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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.
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.
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.
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.