SuperPubQ: I have questions.
I do a *lot* of takedowns, and there is some conflicting information in your description vs. the appsumo video:
1. Am I to understand that the AppSumo deal is **just** for Google and other search engine deindexing? So--if you find the stolen property on, say, a wordpress site or libgen or a blogspot site, no DMCA will be sent to the host? Never? If that's the case then AppSumo should not call this a piracy removal tool. The narrator says "automatically banishes web pages." That is vague language. Why would you do that? It's misleading.
2. Let's also talk about "automatically." Is there a way to use this tool whereby the user can decide to approve or skip over pages the bots have found? Because "automatically" is just a horrible idea. If someone *reviews* my book using some of my descriptive language from the flap copy, and Harvel decides that is infringing and submits a DMCA... that's a PR disaster, friends. I don't want a bot deciding who to call out.
AndrejM_Harvel
May 14, 2024A: 1. Have to disagree here. We have no intention in misleading clients, because we don't have any benefit from having a client not being able to use the platform as intended. It does banishes web pages from the Google Index, which is explained and really emphasized throughout the deal page too.
2. Several clients said they would want to have control over what links get a DMCA notice, and what links don't. We think that loses the original purpose of this tool, which is helping the creator spend less time on the piracy fight, and more time creating content.
This is why we have various set of filters, a database of known infringement sites, as well as a human check for all those links that cannot be 100% confirmed to be infringement. We are very cautious not to submit a DMCA for a false positive.
In the worst case scenario that we do, we can redact the complaint, by simply reaching out to Google. It is reversed, without any consequences, within 24 hours.