WHAT’S HIDING BEHIND THE FAKE DMCA COMPLAINTS? In the last months, one of Qurium’s research questions has been to understand how the domains registered by Eliminalia have been used to remove content from Google search results. Our first quick finding was to see that hundreds of their domains were copying articles from legitimate news media in an automatic fashion, skipping the content that their clients found uncomfortable. Two of Qurium’s hosted websites were used by the clones, that pulled new stories from the media sites several times per hour. By February 2021, Qurium knew that Eliminalia was copying and back-dating articles to file DMCA complains since at least 2017 but it was unclear if the “clones” had been used for the same purpose.