Google sues two men who sent out fake copyright takedowns

Originally published at: Google sues two men who sent out fake copyright takedowns | Boing Boing

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I was all “Sony Entertainment Online?” Wait… Nope

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Reminds me of seeing a video of 4’33" on Youtube with the audio disabled due to a claim by WMG.

Which was so amusingly plausible it took until today for me to learn that was a stunt and there was another audio track that had been muted.

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Oh my gods, as if the online t-shirt business wasn’t filled with enough fraud as it was… I’m guessing they were also wholesale stealing other people’s designs, then adding insult to injury by then making fake DMCA notices to take down the originals.

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