If there were any doubts over the legitimacy of the leaked build of Windows 11 doing the rounds in dubious corners of the internet, Microsoft has seem

Microsoft targets Windows 11 leak with DMCA takedown

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2021-06-21 11:00:08

If there were any doubts over the legitimacy of the leaked build of Windows 11 doing the rounds in dubious corners of the internet, Microsoft has seemingly eliminated them.

As spotted by Fossbytes, the company has issued a DMCA copyright complaint to Google targeting Indian site Beebom, which Microsoft claims was distributing the unreleased software. The complaint has been indexed by the Lumen project, which bills itself as an “independent research project studying cease and desist letters concerning online content”.

The complaint comes from Microsoft Japan and simply reads “Beebom.com’s article is distributing Windows 11 ISO (copyrighted to Microsoft). Please remove their article from the search.” If that wasn’t clear enough for you, the last line really hammers the point home: “It is a leaked copy of the unreleased Windows 11.”

The build of Windows 11 doing the rounds was built more on cosmetic changes than the kind of dramatic shifts that would traditionally signal the launch of a whole new operating system, and it could potentially have been dismissed as a hoax, or something legitimate but outdated. But this DMCA takedown request from Microsoft really does seem to suggest that this is the new OS that Microsoft is set to debut on Wednesday.