How a shady anti-piracy company got Google to take down posts containing the word ‘did’

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How a shady anti-piracy company got Google to take down posts containing the word 'did'

A copyright watchdog service recently convinced Google to hide Search listings for websites containing the word "did," as in the simple past tense of the word "do," by claiming they infringed upon the copyrights of their client: the successful reality TV show "Dance India Dance."

That's right, a shady company working on behalf of a major TV show tried to claim that the word "did" was protected by copyright.

TorrentFreak first reported on the issue after Sinclair Target, the creator and owner of a computer history blog called TwoBitHistory, tweeted about it last week.

What the hell!!??????????????????????

Google has stopped listing arguably my most successful post because it apparently infringes on a reality show called "Dance India Dance"?!

Has anyone dealt with this before? pic.twitter.com/3WFogL4WRP

- TwoBitHistory (@TwoBitHistory) February 12, 2020

The gist of Target's issue is that they wrote a popular blog post titled "What did Ava Lovelace's Program Ac



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