightful faux pas: It tried to censor itself.


The offending links listed in the complaint direct to the official Microsoft.com, encompassing various French-language product and technical support pages. So the company was right to be suspicious: They have Microsoft in France? Microsoft offers technical support? It all sounds pretty fishy on this end.




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