Publishers Are Stepping Up Their Battle Against Internet Piracy
Copyright owners seem to be intensifying their fight against internet piracy. From January to August, Google received 131.4 million URL removal requests. The number of URLs experiencing complaints relating to copyright infringement is now more than twice as high as the whole of last year. Meanwhile, the volume of removal requests has reached 4.7 million per week. More information on the topic can be found in the Google Transparency Report.
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This chart illustrates the sharp increase in copyright removal requests filed with Google over the past two years.
