Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Microsoft derps itself

I guess that you'd call this an Intellectual Property Troll own goal:
Microsoft appears to have asked Google to remove some microsoft.com pages from Google's search engine.

TorrentFreak reportsthat LeakID, an organisation that provides services such as “Monitoring illegal links and sources” and “Send automated takedown notices to ISPs hosting infringing links and websites”, has sent Google a notice to stop indexing some pages on Microsoft's site because they infringe Microsoft's copyright.

The leaked takedown request, visible here makes for chucklesome reading, as the pages Microsoft requests be removed are entirely innocuous affairs like this description of Office 2010 Service Pack 1.
I'd mock them, but I think this came auto-mocked.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Clippy sez:

It looks like you're trying to make your company a laughingstock.

Would you like help?

* Get help making your company a laughingstock

* Just let your automated takedown notice service operate without help

[] Don't show me this tip again