Warner Brothers or just Warner Bros, has been one of Hollywood's titan that is also known to be one of the most ferocious anti-piracy advocates. In a recent DMCA notice to Google, the movie studio has mistakenly flagged its own website for pirated contents.
What it did was asking Google to remove entries from showing up in its search engine results pages (SERP).
But in its latest attempt to pursuit justice, Warner Bros that referred its own Oscar-winning movie The Dark Knight for complaints, has included its own studio's website among others on the list.
The self-censorship was first spotted by news blog Torrent Freak, which said Vobile had made some "glaring errors". Vobile which works on behalf of Warner Bros, is a company that files hundreds of thousands of takedown requests to Google every month.
"Warner is inadvertently trying to make it harder for the public to find links to legitimate content, which runs counter to its intentions," said Ernesto van der Sar, from Torrent Freak.
Google acknowledged this mistake; the search giant will continue to index those websites and their pages despite the studio's requests to take them down.
Previously, Warner Bros also mistakenly reported the sci-fi action classic The Matrix and the romance drama The Lucky One to Google.
What's more, legitimate and popular web pages were also included by Warner Bros.. Those pages include several IMDb entries, links from Amazon where users can by a purchase copy, and some from Sky Cinema.
The internet is a very huge place. With more users using it, we can expect many things to be added to it. But with the many things the internet has to give, finding specific things could be tricky, and this is where search engines like as Google, took their role.
Google crawls and indexes the web, and with its prominent existence, the search engine has been the choice for many people when they're attempting to look for something on the web.
With the many things the internet has to give, not everything is legal or can be distributed for free. With many companies claiming their rights of ownership for their own products, Google has been allowing people to request takedowns legally.
However, in Warner Bros.' case, Vobile used automated systems to create the said list, and this is considered to be potentially flawed. Searching for specific things on the web, even with Google and several other tools, can still be difficult. For that matter, automation is needed to aid the task. But Vobile apparently made an obvious mistake.