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Re:The mother of all Android malware has arrived by TillE on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @08:42AM (#2279487)
> Apparently, Google has an unofficial policy of ignoring copyright and trademark complaints

I have no personal experience with this, but Google makes it very clear that a DMCA notice is the appropriate action in this situation:

http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=lr...

I've read a bunch of sob stories lately from iOS and Android app developers, and they never say they've sent a DMCA takedown notice that's gone unanswered. Under US law, this is the way to respond to copyright violations. Sending a generic complaint means very little.

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Re:The mother of all Android malware has arrived by veeti on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @08:53AM (#2279518)
He said in his comment that he sent a DMCA notice.
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Re:The mother of all Android malware has arrived by Natsu on Thursday March 03, 2011 @02:55AM (#2283244)
Just to be clear, the guy on Reddit also said that Google responded to the DMCA notice, which counters the claim the GP was responding to, specifically the the claim that Google ignores copyright complaints.

That said, it's true that they won't respond to anything except a valid DMCA notice. Anyone who sends anything else is provided with instructions on how to file a valid DMCA notice last I knew.

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