Company That Issued Bogus Takedown Says It Was All A Mistake, Apologizes (Techdirt)
So, yesterday, as you may have heard, we wrote about how a totally bogus DMCA
takedown notice, coming from an “anti-piracy” firm called Armovore, deleted a
key Techdirt blog post about SOPA/PIPA from Google’s search results. That post
apparently got some attention within Google, who kicked off an expedited
review and reinstated our site and a few others. Soon after that, we got a
couple emails from folks at Armovore, and they also posted some comments to
the site, in which they apologized, and said that it was an “early” version of
the technology. To their credit, they “accept full responsibility for the
mistake” and insist that while that takedown was an automated keyword-based
effort, they now only do manual takedowns. They even apologized that multiple
people reached out to apologize.
Of course, the apology still involved a few statements that suggested they
were upset we even wrote the story, saying it was too “one-sided.” The first
email from the company also suggested that we shouldn’t be annoyed any more
since the story was added back to Google (ignoring that it wasn’t for a
month). They also say they haven’t made any money (“aside from …
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