Sulake DMCA complaint to Google

[Bow]

Google DMCA Form: Infringement Notification for Web Search

Contact Information
Name: [redacted]
Company Name: Sulake Corporation Ltd
Copyright holder: Sulake Corporation Ltd
Country/Region: FI

YOUR COPYRIGHTED WORK

Copyright claim #0:
Habbo Hotel is one the world’s largest social games and communities for teens. Users join by creating a fully customized online character called a Habbo. From there, they can explore wide variety of spaces and millions of rooms created by other users in the community, play a variety of games, connect with friends, decorate their own rooms, and have fun through creativity and self expression.

Sulake Corporation Ltd and its affiliates (hereinafter together “Sulake” or “we”) together with their licensors own all rights, title and interest in and to the website habbo.com and its local versions for example habbo.fi (hereinafter referred to as the “Habbo Sites”) and in and to all of its contents which content includes without limitation images, animations, computer programs as well as “Sulake” and “Habbo” trademarks and various other names, marks and logos used at the Habbo Site (hereinafter referred to as the “Sulake Content”).

Sulake Content is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret and other applicable laws as well as international treaties relating to the same. Sulake’s registrations include, but are not limited to, registration of the word HABBO as a trademark of Sulake Corporation Oy in the European Union, the USA, Japan, the People's Republic of China and various other jurisdictions.

Original work URL(s):
http://www.habbo.com
http://www.habbo.fi
http://www.habbo.se
http://www.habbo.no
http://www.habbo.dk
http://www.habbo.de
http://www.habbo.com.br
Habbo Hotel -
http://www.habbo.nl
http://www.habbo.es
http://www.habbo.it

Allegedly infringing URLs:
0. HabRay Hotel
1. HabRockz: Login!
2. Vote | RetrosList (Habbo Retros)
3. Vote | RetrosList (Habbo Retros)
4. Shock: Revolutionizing the retro community.
5. NGH - Login
6. Paradise: Meet new friends, join the fun, get noticed!
7. Fabbo RP
8. Hab-Wave - Client
9. Paradise: Meet new friends, join the fun, get noticed!
10. Boom Hotel - Login
11. Vote | RetrosList (Habbo Retros)
12. Habboon: Where the fun begins!
13. http://fresh-hotel.org/

SWORN STATEMENTS

I have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted materials described above as allegedly infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
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The information in this notification is accurate, and I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
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SIGNATURE
Signed on this date of:
10/14/2013

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=1239647

[MentaL]

[Gaby]

This made me LMAO so hard.

[The General]

Doubt Google will listen. And the list is so short. Think they will send more DMCA claims to them if they follow this one.

[Ron]

This made me LMAO so hard.

Care to explain why its so funny? Companies do this all the time to remove piracy listings. Search for any popular movie with "download" at the end and you'll see " X has been removed due to a DMCA violation" all over the results.

Doubt Google will listen. And the list is so short. Think they will send more DMCA claims to them if they follow this one.

Google actually has it in their usage policy to act on these complaints. Might want to go read a bit.

[Bow]

Doubt Google will listen. And the list is so short. Think they will send more DMCA claims to them if they follow this one.

Looks like a top 10 list off RetrosList.

[The General]

Google actually has it in their usage policy to act on these complaints. Might want to go read a bit.

Allright. I wonder how fast the search engine gets these results filtered as you can still find them.

[Gaby]

Care to explain why its so funny? Companies do this all the time to remove piracy listings. Search for any popular movie with "download" at the end and you'll see " X has been removed due to a DMCA violation" all over the results.

It made me laugh, because Sulake's(/Elisa's?) going harder and harder with taking down hotels. I personally think that they just haven't found a person to contact regarding these hotels and that's why they want to remove them from Google. It won't amaze me if they're going to take down Youtube videos about retros too.

[vLife]

They are going to be taken down. Believe that, and Google more than likely will work better toward combating them appearing in the search index.

[Shorty]

Considering Google have been trying hard to comply more and more with DMCA reports, these could most likely be removed from their search. Sulake have actually acted a little smart, considering a lot of people use Google to try and find private servers in the first place.

[Bow]

This is how Sledmore explained it to me..

[1:14:58 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: Since the cache is for TheHabbos, all of them will fall under TheHabbos
[1:15:03 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: All of them sites will need a new domain
[1:15:13 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: Because the links that have been put on Google via their crawler
[1:15:17 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: will sow up as DMCA.
[1:15:22 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: And the adverts could be at risk.
[1:15:44 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: Also, notice the listing below goes in a descending order of popularity of votes on TheHabbos
[1:15:46 AM] Tyler - XZNetworks: SO it wont severly affect us? We'll just switch domains and stop using TheHabbos?
[1:16:04 AM] [>:)] Sledmore: It'll probably suspend Google services used.

I'd imagine just changing domains and whatnot will fix this. Sulake will just have to keep remaking a list of hotels the more times you change your domain.

[Matthew]

It made me laugh, because Sulake's(/Elisa's?) going harder and harder with taking down hotels. I personally think that they just haven't found a person to contact regarding these hotels and that's why they want to remove them from Google. It won't amaze me if they're going to take down Youtube videos about retros too.

Well yeah. They (might) not be able to obtain the details of the hotel owners in question right now, as they may have pending court orders or warrants to obtain the information from some one like the domain registrars or PayPal. So they'll choke the hotels out of providing vital resources to get visitors to hotels. They're already going after hotel owners Facebook pages (https://www.facebook.com/FreshLimited). So why wouldn't they want the sites removed from Google ?

I'd imagine just changing domains and whatnot will fix this. Sulake will just have to keep remaking a list of hotels the more times you change your domain.

Seems like a whole lot of time, money and effort wasted. A good way to loose and piss off your userbase as well. Habbo users are at the bottom ring of intelligence when it comes to an internet user. They won't follow or keep track of your forever changing domains.

If it is seriously coming to this why not just give up and do something productive. By the time you've fucked around with domains, losing your user base and wasting money you could have made or done something fully legal and profitable. You can't say it's for the money because retro profits is just pocket money compared to a real job.

[Quackster]

If it is seriously coming to this why not just give up and do something productive. By the time you've fucked around with domains, losing your user base and wasting money you could have made or done something fully legal and profitable. You can't say it's for the money because retro profits is just pocket money compared to a real job.

You sir, are a prophet.

[TheOleg]

If it is seriously coming to this why not just give up and do something productive. By the time you've fucked around with domains, losing your user base and wasting money you could have made or done something fully legal and profitable. You can't say it's for the money because retro profits is just pocket money compared to a real job.

habbo.i2p! habbo.onion!
Just kidding.

[Unphased]

Sulake are killing us off here. At some point, the retro community will die, whether you're changing domain or not. They'll find an easier way to get rid of us. We're being killed off one by one and it's bad enough that a few of the mainstream hotels have already been pushed off the web.

[Bow]

'Habboon.com' no longer shows on Google search, only 'beta.habboon.com' as this as been accepted. Same for 'playfatal.com.' Looks like they're working their way up from the bottom of that list to the top.