Google takedown requests mushroom as copyright holders play whack-a-mole Google received more than 65 million removal requests for search results containing alleged copyright violations in the space of the past month. The takedown demands have come from the usual suspects, including the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), which asked Google to remove 7.1 million URLs as of mid-November this year …
"To date, the BPI has requested the removal of 179,764,920 URLs from Google's search results, many of which relate to the same repeat-offending domains."
Just include a date or changing hash in the URL - and redirect old ones to the current page. BPI and similar copyright cartels defeated automagically.
If these copyright holders are like everyone else, the don't even bother sending takedown requests to any search engines besides Google. So if Google's your buddy, chances are the other guys are even better buddies.... unless the pirate sites don't bother to do any SEO for them either.
+1 for the pointless not-a-mole pic :D
In the dark? Where they are being in the dark would be an improvement of the lighting. Mass entertainment is rapidly changing literally before our eyes. We are transitioning from radio/record/concert model to something else which includes streaming media. Plus demographics are probably working against them, a little more slowly, as the populations of most develop countries age.
For example, TorrentFreak reported earlier this year about how anti piracy outfits are sending out takedown requests of URLs that don't actually exist.
https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-outfits-boost-numbers-with-bogus-takedown-notices-150628/
"About 97% are legitimate and fresh..."
Google itself has said that 97% of all takedown notices are legitimate although the specific statement that I have in mind is from about a year or two ago. On the other hand, unless there are more recent statements with greatly changed numbers in them, there's no reason to think that the situation is much different at the present time.
I smell another pigopolists law suit targeted at google coming. Basically they seemed focused on flooding google with takedowns fair or fowl and seeking to add sneak PR actions to take down say political activists sites buried in those take down requests or sue google for failing to act upon those requests.
Clearly the law needs to change so that google can inflict severe penalties upon false requests, to pay for the cost of properly reviewing take down requests to ensure they are valid.
You'll get no traction with this tack. PETA's 'must save' policy does not mention moles, because: a) They aren't cute enough, and b) Everyone knows whacking one just makes it pop up elsewhere.
Besides, that beastie is not a mole, it's a prairie dog, and their eyes are too good to make for easy whacking...
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