Google Asked to Remove 1M Pirate Links Per Day

Holy cow! This makes you wonder how many pirate links are on the internet to begin with?

For the first time ever Google is now processing an average of one million removal requests per day. The new record follows an upward trend with copyright holders reporting more and more allegedly infringing search results in an effort to deter piracy.

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Yet somehow the main ones that have been around for years go on untouched.

So why does The Pirate Bay still saturate the first page of all the legitimate searches I make on Google?

Armenius said:

So why does The Pirate Bay still saturate the first page of all the legitimate searches I make on Google?

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Seriously, everytime you want to look up a song or movie the first few links are torrent links. I think they are only eliminating the bottom of the search list for piracy links. TPB probably makes google lots of money.

So they're processing 1 million per day? That's scary, not because of the requests but there is no way they're doing all of manually, which means we're left with their YouTube auto-take down request system which is not a good thing.

I simply do not believe those numbers. Imagine the work load to process 1,000,000 requests a day? I doubt there have been 1,000,000 movies, songs, videos combined ever produced. That's a big god damn number.

Mike89 said:

I simply do not believe those numbers. Imagine the work load to process 1,000,000 requests a day? I doubt there have been 1,000,000 movies, songs, videos combined ever produced. That's a big god damn number.

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...and books and games and software and photos, and porn

All your porn are belong to us.

Mike89 said:

I simply do not believe those numbers. Imagine the work load to process 1,000,000 requests a day? I doubt there have been 1,000,000 movies, songs, videos combined ever produced. That's a big god damn number.

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Not if they have an automated removal system like they have with youtube, where you're guilty first and then have to prove that you're innocent later

Mike89 said:

I simply do not believe those numbers. Imagine the work load to process 1,000,000 requests a day? I doubt there have been 1,000,000 movies, songs, videos combined ever produced. That's a big god damn number.

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Thank you--I was going to say much the same thing... When it comes to ridiculous and meaningless numbers, the RIAA and MPAA are the King fibbers... Back in the early days of the RIAA's "let's sue our customers" brainstorming, I recall reading one "report" that "60,000,000,000" songs *per week* (yea, billion) were being illegally downloaded...ROFL... There was no proof put forward that *any number* of songs were being pirated--just accusations. This was back when the RIAA was trying to either shut down the Internet distribution model to go back to CD-based music distribution, or else it was trying to make all ISPs responsible for whatever amounts of money they claimed they were losing. Always with huge numbers pulled out their a**es.

Ah, lawyers...the bane of Western civilization. Only their mothers could love them (if they didn't try and sue their mothers, that is)...

So... the war on Piracy is working about as well as the war on drugs.

Instead of trying to fix the majority of the problem (cost/availability/ease of access/release dates) they are trying to get rid of the channels that distribute the content instead of trying to improve their business model to accommodate the modern consumer.

How many of those claim are legitimate? I'm sure some have nothing to do with pirate sites or copyright infringement but are merely for censorship for silencing critics, competing businesses and political views.