Google Faces Request to Remove Over 10 Billion 'Pirate' Links! 🚫

Summary:

  1. Massive Takedown Request
    Rightsholders have requested Google to remove more than 10 billion URLs identified as ‘copyright infringing’ from its search results.

  2. Historical Context
    The request reflects significant growth in DMCA takedown notices over time, which started at a few million annually and surged to billions by 2016.

  3. Decline in Takedown Requests
    Following a peak, the volume of takedown requests began to decline around 2017, aided by Google’s anti-piracy algorithms that reduced the visibility of infringing content.

  4. Recent Surge
    Despite previous declines, Google has recently seen a record number of DMCA notices, processing around 2.5 billion requests per year, averaging over 50 million per week.

  5. Concentration of Reports
    The overwhelming majority of takedown requests come from a small group of rightsholders, with the top ten accounting for 40% of all reported links, indicating concentrated efforts in combating piracy.

Read more at: TorrentFreak

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