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posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 26 2014, @01:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the Is-a-digital-millennium-1024-years? dept.

Fluffeh writes:

A new paper published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology shows that the number of DMCA notices received by Google increased 711,887 percent in four years. The increase can be credited to a few copyright holders and industry groups such as the RIAA, who started an avalanche of takedown requests after the SOPA and PIPA bills died in Congress.

New research by Stanford Law School's Daniel Seng reveals that online services such as Google and Twitter have seen a surge in takedown requests in recent years. In fact, drawing on data from ChillingEffects.org, Seng finds that the number of DMCA notices processed by Google increased 711,887 percent in four years, from 62 in 2008 to 441,370 in 2012.

The most active copyright holders up until 2012 were the RIAA, Froytal and Microsoft, each listing more than five million notices. Seng's paper doesn't include the most recent data, but Google's Transparency Report shows that these numbers more than doubled again in 2013.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by physicsmajor on Wednesday March 26 2014, @07:27PM

    by physicsmajor (1471) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @07:27PM (#21691)
    You're right, a fraudulent DMCA notice is in fact perjury. That is, if it's actually an official DMCA notice...

    But that's not what is going on here. Google and most other large companies which host user-uploaded materials do not require an official, legal, DMCA notice. What they've done instead is willfully provided private means for MAFIAA-like organizations to flag content they believe is infringing. The MAFIAA log on to a private portal and can spam links all day long "flagging" content they don't like.

    These flags are done privately, outside the eye of the law. They get things removed just as fast, but skirt the "protections" built into the DMCA while the MAFIAA goons laugh all the way to the bank.

    Any time Google likes, they could discontinue this system and force all takedown notices to be submitted publicly in the eye of the US legal system, exposing the submitters to actual perjury counter-suits. This is the correct decision. That they have not chosen to do so should go a long way toward informing you which side such organizations - including Google - actually favor in truth.
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