Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year (torrentfreak.com) 68
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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Re:Always check the Chilling Effects link. (Score:4, Insightful)
I would imagine you have just answered your own question.
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Yacy [yacy.net] is making an effort... decentralized P2P is the way. It should be more difficult to shut down, but it could be easier to pollute. After that, your ISP will be the next obstacle to overcome.
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It's the one that matters the most. Being on Bing etc. may not worry the alleged content owners nearly as much. Perhaps Bing gets a lot of removal requests also. Bing it and find out. (You can google Bing, and you can bing Google. ee-eye, ee-eye, oh)
Bad link removal fees could be a nice source of revenue for search engines. Maybe I should try that racket: create a search engine, named like free-movie-search.com, and scan sites with a dodgy
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Bing it and find out.
Please don't say that.
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Nah, being that slimy would make me feel like a politician.
Hey, when in Rome...
908,237,861 (Score:5, Funny)
A new Whack-A-Mole high score!
like sperm (Score:2)
male birth control is highly ineffective.
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nonsense, there is 100% effective male birth control. Cut those nuts off, problem solved.
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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)
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I don't know how it sounds to him but it sounds to me like you missed the premise of his statement entirely.
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Provide it to your customers in a way that they'll pay for it. That's already working for Netflix and Pandora. Protecting archaic business models hurts everyone.
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Fine, then do your work on commission. Leave out the exciting finish until you get your price. Write the next chapter for your book after you are adequately paid for the previous. There are many ways to get paid for performing work. A mechanical reproduction is not a performance.
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Fine, then do your work on commission. Leave out the exciting finish until you get your price. Write the next chapter for your book after you are adequately paid for the previous. There are many ways to get paid for performing work. A mechanical reproduction is not a performance.
It's my work, my creation, I should be able to control what's done with it. Who are you to dictate terms to me? What have you done to bring this work to a reality? What moral authority does the user of the work have over its creator?
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I should be able to control what's done with it.
No you shouldn't. The other replies already explained it quite simply. Unless you block the light from your lamp, I can read from it. Unless you block the smoke from your pipe, I can enjoy the aroma, or the high. And the things I purchase are mine, not yours to control in any way. You can get paid for performing the work, not for my enjoyment.
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Unless you block the light from your lamp, I can read from it. Unless you block the smoke from your pipe, I can enjoy the aroma, or the high. And the things I purchase are mine, not yours to control in any way. You can get paid for performing the work, not for my enjoyment.
A work of art is so much more than a light from a lamp or an aroma from a pipe, the comparison is so demeaning.
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the comparison is so demeaning.
Copyright is more so. Nobody has any right to control what I possess.
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How does the Fashion Industry do it without copyright? [ted.com]
HINT: You don't Imaginary Property to make money.
Hell, when even a patent attorney are saying society should be Against Intellectual Property [mises.org] then you know there is a problem.
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Sounds like you should be working on something that isn't easily copied
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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
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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
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Wait.... I recognize that geometric progression (Score:2)
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So charge for each claim.
I'm suffering math or comprehension issues. (Score:2)
Missing the forest for the trees (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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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)
A billion pirate links... thats like 4 blogs.
p1r@736@y is still... (Score:1)
Stubborn (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Microsoft will pay you a little bit to use Bing (Score:1)