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it is not Google's JOB to Police the Interwebs
it is not Google's JOB to Police the Interwebs
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Google faced with a million requests a month to remove copyright searches
Google is receiving more than a million requests a month from copyright owners seeking to pull their content from the company's search results, the web giant has revealed. The number requests has grown so fast that it now often tops 250,000 a week, more than Google received for all of 2009.
The figures, disclosed in Google's transparency report, reveal that in the past month alone Google received 1.2m requests on behalf of 1,000 copyright owners targeting 23,000 websites.
Fred von Lohmann, Google's senior copyright counsel, said copyright infringement was the main reason Google had removed links from search terms. He said company had received a total of 3.3m requests for removals on copyright grounds last year, and was on course to quadruple that number this year. The company complies with 97% of requests.
The dramatic increase follows controversial and unsuccessful attempts to tighten up online copyright law earlier this year. The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) was backed by many of the world's biggest media companies and had cross party political support. But it was brought down by a global backlash from online activists.
Lohmann said the dramatic rise had come with the growth of "enforcement vendors", which police the internet looking for copyright violations. The largest submitter of requests for removals was Marketly, which serves the software industry, followed by Degban, which works with pornographers.
Figures from Google's transparency report reveal huge increase on 2009 as growth comes from rise in 'enforcement vendors'
Google is receiving more than a million requests a month from copyright owners seeking to pull their content from the company's search results, the web giant has revealed. The number requests has grown so fast that it now often tops 250,000 a week, more than Google received for all of 2009.
The figures, disclosed in Google's transparency report, reveal that in the past month alone Google received 1.2m requests on behalf of 1,000 copyright owners targeting 23,000 websites.
Fred von Lohmann, Google's senior copyright counsel, said copyright infringement was the main reason Google had removed links from search terms. He said company had received a total of 3.3m requests for removals on copyright grounds last year, and was on course to quadruple that number this year. The company complies with 97% of requests.
The dramatic increase follows controversial and unsuccessful attempts to tighten up online copyright law earlier this year. The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) was backed by many of the world's biggest media companies and had cross party political support. But it was brought down by a global backlash from online activists.
Lohmann said the dramatic rise had come with the growth of "enforcement vendors", which police the internet looking for copyright violations. The largest submitter of requests for removals was Marketly, which serves the software industry, followed by Degban, which works with pornographers.
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Harley Rider
I just wish they'd stay off these pages. A lot of times, when I read the obits, news and even these forums, I click the "back arrow" to go back one page and nothing happens. I can't go back because "google dbl click" has infected the page. I click the drop down arrow and there it is! I refresh the page and the "double click" mess is gone but it often comes back when I open other pages. I HATE ANYTHING GOOGLE! Stay out of my computer! There HAS to be some type of a blocker isn't there? 