Google now handles 2 million takedown requests over pirated content daily

Nov23

by Sindy Cator on November 23, 2015 at 5:37 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Google, mpaa, Pirated Content, riaa

Google’s transparency report shows that the search giant currently processes more than two million requests to remove links to pirated content from its search results each day. TorrentFreak notes that the company received a whopping 65 million takedown notices from 5,609 different copyright holders in the past month alone. That brings the count to 1,500 requests a minute, or double the number recorded last year. Among the organizations with the highest number of requests are multimedia copyright protection firm Degban, the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). While a large percentage of the…