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How does this work exactly? 1) A blogger publishes an article warning about scammer/fraudster/terrorist known as person Person X. They publish on January 1 20
by snake_plissken 3y ago
How does this work exactly?
1) A blogger publishes an article warning about scammer/fraudster/terrorist known as person Person X. They publish on January 1 2024.
2) Person X wants to get this info out of the Google results.
3) Person X goes to one one of these reputation management companies. They copy verbatim the article and post it to Tumblr. Tumblr has a feature to back-date posts so they back-date their post to December 1 2023. This makes it appear like the content appeared before the blogger published their article.
4) The reputation management company then sends a DCMA takedown notice to Google with the Tumblr post as evidence that the blogger is infringing on their content. Google does their DCMA thing and de-indexes the blog post.
The blog poster's remedy is to appeal the takedown at which point Google would then re-list their post...at which point this process starts over again?
Stuff like this is incredibly frustrating. It's so simple yet effective because of how the DCMA compliance process is implemented.