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Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year (torrentfreak.com) 68

Posted by msmash from the keeping-'em-busy dept.
Copyright holders asked Google to remove more than 1,000,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine over the past twelve months, TorrentFreak reports. According to stats provided in Google's Transparency Report for the past one year, Google was asked to remove over one billion links -- or 1,007,741,143 links. From the article: 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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  • 908,237,861 (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:30PM (#53380195)

    A new Whack-A-Mole high score!

    • male birth control is highly ineffective.

      • nonsense, there is 100% effective male birth control. Cut those nuts off, problem solved.

        • You don't need to be so gruesome about it. Vasectomies are a neat, effective, and tidy in-out procedure with the desired effects and without the visually obvious maiming. Also, testosterone can still be produced, preventing unnecessary altering of the physical traits of the male involved.

          • vasectomies are not 100% effective, 20 of every 10,000 will produce pregnancies. You want 100%, you have to corta los huevos

  • Something needs to be done (Score:4, Insightful)

    by hackwrench ( 573697 ) <hackwrench@hotmail.com> on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:34PM (#53380219) Homepage Journal
    I would say that intellectual property needs to be eliminated completely. This should be a sign that something is wrong though, shouldn't it? We as a world need to have talks about this, though most people's talk on issues don't seem to amount to much. We need a serious revamp on the way the world works.

    • The vast majority of authors and musicians can barely make a living, they have to job at fast food chains and department stores to afford being able to write novels or making records. For example, it is estimated that only around 300 of book authors in Germany can make a living off their writing. As another example, one of my friend is a highly skilled and trained artist. She has to create her pictures in her spare time at night while grinding away her daytime in front of photoshop in a marketing company ma

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by rtb61 ( 674572 )

        Dude wake up to yourself, you are no more being exploited than the non-writer working right next to you and they lack the creating writing ability to ever escape that way, seriously what the hell is that matter with you.

        Low end shitty jobs should pay a living wage, they should be able to pay for a home, clothing, food, health care and some reasonable leisure activity. There should be no stigma that whiny writers attack to being a low end down trodden shit eating common as fuck worker, wait what, perhaps a

        • No wonder so many people I know stopped playing in bands, because they didn't want to entertain kids like you.
          • On the other hand, I play in a band because I enjoy doing it. It has never been about making money. It is a hobby that I find fun. I have no expectation of becoming rich, or even of making it into a full time job. Very few artists, writers, painters, whatever, should ever get rich from their hobby. Especially with so many creative people out there, there just isn't enough money in the market for everyone. If you enjoy doing something, do it for fun. If you happen to make some money, cool, but it should neve
      • People don't "create" things. That is a romantic notion with no basis in reality.
  • If they get 1 billion after 1 year, and within half a year that rate will have risen to 2 billion (since they will get another billion in only 6 months), then at that rate of growth that means that within 4 years they will be getting more than one pirate removal request per year for every single person on the planet.
  • Wouldn't "most" of 900 million be a number greater than 450 million?

  • Missing the forest for the trees (Score:5, Informative)

    by H3lldr0p ( 40304 ) on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:48PM (#53380331) Homepage

    The blurb quoted above missing the important part at the end of the article.

    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.

    I feel like I keep up to date with things but this caught me by surprise. Not only haven't I heard about this, but this is a pretty damn big deal. Safe harbor and other provisions, such as the notice and takedown, all rely on this law. As flawed as it is, it has helped protect the Internet as we know it. Without those provisions, we'd never see the rise of YT or music services.

    As distracting as this past election has been, this shouldn't be allowed to be slipped by us. Get on this with your letters and calls.

    • 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.

      I feel like I keep up to date with things but this caught me by surprise. Not only haven't I heard about this, but this is a pretty damn big deal. Safe harbor and other provisions, ... has helped protect the Internet as we know it.

      They are also reviewing other less savory aspects of the DMCA, including the anti-circumvention rules. There's a strong possibility that you'll soon be able to modify your phone or PlayStation without being subject to copyright infringement liability.

  • Big deal. (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28, 2016 @04:55PM (#53380401)

    A billion pirate links... thats like 4 blogs.

  • p1r@736@y is still... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    #1 in a google search.

  • Stubborn (Score:3, Interesting)

    by pigsycyberbully ( 3450203 ) on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:46PM (#53381235)

    I have never used Google search there are so many other search engines. I have noticed that Firefox automatically places a Google cookie when the browser opens.
    The new Opera browser feeds google information and has a built in Google search, and when you open the browser it automatically connects to Google.

    They say Google is the biggest spying company on the Internet and you cannot escape them. I don't believe that and I enjoy trying anyway. If you don't make it easy for them It costs them more money. If you do make it easy they take you for a cunt. I am stubborn.. And just like the word stubborn nobody knows my origin.

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