Four years after the closure of Megaupload, right holders continue to demand removal of content.

More than four years have passed since the Megaupload file hosting servers were sealed at the request of the US authorities , but the right holders continue to struggle with the phantom. Some of them still send requests to Google to delete links that supposedly lead to pirated files on Megaupload hosting.

For example, the Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures recently sent a request to remove from the search engine a link to the movie “The game for a slide”, filmed in 2015.

Naturally, Google cannot fulfill such a request, because the film did not even exist when Megaupload was online. But IP-Echelon, an intellectual property protection company representing the interests of Paramount Pictures, believes otherwise.



It is curious that in the screenshot with a list of links to delete there is also a link to the Hotfile - another file hosting service, which has long ceased to exist.

Another removal request was sent to Google by MarkMonitor on behalf of its client, HBO. They are protesting the posting on Megaupload of a nude scene from the Kill Boredom series with Marisa Vitali. Well, this video at least existed five years ago, but since the moment Megaupload was closed, the specified URL is not active and is not in the Google index.

It remains only to guess where the bots of companies for the protection of intellectual property take these URLs.

Mistakes are made not only by representatives of Hollywood studios. For example, the anti-piracy company Link-Busters requiresremove the mythical link to the book Principles and Practice of Surgery and Oncology of the Head and Neck from her client, Taylor & Francis.

Four years after the closure of Megaupload, the right holders continue to fight it. In fact, they now send even more requests to delete content than when the Megaupload was active. This is all the more strange that Google no longer indexes any URLs from the Megaupload site.

Of course, such meaningless requests do no harm. Nevertheless, there are fears that claims about quite legitimate sites on which there is no pirated content may also appear by mistake.