Google's Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70M Takedowns per Week
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- #Google Search
- #DMCA Takedowns
- Link-Busters is the world's most active DMCA sender to Google, flagging over 6.5 billion 'pirate' URLs, primarily from shadow libraries.
- The company's takedown requests have plateaued at about 70 million per week, suggesting a possible hard ceiling, though Google neither confirms nor denies a cap.
- Google's Trusted Content Removal Program ensures trusted partners like Link-Busters can submit 'the quantity they need,' with an error rate below 1%.
- Link-Busters reports roughly 3.5 billion URLs annually, far surpassing competitors, with nearly 8% of reported URLs removed proactively by Google.