google Google Asked to Remove a Billion “Pirate” Search Results in a Year

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Copyright holders asked Google to remove more than 1,000,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine over the past twelve months. A new record, in line with the continued rise of takedown requests and the increase in pressure on Google to do more to tackle piracy.

 

Copyright holders continue to flood Google with DMCA takedown requests, targeting “pirate links” in the company’s search results.

 

In recent years the number of notices has exploded, breaking record after record.

 

This week TorrentFreak crunched the numbers in Google’s Transparency Report and found that over the past 12 months Google has been asked to remove over a billion links to allegedly infringing pages, 1,007,741,143 to be precise.

 

More than 90 percent of the links, 908,237,861 were in fact removed. The rest of the reported links were rejected because they were invalid, not infringing, or duplicates of earlier requests.

 

In total, Google has now processed just over two billion allegedly infringing URLs from 945,000 different domains.

 

That the second billion took only a year, compared to several years for the first, shows how rapidly the volume of takedown requests is expanding. At the current rate, another billion will be added by the end of next summer.

 

Most requests, over 50 million, were sent in for the website 4shared.com. However, according to the site’s operators many of the reported URLs point to the same files, inflating the actual volume of infringing content.

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Google takerdown requests over time

 

takedown notices was also placed on the political agenda. In the UK, for example, proposed amendments to the UK’s Digital Economy Bill propose fines for search engines that fail to properly target piracy.

 

At the same time, the U.S. Government is considering changing the current takedown requirements.

 

The Copyright Office launched a public consultation in order to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the current DMCA provisions. This review is still ongoing and was extended earlier this month.

 

Thus far the consultation already triggered heavy criticism of the DMCA process from various copyright groups. However, according to Google itself, the current system is working just fine.

 

“The notice-and-takedown process has been an effective and efficient way to address online infringement,” the company informed the Copyright Office earlier this year.

 

“The increasing volume of URLs removed from Search each year demonstrates that rightsholders are finding the notice-and-takedown process worthwhile, efficient, and scalable to their needs.”

 

While Google believes that the millions of reported URLs per day are a sign that the DMCA takedown process is working correctly, rightsholders see it as a signal of an unbeatable game of whack-a-mole.

 

Various copyright holders and industry groups have asked the Government for broad revisions.

 

Among other things they want advanced technologies and processes to ensure that infringing content doesn’t reappear elsewhere once it’s removed, a so-called “notice and stay down” approach.

 

For now, however, nothing has changed, so it is expected that the number of reported pirate links will continue to increase.

https://torrentfreak.com/google-asked-to-remove-a-billion-pirate-search-results-in-a-year-161128/

 

 

[straycat19]

It's such a joke.  Whack-a-mole is an understatement.  I was looking for a TV show episode that is 5 years old and had no problem finding a link to download it even though there were literally 1000's of links to it that had been taken down over the years including removal from youtube numerous times.  None of these companies should be paid anything since they obviously fail at what they are being paid to do...which is have content removed.  Pirates win.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, straycat19 said:

 None of these companies should be paid anything since they obviously fail at what they are being paid to do...which is have content removed.  Pirates win.

I wish this was reality  were they didn't delete nothing,  but it's not true just because you're tech savvy enough to find  a working  link  dont mean nothing , most file-host they uploaded too 5 years ago but a few they dont upload too anymore . So it was most likely was reuploaded . even some torrent sites follow dmca  , some dont , some file host seem to not care ether , Google can remove all the links they want but if you know the actual websites and don't go threw 3rd party search what Google does dont matter . Google is not the only place that list warez sites and all you need is too bookmark  the sites and most sites have 1st party search . Who wants too fool with digging threw google when you already know were to find it? Google has a bad rep for removing links and real pirates have wised up to it and Google is no longer  peoples 1st choice anymore witch in the end just hurts Google they lose hits .

 

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Google carry the cost of being the working dogs for these dmca trolls.

Google should charge money per link so they profit and will be happy doing the chores for these trolls.

In the end, the trolls will lose a lot of money and they will stop trolling, hopefully.