Who Sends Google the Most Takedown Notices? Microsoft

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 25, 2012 @12:49AM from the going-for-the-high-score dept.

nk497 writes "Google has released details on the copyright takedown notices it's received over the past year, and the most requests by far have been from Microsoft. Over the past year, Google has received DMCA takedown notices for 2,544,209 URLs over Microsoft-related piracy, with NBC and the RIAA ranking second and third. Many of the reports do not come directly from companies such as Microsoft, but via firms set up only to chase copyright issues. The most popular targets appear to be file-sharing sites. 'These days it's not unusual for us to receive more than 250,000 requests each week, which is more than what copyright owners asked us to remove in all of 2009,' said Fred von Lohmann, Google senior copyright counsel, adding it takes on average 11 hours for Google to take action."

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The lawsuit itself became a business case by captainpanic · 2012-05-25 01:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

The real business case is no longer the software. As the article says, there are now dedicated companies who chase copyright issues. If they cannot find a copyright issue, they'll go bankrupt. If they find more copyright issues than last year (and win a few lawsuits), they'll make profit.
I guess that soon enough, we cannot change the copyright laws anymore, because the copyright-chasers would lose their revenues.
All of file sharing domains now in one place! by ciantic · 2012-05-25 01:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

Hey! On a related note now there is a list of all file sharing domains in one place: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=all-time - neatly organized.
Welcome to free speech... by jez9999 · 2012-05-25 01:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

... US-style.

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