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Business IS politics in the US, eh?<br>
<h1 class="title-news"> <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/chilling-effects-website_n_3044464.html?utm_hp_ref=business">Chilling
Effects, The Website Powerful Companies Are Trying To Hide From
You, Revealed </a></h1>
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<p> <b>Quartz</b> | By Leo Mirani <span style="display:
block;" class="posted-and-updated"> Posted: <span
itemprop="datePublished">04/09/2013 10:13 am EDT</span> | Updated:
<span itemprop="dateModified">04/09/2013 10:13 am EDT</span> </span>
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<p><strong>This story <a
href="http://qz.com/72073/this-article-contains-a-link-that-some-powerful-companies-dont-want-you-to-see/"
target="_hplink">originally appeared</a> on <a
href="http://qz.com/" target="_hplink">Quartz</a>. </strong></p>
<p>First came the takedown notice. Then came the takedown notice for
the takedown notice.</p>
<p>Not happy with making search engines such as Google stop showing
links to websites that carry pirated content, several companies
including Microsoft, Warner Bros, Sony Music, NBC and Fox have
also been trying to scrub the evidence that they have done so.</p>
<p>Their target is <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/"
target="_hplink">Chilling Effects</a>, a website created as a
joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several
law schools. It was formed in 2001 as a reaction to America’s
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which clamped down on online
piracy while giving an escape clause to websites that link to
pirated material unwittingly. Under <a
href="http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/faq.cgi"
target="_hplink">section 512 of the DMCA</a>, websites served
with a “takedown notice” can avoid prosecution if they, well, take
down links to any infringing material.</p>
<p>Google regularly (but not always) complies with notices and
removes websites from its search index. It then publishes data
about the notices it receives in its regularly updated <a
href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/"
target="_hplink">transparency report</a>. It also <a
href="http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/faq/#chilling_effects"
target="_hplink">passes on the notices</a> to Chilling Effects.
Request-information pages in the online report generally link
directly to the notice at Chilling Effects.</p>
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