A book review blog was removed from the internet over a false DMCA notice

Fantasy Book Critic, a book review blog published with Google Blogger, has been removed from the internet on the strength of what appear to be baseless DMCA takedown requests sent to Google on behalf of publishing giants Penguin Random House and HarperCollins.

Doing their "dirty work" was a service that describes itself as an anti-piracy service which "quickly detects infringing content across the web, subsequently disrupting the digital piracy ecosystem."

Related: DMCA requests continue to attempt to bring down legitimate websites

But critics say that the business is actually based on churning out bogus, automated DMCA notices (hence, perhaps, the ability to so quickly "detect" allegedly infringing content.)

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