
The number of requests to delete links to "pirated" resources, shown by Google search service, is growing like an avalanche. More recently, the expense of such removal requests went to thousands. Now for the millions. So, in 2013, the corporation had to remove more than 100 million links, but the year was not over yet. This is more than twice the amount of materials removed last year. On average, Google has to remove 15 million pirated links each month.
The corporation began publishing information on the number of links removed from its issuance in its
Transparency Report last year. Since then, the number of DMCA requests from rights holders has grown very quickly, one might say, as an avalanche. Needless to say, no one is able to process millions of requests manually, even letting them draw an entire army of people to work. Therefore, the overwhelming majority of the links that the right holder requires to remove from the issue are deleted. For example, requests for deletion, if you take the exact number, were sent to 105300000. And more than a hundred million requests were satisfied.
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According to the Google report, the RIAA is one of the most active participants in the process of sending out DMCA removal requests. This group is the “author” of more than 26 million such requests. The most interesting thing is that the RIAA is not satisfied with the results of Google’s work on combating pirated links, so the group requires the search engine to ban not individual links, but whole resources, i.e. make domains in the "black list" (regular, yeah). So far, the Corporation of Good responds with a refusal to proposals to conduct such a method of dealing with pirates, but we all know how effectively the RIAA can act.
There is one more negative point in all this - thousands of “good” links are being removed from the issue of Google, by erroneous queries. And to achieve recovery is quite difficult, if not impossible. Google is trying to improve the process of working with DMCA requests, but all this is not so easy to implement.