Google’s John Mueller is once again telling webmasters that they do not need to respond or lose sleep over ransom link spam attempts. These are when you get an email from someone saying if you don’t do X, i.e. pay us, we will spam your site with bad links,...
Man allegedly tried to extort payments up to $300 with bogus takedown threats. A Nebraska man has agreed to pay $25,000 for abusing YouTube’s takedown system under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, YouTube said in an emailed statement Tuesday. The man,...