August 3, 2015 at 17:24Google receives requests to remove 18 pirated links per second
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Copyright holders continue to increase the number of DMCA requests they send to Google to remove links in the search results. Now you have to process these requests at a frantic speed: 18 links every second, and the number is growing very quickly.
In 2008, such requests came only a few dozen a year! And only last month - 47 million!
Last week, a historic record was recorded: 12.5 million links in seven days.
Among the most active “complainers” are the British Association of Phonogram Manufacturers (BPI) and the American Association of Recording Companies (RIAA). Together they sent 5.5 million suspicious links for removal to Google last month, which is 12% of all requests.
But even they are far from specialized agencies that deal with the removal of information from search results: Rivendell and Degban reported 7.7 million and 6.3 million links, respectively.
For the month, requests were sent by more than 2600 copyright holders, 77 514 individual domains are suspected of violations. The main ones are the MP3 search engine myfreemp3.re (approximately a million deleted links), as well as several domains associated with Pirate Bay.
The vast majority of requests are satisfied, except for some duplicate links or where Google did not notice a violation. However, copyright holders are still unhappy with Google’s efforts in this direction. They believe that Google should somehow deal with pirated content on its own so that it does not appear in the search at all.
Google does: last October, the search engine learned to lower in the issuance of domains that copyright holders often complain about. But they require more: in general, remove them from the issue permanently. Google is holding on. Let's see how the situation will develop further.
In 2008, such requests came only a few dozen a year! And only last month - 47 million!
Last week, a historic record was recorded: 12.5 million links in seven days.
Among the most active “complainers” are the British Association of Phonogram Manufacturers (BPI) and the American Association of Recording Companies (RIAA). Together they sent 5.5 million suspicious links for removal to Google last month, which is 12% of all requests.
But even they are far from specialized agencies that deal with the removal of information from search results: Rivendell and Degban reported 7.7 million and 6.3 million links, respectively.
For the month, requests were sent by more than 2600 copyright holders, 77 514 individual domains are suspected of violations. The main ones are the MP3 search engine myfreemp3.re (approximately a million deleted links), as well as several domains associated with Pirate Bay.
The vast majority of requests are satisfied, except for some duplicate links or where Google did not notice a violation. However, copyright holders are still unhappy with Google’s efforts in this direction. They believe that Google should somehow deal with pirated content on its own so that it does not appear in the search at all.
Google does: last October, the search engine learned to lower in the issuance of domains that copyright holders often complain about. But they require more: in general, remove them from the issue permanently. Google is holding on. Let's see how the situation will develop further.
