Networks Go After Piracy by Sending Google 345 Million DMCA Notices

It's reasonable for media companies to protect their investment against piracy, but sending millions of takedown requests every year seems like a losing strategy.

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Online media piracy is held up by larger media companies as one of the biggest sources of lost revenue in the industry. To that end, many companies have aggressively pursued DMCA takedown notices and according to TorrentFreak, Google received 345 million requests in 2014.

While Google doesn’t issue a yearly DMCA report, TorrentFreak analyzed the weekly reports, and found that the number of offending URLs submitted by copyright holders was 345,169,134. There has reportedly been a huge surge in takedown notices in

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