Google processes one million URL removal requests per day
Google is now processing an average of one million removal requests per day.
According to TorrentFreak, the number is a new record for Google and follows a rising trend with copyright holders and reporting organisations increasingly reporting infringing search results in the battle to combat piracy.
Google has been publicly filing the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notices on infringing search results since 2011 via a Transparency Report. In the past month alone, Google received 30,143,926 copyright removal requests to take down URLs – that’s one request every 8 milliseconds, a massive increase from the one request every six days back in 2008.
Britain’s largest indie label company Beggars Group requested 164,730 URLs be taken down in the last month while RIAA in the US (which represents EMI Music North America, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and their associated labels) requested 2,827,488 URLs be taken down.
In May last year RIAA reached a milestone of 20 million URL takedown notices sent to Google. At the time, RIAA’s Executive Vice President Brad Buckles told Torrentfreak ISPs, payment processors and advertisers all have a part to play in the fight to curb piracy.
“We’ve seen what good can happen when there is cooperation among Internet players to achieve the mutually beneficial goal of preventing copyright theft while encouraging innovation,” said Buckles. “We hope others will follow suit.”
BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Ltd is the #1 reporting organisation, it sent 6,335,726 requests in the past month. The URL that has incited the most takedown requests is metasearch engine filestube.com; it’s received 221,393 requests with an average of 1,242 per week.
