1.5 million DMCA requests to Google per week

[AdultKing]

The massive wave of DMCA takedowns sent by rightsholders to Google in recent months is growing at an astonishing rate. During the past month the number of takedown requests received by the search giant doubled to almost 1.5 million URLs per week. To put that into perspective, exactly one year ago weekly URL takedowns numbered just 131,577 per week, an increase of 1,137%.

http://torrentfreak.com/google-url-t...n-2011-120824/

This year is shaping up to be the year of the rightsholders.

[bean-aid]

That's not because of rightsholders, that's because people are trying to knock out their competition due to recent google announcement.

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by beaner

That's not because of rightsholders, that's because people are trying to knock out their competition due to recent google announcement.

Incorrect.

Look at Google's transparency report

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/

It's rightsholders protecting their interests. Movie Studios, Recording Industry, Game Developers, Adult Producers and Software companies.

[SilentKnight]

Canada

We received a request from the Passport Canada office to remove a YouTube video of a Canadian citizen urinating on his passport and flushing it down the toilet. We did not comply with this request.

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ls/government/

[johnnyloadproductions]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Incorrect.

Look at Google's transparency report

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/

It's rightsholders protecting their interests. Movie Studios, Recording Industry, Game Developers, Adult Producers and Software companies.

If we can get some pull from these guys into the SFL campaign we'll gain some real weight.

Mr. King, not only have you displayed competence and intelligence in your campaign, you've also shown the most important: tenacity.

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

Mr. King, not only have you displayed competence and intelligence in your campaign, you've also shown the most important: tenacity.

[Jel]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

http://torrentfreak.com/google-url-t...n-2011-120824/

This year is shaping up to be the year of the rightsholders.

The comments on that article are staggering

[bean-aid]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Incorrect.

Look at Google's transparency report

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/

It's rightsholders protecting their interests. Movie Studios, Recording Industry, Game Developers, Adult Producers and Software companies.

So its rightsholders trying to knock out their competition, and site owners trying to knock out their competition. That competition is those who steal from them.

Surely you must think that the 100 percent increase in past month is due to google announcing they will devalue sites, in part, based on the number of dmca take down notices.

[johnnyloadproductions]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Incorrect.

Look at Google's transparency report

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/

It's rightsholders protecting their interests. Movie Studios, Recording Industry, Game Developers, Adult Producers and Software companies.

Originally Posted by beaner

So its rightsholders trying to knock out their competition, and site owners trying to knock out their competition. That competition is those who steal from them.

Surely you must think that the 100 percent increase in past month is due to google announcing they will devalue sites, in part, based on the number of dmca take down notices.

You are both correct.

[RyuLion]

wooot woot!!

[kane]

I would imagine if people start seeing infringing sites falling in the serps and being replaced with real, quality sites that the DMCA numbers will just climb.

[CyberHustler]

Originally Posted by Jel

The comments on that article are staggering

"It's gonna be awesome when 3D printing lets me download a car."

[kane]

Originally Posted by Jel

The comments on that article are staggering

I like this one:

"I think most people here fail to see theres a downside to pirating everything.. it can destroy small coys and single people working from home on soft..and hence if they go under no more soft updates so plastering their work for free for direct download will destroy their potential income.. there needs to a option for these small potatoes to have stuff remove from engines

theres nothing wrong from taking from the rich though.. they made their cash and just greedy and wanting to milk it"

[halfpint]

look at the take down requests to google.com

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ns/google.com/

[bean-aid]

Originally Posted by halfpint

look at the take down requests to google.com

http://www.google.com/transparencyre...ns/google.com/

google is shit now. I search for key words and sometimes get multiple pages *all* of youtube videos. They say they penalize for DMCA notices now... so lets see the penalty to youtube and google.com.

Actually, I think they are digging their own grave, people are just going to move on and use bing or something else.

[halfpint]

Originally Posted by beaner

google is shit now. I search for key words and sometimes get multiple pages *all* of youtube videos. They say they penalize for DMCA notices now... so lets see the penalty to youtube and google.com.

Actually, I think they are digging their own grave, people are just going to move on and use bing or something else.

Yep I see a lot of posts on mainstream forums where webmasters are using bing a lot more because of googles shinanigans lol but then agian iv never really relied soley on Google anyway and im using it less and less for searching now because of the results it returns is all skewed

[Nautilus]

Search results are still heavily polluted with links to filestube and other big piracy sites, and so I'm not sure what kind of "punishment" there is right now for getting too many DMCAs with Google. How many? One billion to get links sent to the second page?

[seeandsee]

Good move from google, go deep with shit links

[extreme]

Clicking through the list there's some high profile porn sites there:

pornbb.org - ~93000 reported URLs from 274 "copyright owners"
pornhub.com - ~7400 reported URLs, the most from evil angel and new sensations

Otherwise there's tons of torrent/warez/mp3-sites in the list.