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Who Sends Google the Most Takedown Notices? Microsoft
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."
Google and Bing give wildly different results on many different topics, including topics that both companies are disinterested/uninterested parties. Not to say they aren't skewing the results of some hot topics, just that different results are to be expected for almost anything.
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.
Strange that MS doesn't remove from Bing the same links it asks Google to take out.
Of course not. The goal is less about taking down the sites and more about burning Google's resources through excessive takedown requests. Google ought to queue the requests in a FIFO pipe and process a small number per day. Maybe they could require payment for the processing, which does cost Google real money, to offset the time and resources wasted.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
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.
... US-style.
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Strange that MS doesn't remove from Bing the same links it asks Google to take out.
What are you implying? Next thing you'll claim Fox News only attacks liberals? You'd think everyone had an agenda.
why isn't there a google alternative that is worth a damn, that isn't in the US, isn't hosted in the US and doesn't use a US-controlled TLD, and thus, not subject to this DMCA bullshit?
Clippy: "It looks like you're writing a DMCA take-down notice..."
The goal is to make Bing the search engine most used by people looking for copyrighted content, since they could not find it on Google anymore.
Google should simply submit the same take down notice to Microsoft if the "illegal" link is found on Bing too.
Microsoft: Evil by design
Facebook: Evil by proxy
Google: Evil by accident
Apple: Evil by tyranny
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.