This marks a 75 percent increase on 2013’s total number of takedown notices, says news service Torrent Freak.
Music industry trade body BPI filed the most takedown requests of the year, officially asking for the removal of more than 60 million infringing links from Google’s search results.
The domains that Google received the most takedown requests for were 4shared.com, rapidgator.net and uploaded.net - each of which had more than five million allegedly infringing URLs.
In September, the BPI reached a new milestone after sending a total of 100 million takedown notices over the years.
At the time, a spokesperson for the trade body commented: ‘This milestone makes two things very clear. First, that however much creators do, the system of “notice and takedown” will never be enough on its own to protect them or consumers from the online black market, or to spur growth in the digital economy.’
‘Second, that despite its clear knowledge as to which sites are engines of piracy, Google continues to help build their illegal businesses, by giving them a prominent ranking in search results.’
Over recent months, Google has taken steps to reduce the number of infringing links in its search results, including a change to its algorithm which down-ranks websites known for publishing copyright infringing links.
Music industry trade body BPI filed the most takedown requests of the year, officially asking for the removal of more than 60 million infringing links from Google’s search results.
The domains that Google received the most takedown requests for were 4shared.com, rapidgator.net and uploaded.net - each of which had more than five million allegedly infringing URLs.
In September, the BPI reached a new milestone after sending a total of 100 million takedown notices over the years.
At the time, a spokesperson for the trade body commented: ‘This milestone makes two things very clear. First, that however much creators do, the system of “notice and takedown” will never be enough on its own to protect them or consumers from the online black market, or to spur growth in the digital economy.’
‘Second, that despite its clear knowledge as to which sites are engines of piracy, Google continues to help build their illegal businesses, by giving them a prominent ranking in search results.’
Over recent months, Google has taken steps to reduce the number of infringing links in its search results, including a change to its algorithm which down-ranks websites known for publishing copyright infringing links.
