Copyright holders continue to flood Google with DMCA takedown requests, targeting pirate links in the companys search results.
This nearly equals the number of takedown requests it received for the whole of 2015.
The recent years have seen an increase in the number of notices, which has one record after another.
Google has up till now totally processed just over two billion allegedly infringing URLs from 945,000 different domains.
Going by the current rate, another billion will be added by the end of next summer.
Most requests, over 50 million, were sent in for the website 4shared.com.
The political agenda also noted the rush in takedown notices.
At the same time, the U.S. Government is considering changing the current takedown requirements.
This review is still on-going and was extended earlier this month.
Until now, the consultation has already caused heavy criticism of the DMCA process from numerous copyright groups.
However, the current system is working just fine, says Google.
Google has been vocal in suggesting the system is working to help stop the problem of online piracy.
However, nothing has changed for now.
As a result, there is a likelihood that the number of reported pirate links will continue to surge.
Source:TorrentFreak
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