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DMCA take downs surely have been growing.

However, isn't 50 million still a drop in the bucket, considering google's index is around 45 billion?

At the rate the requests are growing there is no way to see if the requests are legitimate. This allows the DMCA to be used as a weapon against sites that are not infringing anything.

http://techflap.com/2012/10/microsoft-sends-dmca-notices-to-...

On the site you can see which individual requests were rejected (or partially rejected).

e.g. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

if you look through the page of all requests

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

there is a column which shows which requests have urls that were rejected. You have to go back pretty far to find requests with rejected URLs (since there are a lot of requests and urls are rejected only rarely).

e.g. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

I applaud Google for at least trying to do the right thing, but how do we know what percentage of false positives/negatives are in there?

A third party is free to go through googles transparancy reports, there take down requests, and use the engine itself to validate what got taken down. As far as I am aware, Google is the only party devoting the resources nessasary to go through their DMCA requests.

They will grow, and not in a good way. These are automated requests, and RIAA and the others don't really care if a percentage of them are not correct. The problem is that if your site was in these lists, and you actually have a fair use, your complaint will be manually processed - so it will take a lot of time.

BTW, the site list[1] looks like a great index for file sharing sites; somehow it defeats the purpose.

[1] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

For anyone interested in pirating content on the internet, it is already pretty easy (even without google search, or this page in particular). So it doesn't really change anything.

Right. twitter search for putlocker.com or sockshare.com #whac-a-mole I never understood how megavideo got taken down when youtube had a much larger library of pirated content. Still does. Just watched Dredd 3D on it last week.

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