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Google Asked to Remove a Billion 'Pirate' Search Results in a Year (torrentfreak.com)
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.
A new Whack-A-Mole high score!
I would say that intellectual property needs to be eliminated completely. This should be a sign that something is wrong though, shouldn't it? We as a world need to have talks about this, though most people's talk on issues don't seem to amount to much. We need a serious revamp on the way the world works.
If they get 1 billion after 1 year, and within half a year that rate will have risen to 2 billion (since they will get another billion in only 6 months), then at that rate of growth that means that within 4 years they will be getting more than one pirate removal request per year for every single person on the planet.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Wouldn't "most" of 900 million be a number greater than 450 million?
I once took an excursion to Reddit, and later HN. Unlimited up/down voting sucks when dealing with a hive-mind.
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.
male birth control is highly ineffective.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
A billion pirate links... thats like 4 blogs.
we simply need a uncensored search engine. why is no one filling this niche?
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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 reputation to fill it. Content owners then pay me to remove the links. Nah, being that slimy would make me feel like a politician.
Table-ized A.I.
#1 in a google search.
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.
How much are you willing to pay for such a service?
I would imagine you have just answered your own question.
Bing it and find out.
Please don't say that.
Sort of, they give you points which can be redeemed for gift cards to the Microsoft store, Amazon, Hulu, among others.
Yacy 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.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Nah, being that slimy would make me feel like a politician.
Hey, when in Rome...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”