[The Next Web] Warner Bros goes after Google and Reddit in piracy battle


Keeping up with torrent sites can be a game of whack-a-mole, as we learned with KickassTorrents and its subsequent mirror sites. Now it seems as though Hollywood is going after search and discovery via Google and Reddit. In a letter to Google, Warner Bros. studios asked the search company to remove a page directing users to a subreddit named BestOfStreamingVideo. The DMCA notice claims the subreddit was infringing on Warner Bros. rights for the 2015 movie Interstellar because a link to a pirated copy appeared in a thread. It’s not clear if the same notice was sent to Reddit, but…

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