Google received just over 75 million DMCA-related takedown requests in the month of March, representing a new high as content owners seek to keep pirate websites out of search results and invisible to people searching for leaked album downloads, movies, and other media. The rate at which the requests have grown is truly staggering; TorrentFreak says Google is effectively processing over 100,000 URLs per hour. Compare that to 2014, when Google handled 345 million requests for the entire year.
Requests must include a specific URL with infringing content, as Google has steadfastly refused to vanish entire domains from search results. "Whole site removal would simply drive piracy to new domains, legitimate sites, and social networks," the...
Source: The Verge - Tech Posts http://ift.tt/1U7x05O
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