Ukraine (TV channel)

Ukraine

Country	Ukraine
Broadcast area	Ukraine
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV screen)
Ownership
Owner	Ukraina Media Group (owns 99.93% of shares)[1]
Sister channels	Football TV Channel
History
Launched	13 March 1993; 28 years ago (1993-03-13)
Links
Website	kanalukraina.tv
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	MX-1 (2)
Satellite
Astra A4	11766 H - 27500 - 3/4

Ukraine (officially TRK Ukraina; Україна) is a channel from Ukraine which began broadcasting as a regional, Donetsk TV channel on March 13, 1993. The channel has a national status since 2004. The channel is part of Media Group Ukraine, which is part of SCM. The channel consists of TV shows, films and TV series, both domestic and foreign.

Anti-Piracy and false takedown notice incident[]

Google has been cooperating with requests to hide pirated material from its search engine results. Unfortunately some legal firms, abuse this option offered by Google and intentionally report anything they suspect “just in case” it happens to be an infringing material. Recently, Vindex Law firm, a partner of TRK managed to send a takedown request to Google asking them to take down content that is actually stored on their own server.  According to the takedown notice, all reported links “illegally provide external links with which users can access and/or download unauthorized copyrighted contents of Football.” That would then include the file on Vindex’s computer.

Since the takedown request mentioned the address 127.0.0.1 which refers to their own host computer, Google is technically asked to remove a file from its servers that doesn’t exist. Needless to say, Google hasn’t taken any action in response and Vindex has not yet commented on this unprofessional action.

See also[]

• Television in Ukraine

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Ukrainian, Russian, and English)
• Anti-Piracy Firm Asks Google to Block 127.0.0.1