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Google Asked To Remove 3 Billion Piracy Related Search Results
Anti-piracy software may not be a problem for pirates, but this could be one. Copyright holders have been continuously asking Google to take down pirate links, filing a number of DMCA takedown requests. In Google’s Transparency Report regarding copyrights, the company reported that it has been asked to remove over 3 billion infringing search results. The frequency of these reports increases every day, and roughly 3 million piracy related links are being reported on a daily basis. BPI, a major UK music industry group, who accounts for 10% of the all DMCA takedown requests on Google talks about how much effort it takes to combat piracy. “This 3 billion figure shows how hard the creative sector has to work to police its content online and how much time and resource this takes. The BPI i...