I wrote a whole article about Remove Your Media LLC in 2024, detailing their copyright abuse in MOST cases. And how many have been unable to fight back since they use third-party platforms, or are concerned about consequences?
That has been picked up by CBR and others.
There’s also a whole DOCUMENT detailing Eric Green (and Remove Your Media LLC) about their BS.
This time around, it’s more personal rather than “in general”.
How it started: Google’s “copyright” claim email
“To the owner of https://animemotivation.com/,
Google has been notified that your site allegedly infringes upon the copyrights of others and violates applicable copyright laws in your region.
It is Google’s policy to remove copyrighted content when the copyright holder or their authorised representative alleges that a use is infringing. Therefore, we are in the process of removing the reported content from Google search results for users globally.
The notice that we received, with any personally identifying information removed, may be found on the website of Lumen, a third-party aggregator of legal complaint notices, at https://lumendatabase.org/not
ices/46666589.”
When clicking the URL, it leads you to this.
And there it is.
The senders:
- Remove Your Media LLC.
- On behalf of Japan Creative Contents Alliance.
And when you scroll even further, you see a few things.
One being the AUDACITY to include anime motivation alongside actual pirate sites in the anime space (and others).
The list of sites in question, which Anime Motivation ends up side by side:
- masteranime.tv
- hianime.to
- animefreak.to
- animehub.ac
- 9animes.ru
- backupanime
- anitummy.com
- yugenanime.tv
- anime8.ru
- aniwatchtv.to
And as you can see from the screenshot, only ONE URL was targeted on Anime Motivation.
Bizarre since there are 100s upon 100s but only one was targeted for now.
The URL targeted with DMCA via Anime Motivation
The irony of the image used for the article because it describes my own confusion in seeing the copyright abuse email.
The content of the article, like many online content from various entertainment, anime, and gaming websites, is simply images that help describe the written text. Put another way, “fair use”, but even that is a bit much.
By the logic of the DMCA claim, no website that talks about third-party IP’s should exist.
Of course, I wasn’t having any of it, and so, as many haven’t learned during the time Anime Motivation has been online, I had to fight back and lay the smackdown on these clowns.
Anime Motivation is innocent after all. Remove Your Media LLC can’t say the same.
Google’s response to my counterstrike
T”hanks for reaching out to us!
We receive a high volume of such requests daily, and your message is currently in our review queue. We will address it as promptly as our workload permits.
Please understand that we are only able to respond if your request appears to be a valid and actionable legal complaint. If so, we may reach out to you with questions or requests for additional information. For more information on Google’s Terms of Service, please visit http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS.”
These emails are, of course, automated.
We have received your counter notice. We’ll forward it to the user who requested removal of your content. If we don’t receive proof that they have filed a legal action against you within 10 business days, we’ll reinstate the material in question. A legal action may be a lawsuit against you or a claim with a qualified alternative dispute resolution provider that names the URL(s) at issue and seeks a court order to restrain your alleged infringement.
For more information, please refer to our Copyright Help Center at https://support.google.com/legal/answer/4558836.”
After a good 2 weeks or 10 days, just like they said in the next email, the content was lifted and back online on Google’s search engine.
Remove Your Media LLC and “Japan Creative Content Alliance” NEVER responded
The fact that they never responded or counterstriked, or showed proof that material was being infringed, speaks for itself.
They had a good 10 days to counter my own counter to their first DMCA, but they never bothered because their DMCA strike was a fraudulent attempt, that’s why.
None of it is or was based on a legal framework, the irony being that they sent a DMCA as if you’re illegally infringing on their copyright.
This is why owning your own website is so powerful, because there are too many frauds (or fraudulent–like attempts) that aren’t even legal, making it too ironic and morally corrupt.
Conclusion: Never back down when you’re innocent
Recommended: Anime Copyright Law
