50 Million
Pages Removed From Google This Year Due To DMCA Piracy Reports
We know that the number of DMCA requests have risen since
Google introduced its Pirate Update, a penalty against sites that have an
unusual number of legitimate DMCA requests filed against them. But what’s the
count? TorrentFreak.com did the math and counted that Google took down over 50
million search results or URLs in 2012 alone.
To be exact, Google removed 51,395,353 links from their
search engine in 2012, and 7,816,766 of those were issued by the RIAA
(Recording Industry Association of America), which led the number of requests
and taken downs.
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