Link-Busters Flagged Over 56 Million 'Pirate' URLs to Google in a WeekErnesto Van der Sar, 31 May 10:07 PM Little over a decade ago, Google expanded
 | Little over a decade ago, Google expanded its transparency report with a new section dedicated to DMCA takedown requests. For the first time, this allowed outsiders to see which URLs were being targeted by copyright holders and in what quantity. In the years that followed, we meticulously covered a steady increase in takedown notices. From just a few thousand reported links per week, soon it was hundreds of thousands, eventually crossing the 7 million mark around 2015. The graph below shows the takedown boom during these years. At the time, we covered these record-breaking numbers, which peaked at roughly 20 million links reported weekly. All Google Takedowns (2012-2016) The exponential growth curve eventually flattened out and around 2017 the takedown volume began to decline. The decrease was in part due to various anti-piracy algorithms making pirated content less visible in search results. Takedown Resurgence While Google's demotion measures are still in place, pirates haven'...Read More |
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