Copyright holders were not shy about asking Google to take away pirate content in 2014 . Last year , there were over 345 million requests to take down infringe content , according to a Torrent Freaksummary of Google ’s hebdomadary transparence reports . That ’s a 75 percentage increase from 2013 . Google honour most of the request .
That ’s a huge increase from 2008 , when the hunt engine received less than 100 put-down notices in a year . Now it processes over 1 million a day , withmusic industriousness groupsgoing intemperately against site apportion pirated content :
Most takedown postulation were sent for the domains4shared.com , rapidgator.net and uploaded.net , with more than five million target URLs each . The UK Music manufacture radical BPI is the top copyright bearer of 2014 , good for more than 60 million reported link .
Last declension , Googlecracked downon Pirate Bay and other popular torrenting sites , interchange its hunting algorithmto demote site with lots of takedown notices . It was a capitulation amid tautness between the tech troupe and groups like the MPAA and the RIAA that believe people will stop torrenting content if it ’s heavy to line up on Google . ( Never mind that reports show that searchisn’t a leading traffic driverto torrenting site . People who want to watch Fury early and for free are savvier than that . )
The glut of requests to kill torrenting site and other conflict content evince how copyright holders are unfairly putting the load on Google to moderate what information is available online . Google can not neuter plagiarism . Getting rid of one connect site does n’t make it harder for multitude to make another one in the same amount of time .
The troupe ’s efforts to promote sound ways to admittance content are belike more fruitful than these 100 of million of attempts , pressured by right of first publication holders , to decapitate a seething , content - thirsty hydra with infinitely multiplying fountainhead and zero desire to pay for anything . The expectation that Google must act as a curator of legitimacy is an oversimplification of the piracy military issue .
I ’ve asked Google whether it will confirm this number and will update when I receive a reply . [ Torrent Freak ]
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