As of now, the three most active and hardworking copyright owners have told Google to remove infringing links from their search results. Here, over a Billion Takedown requests have been sent whereas Google has come under some sorts of trouble.
While around 160,000 rights holders are asking Google to remove copyright infringing content. Out of which, hardly 0.0001% are actually responsible for flagged links.
Therefore, to let you know the entire story, let’s move ahead and discover some essential things on the same.
Three Copyright Owners Have Sent Google Over a Billion Takedown Requests Story
Every day at a relentless pace, the copyright holders are filling Google with DMCA takedown notices. Some links are directed to pirated content. While notice volumes have gone to a considerable extent, numbers are still alarming.
Right in the year 2018, copyright holders have reported a whopping 700 million infringing links to search engine. Most of these are specifically hidden making it hard to find in the search results.
Since 2011, around 160,000 copyright owners were using Google’s takedown tool. Together, every copyright owner submitted around 3.8 billion URLs since then to the current date.
However, after closely inspecting the current scenario, it has become clear that the small rights holders are doing the most damage.
In such rights holders, the UK music group by the name BPI tops the list of the most hardworking copyright owners. Till now, the group has reported 425 million website URLs which is more than 10% of the total pages.
Secondly, music groups such as APDIF Mexico and APDIF Brazil are being listed on the second and third place. They have reported around 252 and 247 million website URLs respectively.
What does this mean? The top copyright owners are reporting more than a billion links which are truly outstanding.
Till now, it’s quite clear that the high numbers of link reports are done by the small copyright holder groups.
A Word of Mouth by Google
“While we will continue to act on these notices, they suggest that the volume of URLs we block is not a good proxy for the number of allegedly infringing links we serve,” Google previously noted.
On the part of Google, three organizations submitted the URLs in the year 2017 where all of them had non-index rates. As such, the reports are not saying something about infringing links and not much has been clarified.
While the entire link ban scene is ongoing, Google is yet to give a brief explanation on the same. However, different famous copyright holders are doing their work on a silent scale and are not coming into the big picture.
As for the scene of the pirate streaming box is taken into consideration, they are growing majorly in the UK and the regions of Canada.
Read More: The Australian Court Demands ISPs to Block 181 Pirate Domains
Final Word of Mouth: Three Copyright Owners Have Sent Google Over a Billion Takedown Requests Story
Now, it will be interesting to see whether the takedown requests volume will increase over the period of time or not. Will it decrease or the billion takedown requests list will increase? We will have to wait and watch out for.
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