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.

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Number of copyright infringing URLs requested to be removed from Google Search, as of February 2024, by target domain (in millions)
Number of content removal requests to Google for privacy and security from 2020 to the first half of 2024, by platform
Number of content removal requests to Google for defamation from 2020 to the first half of 2024, by platform
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Biggest copyright infringers of all time worldwide as of September 2015, based on infringing URLs removed (in millions)
Number of content removal requests to Google by courts and government agencies from 2020 to the 1st half of 2024, by product
Distribution of content removal requests to Google for fraud from 2020 to the first half of 2024

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