shamu726 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 It's likely you've never heard of mp3toys.xyz since the site has very little traffic. However, thanks to a bungling anti-piracy outfit, the site is now the second most complained about 'pirate' site on the Internet, with Google receiving more than 49 million notices in just over six months. As reported in these pages on many occasions, Google’s Transparency Report is a goldmine for anyone prepared to invest time trawling its archives. The report is a complete record of every DMCA notice Google receives for its ‘search’ function and currently lists more than two billion URL takedowns spread over a million websites. Of course, most of those websites will remain faceless since there’s far too many to research. That said, the really big ‘offenders’ are conveniently placed at the top of the list by Google. The most-reported sites, according to Google As we can see, the 4shared file-hosting site is at the top of the list. That isn’t a big surprise since the site has been going for years, attracts massive traffic, and stores countless million files. There are a number of other familiar names too, but what is the site in second place? MP3Toys.xyz has a seriously impressive 49.5m takedown requests logged against it. We’ve never even heard of it. Checking the site out, MP3Toys is clearly a pirate platform that allows users to download and stream unlicensed MP3s from thousands of artists. There are hundreds of these kinds of sites around, probably pulling content from YouTube and other web sources. But here’s the problem. According to Google, MP3Toys.xyz (which also uses a .tech extension) has only been appearing in its databases since Jun 30, 2016. During this short time, Google has received requests to remove 49.5 million URLs from its indexes. That’s about 1.6 million URLs for each of the 31 weeks MP3Toys has been online. No site in history has ever achieved these numbers, it’s completely unprecedented. So MP3Toys must be huge, right? Not exactly. According to Alexa, the site’s .xyz domain is ranked the 25 millionth most popular online, while its .tech domain is currently ranked 321,614 after being introduced in January 2017. In loose terms, this site has no significant traffic yet will soon be the most-infringing site on the whole Internet. How can this be? Well, it’s all down to an anti-piracy company making things up and MP3Toys going along with the charade. As seen in the image below, along with outfits such as the BPI and BREIN, anti-piracy outfit APDIF do Brasil has an unusual fascination with MP3Toys. In fact, it’s sent the vast majority of the notices received by Google. However, while some of the notices are undoubtedly correct, it appears a huge number are absolutely bogus. Instead of scanning the site and sending an accurate takedown notice to Google, APDIF tries to guess the URLs where MP3Toys stores its content. A sample list is shown below. The problem here is that in real terms, none of these URLs exist until they’re requested. However, APDIF’s guesses are entertained by the site, which creates a random page of music for every search. The content on these auto-generated pages cycles, but it never relates to the searches being put in. As shown below, even TorrentFreak’s Greatest Hits Volume 77 is a winner (Test it yourself here) So in summary, APDIF makes up its own URLs, MP3Toys randomly generates a page of music that has nothing to do with the URL input, APDIF logs it as an infringement of its clients’ rights, and sends a complaint to Google. Then, putting the icing on an already confused cake, Google ‘removes’ every URL from its search results, even though it appears they were never in them in the first place. And that’s how a site with virtually no traffic received more DMCA complaints than The Pirate Bay. Unbelievable. Source: TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 Made a search in MP3Toys.xyz with my name and got about 100 returns where title or singer/band contained my first or last name. Selected about 3 randomly, could play them but after it followed some steps to provide a download, didn't get anything. Presume this site never will be my favorite to get my music By the way, it's quite obvious that this site has no mp3 stored anywhere in it's "server". All titles are from YouTube! So MP3Toys are pirating to be a pirate site! They are just a fake, probably a way to increase "contacts" for some other sites. So what is the reason behind the "fascination" of ADIF do Brasil with this site? Maybe it's just some personal issue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 23 hours ago, luisam said: So what is the reason behind the "fascination" of ADIF do Brasil with this site? Maybe it's just some personal issue! It probably has more to do with the company that ADIF do Brasil hired to find infringing links and that the company may get paid by the number of links it reports. I don't see how it could be a personal issue since the site basically does nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 The question of "unusual fascination" is rised by the original revue. Probably there are hundred of sites, many of them widely used and more known then MP3Toys are doing the same and better! So why ADIF do Brasil "picked" it when, under the same reasoning, they could report any and/or all those other sites? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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