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Technology @lemmy.world ModerateImprovement @sh.itjust.works 2 days ago

Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search.

torrentfreak.com Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search * TorrentFreak

Link-Busters has become the first anti-piracy company to report more than a billion 'copyright-infringing' URLs to Google search.

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Is this even an effective approach? The pirates I know don't use Google to find content anyway.
- Whenever I want to pirate something I just go straight to btdig. And if there's no torrent and I really need to search the web, I've had much better luck with Yandex. I figure they're more resistant to takedowns from western corporations
- Those takedown services are mostly trash. At my last job we got, well, not a billion of them, but a substantial number and so many were dead URLs, sites that don't exist anymore, wrongly identified content, IPFS gateways and so on.
  
  A shocking few were actually content that they claimed it to be, and I can't imagine whatever this company is doing with google results is somehow more useful in preventing piracy.
  
  Sounds like a classic cash grab—which is kind of like piracy.
- does google still do that thing with "some links on this result page were excluded based on this request", followed by a link to full text of the request, said link included? 😆
  
  Truthfully, I do not know. I haven’t been using Google anymore because the result quality is so poor.
- No, not really. They just register a new domain.
  
  I.e xyz.com buys xyz.net and the cycle never ends.
- I mean yeah I know most pirates won't use Google and will use other search engines but the majority of people using the internet don't even know that there are other search engines to use. Keeping them off Google is effective at preventing them from reaching other people.

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