Google takes down more than eight 'pirate' links every second...
Google took down 5.3m links to pirate content in the first week of September 2013 - just under nine every second. Photograph: Walter Bieri/AP
The famous well used search engine 'Google' has known to be one of the record breaking take downs of copyright materials from the last week of September, reaching up to 5,3 million allegedly infringing links. Between July and October 2012 copyright holders sent Google about 1.8 million link take down notices a week, increasing to 2.8 million a week in November 2012 and 3.8 million in mid-December 2012. However February 2013, take down notices hit 3.8 million a week, increasing to 4.47 million at the end of March, and finally peaking in the final week of September to 5.3 million spanning 37,413 domains from 5,407 copyright owners, which marked a 4008% increase over the first notice listings by Google in July 2011. The data below shows a significant rise in the number of take down notices filed by copyright holders to Google over the last year.
- July and October 2012 copyright holders sent Google about 1.8 million link take down notices a week
- Increasing to 2.8 million a week in November 2012 and 3.8 million in mid-December 2012.
- February 2013, take down notices hit 3.8 million a week, increasing to 4.47 million at the end of March.
- Final week of September to 5.3 million spanning 37,413 domains from 5,407 copyright owners, which marked a 4008% increase over the first notice listings by Google in July 2011.
I personally think as 'Google' is a big search engine used by an wide audience of different ages the engine is more likely to be used for searching copyright materials like the examples shown on the above image. Many young audiences use these copyright sites more than an older audience as they would want their information from reliable sources, whereas the younger audience wouldn't mind looking up copyright information. However blocking these copyright sites would not effect 'Google' in any way as they wouldn't be losing an large audience as the search engine is very popular and used most commonly by everyone around the world.
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