Google Reveals Copyrighted Material Claims

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Google receives nearly 1.5 million copyright claims per month from less than 1,300 copyright owners? That is an average of almost one thousand take down requests a month from each copyright holder. :eek:

"We remove more search results for copyright reasons than for any other reason." Nearly 1.25 million take-down requests were received by Google search in the past month on behalf of 1,296 copyright owners, according to the debut report, which focused on that month.
 
So...the companies are asking Google to remove the search result instead of asking the actual infringing party to remove the copyrighted material?

Why is it Google's responsibility to remove the search result for something posted online.
 
So...the companies are asking Google to remove the search result instead of asking the actual infringing party to remove the copyrighted material?

Why is it Google's responsibility to remove the search result for something posted online.

Simple, it isn't. But it's the easiest, laziest way.
 
So...the companies are asking Google to remove the search result instead of asking the actual infringing party to remove the copyrighted material?

Why is it Google's responsibility to remove the search result for something posted online.

I'm willing to bet that Google gets asked since the web-sites in question probably aren't hosted in the IP holders country, giving them next to no legal recourse.
 
So...the companies are asking Google to remove the search result instead of asking the actual infringing party to remove the copyrighted material?

Why is it Google's responsibility to remove the search result for something posted online.

My guess is that 99% of these are from porn companies, any one of the thousands of "hey this chick isn't totally ugly want to see her naked" porn sites, or larger ones like Bang Bus, etc. You get one person post links, which gets cross posted, etc etc etc, Google's spiders pick up on it, and post all the hits. Somewhat simple.

Google's responsibility, it could be something as simple as helping facilitate the copyright infringing since they're essentially cataloging where everything is, perhaps because some of said hosts are in countries where it's not an auto-remove for DMCA notices. Could be that as a US company Google needs to conform to DMCA requests, again for said cataloging of material.
 
Google should publish the top ten list under a new heading, "Whiniest Bitches Ever."
 
My guess is that 99% of these are from porn companies, any one of the thousands of "hey this chick isn't totally ugly want to see her naked" porn sites, or larger ones like Bang Bus, etc. You get one person post links, which gets cross posted, etc etc etc, Google's spiders pick up on it, and post all the hits. Somewhat simple.

But without the porn, that leaves what...3 things to search Google for? :D
 
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