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The irony is, I’ve never experienced DNS problems with invite only piracy sites with quality and quantity 100x the public ones. And doubly so, because I’m sure a lot of Sony employees use them.

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I wonder why companies like Sony only seem to be focusing on attacking small business. I remember if you wanted pirate content, Google itself was the best search engine for that. You could (and likely still can) find almost anything and yet these companies don't seem to be taking Google to court. Wonder why?

To add: this is not even a small business, but a non-profit with a security mission.

Google reportedly receives 2 million DMCA requests a day to take down content including pirate links on search.

It least at one point in the 2006-2010 range, Google would display a Chilling Effects link to the actual DMCA takedown request when some of your search results were censored by a DMCA takedown. The DMCA takedown request is required to specifically enumerate the censored URLs.

The end result was a DMCA takedown often resulted in an indirect "Certified by Sony" link to non-fake infringing copies.

The other two large recursive resolvers, Google and Cloudflare, are protected by the District Court of Northern California, and more generally, by US law. Although we didn't find out about it until last Friday, the court documents show that Sony got this attack underway just thirty-five days after we moved out from behind the shield of the US courts.

> I’m sure a lot of Sony employees use them.

Given enough time, we'll eventually see a case where a studio's master copy gets corrupted, backups are out of date, and the studio does its best by replacing a master with a high quality infringing copy.

I think at least some of this may boil down to the fact that there are people employed in positions that require them to provide some results that justify them keeping their jobs. Sadly.

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