(1) In general.-A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the storage at the direction of a user of material that resides on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider, if the service provider- (A) (i) does not have actual knowledge that the material or an activity using the material on the system or network is infringing (ii) in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent or (iii) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material Īlso-service providers are supposed to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers: Aside from providing a safe haven for pirated content, Google also blatantly defies the “safe harbor” a DMCA requirement that infringing material be “expeditiously” removed….In reality, it can take weeks for reported links to be removed from Google Drive.īelow is the requisite passages from the DMCA : I’ve written about Google Drive several times over recent years, highlighting its ongoing role in giving online pirates convenient (and free) storage to make it easy for them to “share” pirated movies. When it comes to Google Drive and piracy, the story remains the same, day after day, year after year. However, unlike Groundhog Day, there are no minor changes in the timeline that lead to a different outcome.

Writing about online piracy and Google is a bit like living in the movie Groundhog Day.

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