Monday 23 November 2015

Google now receives more than 2 million piracy takedown requests a day

Google now receives more than 2 million piracy takedown requests a day






It’s been a while since we checked in with Google’s Transparency
Report, the company’s blog that keeps tabs on search result takedowns
and related issues, but it seems the war on piracy has only been getting
more frantic. As TorrentFreak pointed out in a recent post,
Google now receives just over 1,500 requests every minute to remove URLs
from its search results. That’s 25 requests a second or around
2,160,000 a day — double the amount of requests the company was
receiving over the same time period last year.

Last month’s most prolific domains were the target of half a million requests

Last month’s takedown requests came from 5,492 copyright owners and
pertained to 72,207 specific domains, meaning that each domain, on
average, was the…

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