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Glossary of terms

Campaign: A campaign is where all the details relating to one project can be found. This is where you can view illegal links MUSO has found and issue takedowns for them.

Crawling for Links: The process of searching the internet to identify and extract infringing links into your campaign.

Cyberlocker: A cyberlocker is a third-party online service that provides file-storing and file-sharing services for various types of media files and data.

DMCA: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Many infringing sites have accepted this as a standard takedown procedure.

File Tab: This is where we will list all of the live cyberlocker, torrent, streaming and blog links we’ve found that are offering your content illegally.

Google Tab: This is where we add links that we have found in Google search results. Sending takedowns for links in this tab will remove them from Google search listings.

Media Type: This is the general category of the content you want to protect. You can choose from Music, Film, Software or Publishing.

Non Compliant Site: Any site which hosts/provides illegal content but does not remove files or respond to takedown notices.

Non Contactable Site: The takedown cannot be issued because no valid or usable contact information is available. This includes sites that do not provide contact details, or where available contact methods are unreliable or unsuitable for processing removal requests.

Products:A product is the type of campaign you’re running, for example a Book, an Album or a Film, depending on your Media Type.

Removal: A removal is what happens when MUSO issues a DMCA Takedown Notice to the website or host of infringing content and that content is subsequently eliminated from the site. The content can be a piracy file, a Google search result or a spoof site (see definition below).

Source Page: This is the specific page(s) where we have found the files that appear in your campaign.

Spoof Site: A "fake" site which offers content to consumers, usually requiring a subscription, membership or survey, but which does not actually have downloadable content available on the site.

Torrent: A torrent is a file type used by BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. It allows users to share and download files using specific programmes such as BitTorrent and UTorrent.