The AchieVer Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Rightholders Have Asked Google to ‘Remove’ 4 Billion Pirate Links Copyright holders have asked Google to remove four billion links to 'pirate' search results over the years. The vast majority of these requests were honored. This includes hundreds of millions of URLs which are not yet indexed. These end up on a preemptive blacklist instead. For most people, search engines such as Google are an essential tool to enjoy the web in all its glory. With clever algorithms, the company offers a gateway to billions of sites, many of which would otherwise remain undiscovered. This also includes many ‘pirate’ sites. While there are plenty of people who don’t mind seeing these show up in search results, their presence is a thorn in the side of copyright holders. At the beginning of this decade, this problem was hardly recognized. When Google published its first transparency report, it received just a few thousand requests per day. Today, that number has grown to well over two million. For years this number kept going up and up. While that trend was broken recently, the total now adds up to an impressive figure. Google’s transparency report shows that copyright holders have asked the company to remove four billion links to alleged copyright-infringing content. The majority or these requests, more than 90%, were indeed removed or put on a preemptive blacklist. The four billion links were reported by 168,180 copyright holders who identified 2,283,811 separate domains. These domains also include false positives, including websites of The White House, the FBI, Disney, Netflix, the New York Times, and even TorrentFreak. 4 Billion… Most reported links do indeed point to copyrighted material, however. Google typically takes these out of their search engine softly after a request comes in. This means that the takedown process works as intended. However, it remains controversial. Several major copyright groups see the huge number of reported links as evidence that their efforts are futile. No matter how many links they submit, there are always new ones to find the next day. “Every day we have to send new notices to take down the very same links to illegal content we took down the day before. It’s like ‘Groundhog Day’ for takedowns,” RIAA CEO Cary Sherman described the situation previously. Ideally, the major copyright groups would like Google to remove all results from known pirate sites. However, the search engine believes that this goes a step too far, warning that it could lead to overbroad censorship. “When it comes to entire websites, Google may demote a site in our search results if we receive enough copyright removal notices for it, but we do not remove full sites from search results for copyright infringement.” “Although this would reduce our operational burden, whole-site removal is ineffective and can easily result in the censorship of lawful material,” Google wrote in its latest overview of anti-piracy measures, published late last year. Google itself is not completely apathetic to the piracy issue. It does ‘demote’ sites for which it has received a substantial number of takedown notices. These will then appear lower in search results. The demotion ‘signal’ can weigh even stronger for specific keywords, such as recently released films. This demotion strategy gives copyright holders a “powerful tool against rogue sites,” Google notes. When new pirates sites appear, copyright holders can target these with takedown notices, after which Google will demote them. As such, the four billion reported links will likely be five billion by the end of next year. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rightholders Have Asked Google to ‘Remove’ 4 Billion Pirate Links Copyright holders have asked Google to remove four billion links to 'pirate' search results over the years. The vast majority of these requests were honored. This includes hundreds of millions of URLs which are not yet indexed. These end up on a preemptive blacklist instead. For most people, search engines such as Google are an essential tool to enjoy the web in all its glory. With clever algorithms, the company offers a gateway to billions of sites, many of which would otherwise remain undiscovered. This also includes many ‘pirate’ sites. While there are plenty of people who don’t mind seeing these show up in search results, their presence is a thorn in the side of copyright holders. At the beginning of this decade, this problem was hardly recognized. When Google published its first transparency report, it received just a few thousand requests per day. Today, that number has grown to well over two million. For years this number kept going up and up. While that trend was broken recently, the total now adds up to an impressive figure. Google’s transparency report shows that copyright holders have asked the company to remove four billion links to alleged copyright-infringing content. The majority or these requests, more than 90%, were indeed removed or put on a preemptive blacklist. The four billion links were reported by 168,180 copyright holders who identified 2,283,811 separate domains. These domains also include false positives, including websites of The White House, the FBI, Disney, Netflix, the New York Times, and even TorrentFreak. 4 Billion… Most reported links do indeed point to copyrighted material, however. Google typically takes these out of their search engine softly after a request comes in. This means that the takedown process works as intended. However, it remains controversial. Several major copyright groups see the huge number of reported links as evidence that their efforts are futile. No matter how many links they submit, there are always new ones to find the next day. “Every day we have to send new notices to take down the very same links to illegal content we took down the day before. It’s like ‘Groundhog Day’ for takedowns,” RIAA CEO Cary Sherman described the situation previously. Ideally, the major copyright groups would like Google to remove all results from known pirate sites. However, the search engine believes that this goes a step too far, warning that it could lead to overbroad censorship. “When it comes to entire websites, Google may demote a site in our search results if we receive enough copyright removal notices for it, but we do not remove full sites from search results for copyright infringement.” “Although this would reduce our operational burden, whole-site removal is ineffective and can easily result in the censorship of lawful material,” Google wrote in its latest overview of anti-piracy measures, published late last year. Google itself is not completely apathetic to the piracy issue. It does ‘demote’ sites for which it has received a substantial number of takedown notices. These will then appear lower in search results. The demotion ‘signal’ can weigh even stronger for specific keywords, such as recently released films. This demotion strategy gives copyright holders a “powerful tool against rogue sites,” Google notes. When new pirates sites appear, copyright holders can target these with takedown notices, after which Google will demote them. As such, the four billion reported links will likely be five billion by the end of next year. Source
steven36 Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Who uses google to pirate anymore ? Even if i get the result from them i hardly pay any mind too it because i use a instance of Searx with Bing , Yandex , DuckDuckgo , Yahoo and Google turned on in the settings i been bookmarking sites since Yahoo was the top search engine ,and using Altavista was a big thing that is were Google stole most of there ideas from . Just like Altavista and Yahoo before them , Google will fall on it's backside one day . Altavista: The Rise & Fall of The Biggest Pre-Google Search Engine https://digital.com/about/altavista/ Altavista: was so good back in the day that Yahoo bought search results from them, then they bought Altavista and ruin it . they could of bought Google and Facebook but didn't these sites came very close to being phased out. only reason Yahoo fall was due to some bad business decisions witch i'm sure Google will do in the future . A search engine that hides part of the internet is not worth nothing to me. Google keeps blacklisting warez sites but warez sites still get tons of hits and private torrent sites and forums never cared about Google no way they block what goes on from Google bots . The way i find out about Appznet and Nsanedown was by word of mouth on other sites.Only the 1st warez forum i join i found with Google because they were the biggest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 19, 2019 Administrator Share Posted March 19, 2019 On 3/17/2019 at 7:02 AM, steven36 said: Who uses google to pirate anymore ? One can find some good information and links on their DMCA pages there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 On 3/18/2019 at 11:10 PM, DKT27 said: One can find some good information and links on their DMCA pages there. Shoot most the time i use USA vpn isp anymore because i pirate behind a paid download service and i visit pahe.in to download a movie and they have blocked the USA Quote URL: pahe.in/ Block ID: GEO02 Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. Time: 2019-03-26 21:14:17 Server ID 14012 Pirates sites don't care about Google USA I have to use TOR Browser or Non USA VPN IP too even access that site now! it worked earlier today, that sites owner is from Indonesia . By the way i already know were the sites I use are, so no need for me to visit a DMCA page . Uptobox , Turbobit and Uploaded all blocked the USA for awhile back when the Feds raided MegaUpload . A country make a pirate site mad Google won't have to block them they will do the blocking. Just like most direct download porn blogs block Vietnam ips because porn is illegal there .. but so far they never cared about downloading movies yet i belong to 2 forums from Vietnam for years and they have good mega links . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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