Universal orders google to take down 127.0.0.1

[Exterminator]

Universal Pictures in France has been seeding a pirated copy of its latest blockbuster Jurassic World from its own servers.

The Chris Pratt-featuring reinvention of Steve Spielberg’s 1993 action spectacular that revolutionised visual effects, has been riding high in the box office top 10, but has also seen high levels of piracy.

Universal filed a takedown notice with Google on 15 July under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), as spotted by the Register, demanding that the search engine block links to several sites allegedly hosting or linking to pirated copies of Jurassic World.

Among the block requests was a link to “http://127.0.0.1:4001/#/fr/”. The Internet Protocol address “127.0.0.1” is typically reserved to describe the “localhost” or machine on which a program or user is operating. This indicates the pirated copy of the movie was being hosted within Universal’s own computer network.

Movie studios and publishers typically use automated programs that search for unlicensed copyrighted works, in this case a movie. The program likely found a file being linked to from outside Universal’s network on its own computers, meaning that Universal was seeding pirated copies of its own movie.

Good job!

Ref:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/23/universal-pirated-copy-jurassic-world-seeded-from-its-own-servers
https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10969223#

[TiMoN]

Does that affect anyone?

[Rusty]

lol.

[Fuzzy]

 

[Marcel]

The program likely found a file being linked to from outside Universal’s network on its own computers, meaning that Universal was seeding pirated copies of its own movie.

Not necessarily. It might have been a linked reference to a pirated copy for all we know.

Does however prove how careless the movie studios are.

[Axison]

Lol

[Exterminator]

Not necessarily. It might have been a linked reference to a pirated copy for all we know.

Does however prove how careless the movie studios are.

There is automated software which is taking a guess as to which website lives and which 'dies' (Anything that gets pulled off of all major search engines takes a major blow). The real question is, how much damage have these retards already done?

[RizzE.]

Meh, long live piracy!

[Luke]

Saw "127.0.0.1" and thought "now thats the dumbest thing ive seen all day"

Trust me ive looked in the mirror about 4-5 times today.