Google now receives more than 2 million piracy takedown requests a day | The Verge

Google now receives more than 2 million piracy takedown requests a day | The Verge

November 23, 2015 November 22, 2015 November 21, 2015 That's 1,500 takedown requests a minute It's been a while since we checked in with Google's Transparency Report, the company's blog that keeps tabs on search result takedowns and related issues, but it seems the war on piracy has only been  getting more frantic . As TorrentFreak pointed out in a  recent post , Google now receives just over 1,500 requests every minute to remove URLs from its search results. That's 25 requests a second or around 2,160,000 a day — double the amount of requests the company was receiving over the same time period last year. Last month's most prolific domains were the target of half a million requests Last month's takedown requests came from 5,492 copyright owners and pertained to 72,207 specific domains, meaning that each domain, on average, was the subject of around 900 takedown requests. However, this stat doesn't paint a totally accurate picture,

Read full article from Google now receives more than 2 million piracy takedown requests a day | The Verge