Anti-piracy company demanded that Google remove links to operating systems, databases, messengers and browsers

The German company Total Wipes Anti Piracy , which controls copyright on the Internet, has sent many requests for content removal to Google. This would not be surprising, but among the links that “anti-pirates” considered to be infringing copyright, there was such an incredible list of companies that TorrentFreak journalists with a light heart called these requests “the most idiotic”.

A label Aborigeno Music released a musical album "In To The Wild - Vol.7". Obviously, the piece of music turned out to be popular on the Internet, so the label management was forced to ask for assistance in tracking illegal references to the album to Total Wipes. In the latter, without thinking twice, they made a list of 95 links that in one way or another contribute to the violation of copyright, and turned to them at Google. Among the companies "pirates" were such:

ICQ, RedHat, SQLite, Vuze, LinuxMint, WineHQ, Foxit, Caliber, Kodi / XBMC, Skype, Java, OpenOffice, Gimp, Ubuntu, Python, TeamViewer, MySQL, VLC, Joomla, Z-Zip, RaspberryPI, Unity3D, Apache, MalwareBytes, Pidgin, LibreOffice, VMWare, uTorrent, WinSCP, WhatsApp, Evernote, AMD, AVG, Origin, TorProject, PHPMyAdmin, Nginx, FFmpeg, phpbb, Plex, GNU, WireShark, Dropbox and Opera.

In Google, of course, rejected requests. However, the initiative of the German "anti-pirates" inspires fears that they will not stop at this. In 2012, they already turned to Google about one of the articles on TorrentFreak, which described ways to anonymously download content. In another application for content removal, articles describing how to avoid copyright controls were considered a threat to the Truth or Dare music album.