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https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/localhost

by perihelions • 5 years ago

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perihelions3• 5 years ago

Inspired by today's [0], this is a list of legal threats delivered to Google over the domain "localhost".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28106479 ("Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1")

codezero2• 5 years ago

Sorry for being off topic but what made you pick the name perihelions? I ask as someone who did some work in the field of solar physics and I don’t see a lot of opportunity to use the word perihelion :)

perihelions3• 5 years ago

It originated from Kerbal Space Program!

samename• 5 years ago

This domain had 400 URLs over 24 individual requests requested for delisting from our Search results. 22.5% were removed

How did they even have these results?

dmitryminkovsky• 5 years ago

What does it even mean?

banana_giraffe3• 5 years ago

I do wonder

https://www.lumendatabase.org/notices/1315500

This looks to be the DMCA request for those 90 links. No doubt it was part of a dragnet, given they're listings of 3gp, aac, flv, mp3, mp4, and webm files, it's probably just some links found in some sort of scam page.

perihelions3• 5 years ago

Good eye! Looks like that corresponds to this report on Google's page:

https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/request/6590...

90 entries "removed" -- all of them "localhost"

Taniwha2• 5 years ago

One is reminded of the whole $cientology vs the internet shambles, at one point someone was deposed by their lawyers trying to find out who was running that "localhost" server because it had all their files on it ..... these are the same people who were trying to find out the identity of Major Domo, because he seemed to be a big wig in the whole internet cabal who were trying to take $cientology down

TOMDM• 5 years ago

If anyone's curious, there's previous discussion about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891

twoknee2• 5 years ago

He really didn't handle the explanation of the joke properly...

spiritplumber• 5 years ago

unrelated but i love your kerbal space program stuff!

Taniwha2• 5 years ago

A different "taniwha" I'm afraid - I've been using this handle on-line since the mid 80s ....

bryanrasmussen• 5 years ago

In 1999 I went for a class at a company who was trying to sell an XML database, there was a problem in the class when it turned out that someone in Germany on their corporate network had named their computer 'localhost'.

judge2020• 5 years ago

Removed 90 (22.5%)

So 90 `localhost` results were actually in the index?

tyingq3• 5 years ago

I would guess it's some quirk, like a domain that originally had a real DNS A record, then switched it to point at 127.0.0.1 some time later. But the cached index pages remained for some time as well.

Edit: Apparently not. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28112231 The entire request is all 127.0.0.1 links.

zeronine• 5 years ago

Can the title be updated to be more descriptive?

viraptor2• 5 years ago

Some requests seem to be so garbage it makes me sad. For example https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/request/1195... has "localhost", "unknown", and "apple.com". I hope we get some laws which allow saying "your request has so many bad links, we're going to ignore all of it and future ones until quality improves".

tyingq3• 5 years ago

I agree that "localhost" and "unknown" aren't right, but "apple.com" could be correct. Those reports show only the domain and don't show the exact url. You have to drill down and eventually supply an email to get the exact urls.

viraptor2• 5 years ago

I agree in theory it could be correct. But there's a decent chance that if you submitted a batch of urls including invalid ones, your apple.com submission is bogus.

graderjs• 5 years ago

So like if the lords of stackoverflow did management consulting for the likes of Google's internal processes? Sounds like a fantastic idea

Your question is unclear please rephrase your question to satisfy my own unclear and opaque standards of clarity and resubmit with low probability of acceptance in 4 to 9 weeks welcome to googo have a lovely day...

eitland• 5 years ago

No, the two are wildly different:

- in stackexchanges case someone is killing even popular questions with valid, helpful questions and answers because of their subjective opinion

- in this case it is quite obvious that anyone who asks for localhost/127.0.0.1 to be taken down either has no idea what they are doing or haven't vetted the data.

thayne• 5 years ago

Or better make the reporter financially liable for making obviously incorrect takedown notices.

ajsnigrutin• 5 years ago

Or just do what youtube does.... three strikes.

If you, as a creator get three strikes (for doing something wrong), you lose your channel. Why not the same for copyright holders... three false accusations, and it's the end.

tyingq3• 5 years ago

Interesting to find some domains with LOTS of removal requests.

Like this one with 16 million requests: https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/domains/new-...

Looks like a place with torrent links for movies.

azinman2• 5 years ago

So does that mean a good way to find piracy sites is to find the delisted domains?

ben_bai• 5 years ago

Been looking at the reported domains. Yes, indeed.

z3t4• 5 years ago

It would not supprise me if Google index and cache sites on localhost, if you somehow manage to expose it to the internet...

pjerem• 5 years ago

No, you can’t expose anything on internet that is seen by Google (or anyone) as localhost.

Flocular• 5 years ago

Only way I could imagine this is if the text of the link had copyrighted information in it. But I have never seen Google link to spurious localhosts anyway (presumably they dont copy links into results but only show sites they were able to crawl).

joelhaasnoot• 5 years ago

It would be interesting to use Google as a search engine for your own computer, but I'm sure it's not that easy

darrenf• 5 years ago

IIRC you used to be able to do this, kind of, with the Google Search Appliance virtual edition: https://googlecode.blogspot.com/2008/11/announcing-google-se...

aasasd• 5 years ago

Not quite the same, but Google provided Spotlight-like software for Windows, and shown some local results when you were searching the big web. This was over ten years ago.

nasretdinov• 5 years ago

It's also a little known fact that in a lot of operating systems the whole 127.0.0.0/8 is mapped to the local machine. I was able to fool my pretty tech-savvy friend by telling him that my IP was 127.23.85.66 and he even asked why do I have a public FTP server (I didn't) so it definitely worked :).

tupac_speedrap• 5 years ago

It's bonkers how they used up so much IPv4 address space just for your local machine.

colejohnson66• 5 years ago

I’m the “old days”, /8s were handed out like they were nothing. It wasn’t expected that it would become so bad.

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