Google receives 2M takedown requests a day for pirated content, up from 1M last year
The latest numbers in Google’s transparency report show that the search giant currently receives more than 65 million requests a month to remove links to pirated content – which works out at 2M per day, or 1,500 per minute.
That’s a doubling in number in a little over a year, the company reporting that takedown requests hit 1M in August 2014. Go back to 2011, and the numbers were measured in the mere hundreds.
Google introduced a new automated system last year designed to help fight piracy …
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