Twitter Removed Links to News Stories That Mentioned Leaked TV Shows

Twitter Removed Links to News Stories That Mentioned Leaked TV Shows

5 years ago
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5wxak/twitter-removed-links-to-news-stories-that-mentioned-leaked-tv-shows

Premium cable channel Starz used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to force Twitter to censor tweets about a leaked episode of its show American Gods. The tweets didn’t directly link to the leaked episode online, nor give information on how to pirate it, but Starz still managed to temporarily remove the tweets.

The source of Starz’s ire is a TorrentFreak article from April 8 describing the massive leak of unaired episodes of several television shows, including American Gods, which airs on Starz. According to TorrentFreak and the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), Starz employed a third party to serve DMCA notices to Twitter to take down links shared about the leak.