With the growth of high-speed Internet, the long-running issue of movie piracy has run rampant with websites that disseminate new films to global audiences. Movie studios, of course, often file complaints against sites for copyright infringement, and Universal recently did just that -- against itself, according to Time.

Movie copyrights online are covered under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and DCMA "takedown notices" are used to police copyright infringement online. On July 15, Universal filed one such DCMA complaint to Google.

In it, Universal cited piracy of "Jurassic World" on several sites and asked for the websites in question to be compelled to take the content offline. According to the DCMA database site Chilling Effects, one domain in the infringement complaint was listed as https://127.0.0.1:4000/#fr/.

The irony of the situation, for those who aren't familiar with the language of URLs: That "127" number denotes a "Local Host" when using a "loopback" interface to bypass the network. For example, if you ran a website on your own computer, you could use a "localhost" url on your web browser to view the site directly, without routing through the Internet. In plain English, "localhost" literally means my computer. In the case of the Universal address, it means at least "our network" in France.

It seems as though Universal had filed a complaint against itself for pirating "Jurassic World."

Of course, Universal's self-listing may be the result of a bot, an employee, or just an error in obtaining the URL, but it certainly is an embarrassment for the company -- especially for techies who could immediatly spot what the listing meant. (Other sites, not owned by Universal, were listed in the complaint as well.)

And it's not the first mistake of its kind. NBC has filed a similarly self-directed complaint. One might guess the two sibling companies may have some issues to address, if not with internal piracy, then at least employee training.