Google did not honor those requests, as the pages remain among the first search results for those movies.
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The message obsentibly asked Google to nix hundreds of little-known sites that, according to Warner Brothers, allow people to pirate the company’s hit films.
Screenshots from the notices clearly show Warner Bros. official film sites among the reported wrong URLs that host pirated content.
Warner Bros. employed the firm Vobile to detect illegal content online and file takedown requests against the sites that host it. Vobile claims to be a specialist on this process and has even developed their method throughout the years reportedly working with other major studios.
Warner Bros. has always been among Hollywood’s most ferocious anti-piracy advocates, but it seems the studio has shot itself in the foot during its latest pursuit of justice.
This isn’t the only time Warner Bros. has made a similar error. The movies named in the takedown notice include The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, The Matrix and Inception. Aside from that, the requests also targeted things like Sky Cinema and IMDb.
“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.
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Luckily for the Hollywood studio, Google is there to save the day. Among those were links to Warner Bros.’ own website, Amazon, IMDB and a streaming service from Sky where customers can legally watch Warner Bros. movies.
