metlin's Journal: Google removes non-DMCA compliant pages?

Just submitted this as a story - wonder if it would get accepted, but here it is for all ye' folks beforehand ;-)

I was searching for Tetris Source Code on Google when I came across a message at the bottom of the search results that informed me that certain results had been removed because of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Further probing revealed that the removed sites were mirroring copyrighted work, and hence removed. So, if I complain that some website is mirroring my content and I'm unhappy with it, does that mean Google will remove the indexing of the offensive content? Given that Google is the ubiquitous search engine today, this could have far reaching consequences. Scary, considering that this could be misused in so many ways (SCO and Genome sequences, anyone?).

Update: And oh, here is the screenshot of the said search. And oh, Slashdot did not accept the story, either :)

Weird

[Frisky070802]

I could see Google declining to cache said data, but refusing to point to its existence is another level entirely. Your story ought to be accepted! Myself, I keep a copy of submissions, and post to my blog here only once it gets bounced :).

Re:Weird

[metlin]

Guess what? It got rejected :)

Trust Slashdot editors to do something like this.

Oh well!

Re:Weird

[cygnusx]

This is actually old news (and slashdot has covered it before [slashdot.org]). Am still surprised that Tetris source would be the target of a DMCA complaint though.

Re:Weird Alexy Pahzitnov

[adzoox]

I think he has been going after the "brickies" people lately. Have you noticed how many dime store doodad electronics have a form of tetris on them? It's astounding that Chinese and Tiawanese manufacturers just steal code and put them into their "multi ASICs" as much as they do.

"Slashdot did not accept the story, either :)"

I got on their bad side and now any submission or comment I make on a pudge or micheal story is moderated troll until it reaches metamod.

I often write stories for Mac websites and ac