Potential consumers often find the products they are looking for through search engines and of course, most business owners have heard of search engine optimization. There’s often huge emphasis on how to rank a business’s site higher on top keywords, but businesses often overlook how piracy listings in the search engines can counter act all…
In an article published by the Huffington Post yesterday afternoon, musician John Mellencamp chips in his two cents about online music piracy, the DMCA and what he sees as a manifest need for a rewrite of copyright law, and the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA, in particular. Central to Mellencamp’s argument is a claim…
In a post on Google’s InsideSearch blog yesterday, Senior Vice President of Engineering Amit Singhal made an announcement that should come as music to the ears of rights-holders everywhere: Google is going to start penalizing sites that receive a high number of DMCA take-down notices by ranking such sites lower in Google’s search results. Here’s…
