Batu69 Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Copyright holders asked Google to remove more than 500,000,000 allegedly infringing links from its search engine in 2016 thus far. This nearly equals the number of takedown notices it received for the whole of 2015. Rightsholders see the surge as evidence of a failing system, but Google clearly disagrees. Copyright holders continue to overload Google with DMCA takedown requests, targeting “pirate links” in the company’s search results. In recent years the number of notices has exploded, breaking record after record. Data analyzed by TorrentFreak reveals that Google recently received its 500 millionth takedown request of 2016. The counter currently displays more than 523,000,000, which is yet another record. For comparison, last year it took almost the entire year to reach the same milestone. If the numbers continue to go up at the same rate throughout the year, Google will process a billion allegedly infringing links during the whole of 2016, a staggering number. According to Google roughly 98% of the reported URLs are indeed removed. This means that half a billion links were stripped from search results this year alone. However, according to copyright holders, this is still not enough. Entertainment industry groups such as the RIAA, BPI and MPAA have pointed out repeatedly that many files simply reappear under new URLs. “It’s like ‘Groundhog Day’ for takedowns,” RIAA CEO Cary Sherman said previously. This week Google addressed the issue in its updated “How Google Fights Piracy” report. In it, the company provides an overview of all the efforts it makes to combat piracy while countering some of the entertainment industry complaints. According to Google, the increase shows that the system is working and the company notes that it takes less than six hours to remove content. “The growing number of notices sent to Google by an increasing volume of different copyright owners and enforcement agents demonstrates the effectiveness and success of the notice-and-take- down system.” “As the internet continues to grow rapidly, and as new technologies make it cheaper and faster for copyright owners and enforcement agents to detect infringements online, we can expect these numbers to continue to increase,” Google adds. Still, rightsholders are not impressed and continue to demand a tougher stance from Google when it comes to piracy. Shortly after Google released its report this week, BPI CEO Geoff Taylor already dismissed it. “This report looks a lot like ‘greenwash’. Although we welcome the measures Google has taken so far, it is still one of the key enablers of piracy on the planet,” Taylor said. By now it has become clear that the entertainment industry groups and Google are not going to reach an agreement anytime soon. The issue has been going on for years now and both sides continue to make the same arguments. Various industry are now hoping that the Government will intervene at some point. Whether that will happen has yet to be seen but in the meantime, rightsholders will continue to report millions of pirate links per day. TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 There just going to reupload the links to a different url and I hope they do and continue to do that. I hope the government doesnt help alot of these take down requests are stupid and if the government doesnt help I know why its because they have better **** to do with there time then to worry about organizations bitching about what they think are pirated content and being anal-retentive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Just because Google deleted the links from there search engine don't mean the links are dead. TPB and some other torrent sites don't ever delete nothing All it takes is you to find one thing at a site from all the different search engines or word of mouth and bookmark the site then you're set. The links only get deleted if reported to the filehost or p2p site and not all sites delete them . Only search should help you find a site but most all sites have there own search . You dont use google for searching for stuff on Nsane do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 I know the links are not dead the people that are responsible for those links are going to want there links to be used in a google search and so how else are they going to get back into a google search. If nsane search stops working yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMountain Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 No Google search for me. I'm sticking to DDG & Startpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 6 hours ago, Holmes said: so how else are they going to get back into a google search A lot of sites hide there links so they don't end up on google search and other bot copy paste sites ,the ones who don't hide there links are the most easy for them to report and have the most dead links for stuff that's more than a few days old. If google has too much trouble with dmca they will remove the sites updates from there search and some sites they remove the homepage even. Once this happens Google is not worth a hill of beans to find at that sites stuff anymore and this caused a lot fake sites that are just copies of real sites . That's the whole reason they report the links to google is so you can't find the sites . The days of warez sites getting lots of hits from Google search ranking is long dead even if they change the url or domain too get listed again they will report the links and Google will ban them again. But its not just Warez they remove its news and all all kinds of stuff .Google is the worlds biggest search engine and the worlds biggest censors of media . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 The best way for you to get downloads or site visits is have your links in a search engine and yahoo and google are the most popular ones. Thats how I would do it thats why they have SEO Search Engine Optimization. You can hide the links i agree I am not usually happy about having discussions about file sharing and anti-piracy I mean dont get me wrong piracy does do damage not nearly as much damage as riaa and those organizations make it out to be and then when google does remove said links they fuck up and delete someones shit like the artists artworks from his blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMountain Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Information about DuckDuckGo's Partnership with Yahoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 I have used duckduckgo's search engine before and I like it ill switch to that if I have to. I have been using google search engine for a long time I dont think Ill ever stop using it Ill just use a different search engine to get pirated content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMountain Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 @Holmes Maybe I can change your mind regarding warez searches... http://www.nsaneforums.com/search/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Your funny and this site is usually the first site I look at for fixes and if I dont find a fix in this place I go to google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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