Ukraine (TV channel)

Ukraina (Ukrainian: Україна; officially TRC Ukraina, Ukrainian: ТРК «Україна») is a national Ukrainian-language TV channel, owned by Ukraina Media Group. It began broadcasting as a regional, Donetsk TV channel on March 13, 1993, with getting a national status in 2004. The channel consists of TV shows, films and TV series, both domestic and foreign.

Google has been cooperating with requests to hide pirated material from its search engine results. Unfortunately some legal firms, abuse this option offered by Google and intentionally report anything they suspect “just in case” it happens to be an infringing material. Recently, Vindex Law firm, a partner of TRK managed to send a takedown request to Google asking them to take down content that is actually stored on their own server. According to the takedown notice, all reported links “illegally provide external links with which users can access and/or download unauthorized copyrighted contents of Football.” That would then include the file on Vindex’s computer.

Since the takedown request mentioned the address 127.0.0.1 which refers to their own host computer, Google is technically asked to remove a file from its servers that doesn’t exist. Needless to say, Google hasn’t taken any action in response and Vindex has not yet commented on this unprofessional action.