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TorrentFreak reports
In a single week (beginning August 18, 2015) Google processed a mind-boggling 13,685,322 allegedly infringing URLs. That's almost 23 copyright complaints handled by the search giant every single second--or 100 URLs in the time it took to read this sentence.
In the most recently reported month, 5,991 copyright holders and 2,683 reporting organizations requested the removal of 55,702,393 URLs from 80,256 domains.
The most complained about services were all file-hosting sites including Chomikuj.pl (1,089,458 URLs), Rapidgator.net (711,175), and Uploaded.net (664,299).
[...] Two [...] sets of circumstances are undoubtedly inflating the figures reported by Google. Interestingly, they're both a direct result of copyright holder actions.
While domain takedowns have inconvenienced several large sites in recent times, those affected are increasingly using multiple domains to mitigate the problem. It's a strategy now being employed by many of the leading torrent sites--cut one head from the hydra and another appears, as the saying goes.
[...] Another big issue is caused by site blocking. Again taking The Pirate Bay as an example, there are now dozens if not hundreds of active proxies, mirrors, and clones, each of which attract their own sets of takedown demands.
[...] The tide of notices being sent to Google [...] [appears] to be having almost no effect on content availability. All popular movies and music tracks remain just a few clicks away. Let's not forget, Google takes down links to content, not the content itself.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hash14 on Thursday September 10 2015, @10:14PM
Copyrighting digital works just doesn't work because they're so easy and harmless to copy - and making it illegal isn't going to do anything to stop it. But these are the inefficiences with which we end up when trying to prop up industries and business models like these which aren't relevant anymore.
How much progress has been hampered because of this idiotic concept that a person or organization can own and control the flow of information? If we weren't wasting all this effort trying to censor the internet, then we could spend more time building tools that do _useful_ things. As for copyright-centered industries, they will either have to learn to live with it (and maybe even embrace it) or come up with a business model that can't be obviated by these very devices and interconnected services which pretty much all their users have nowadays.
I'll say it again: no matter how hard you fight, you can't use a legislative solution to solve a technical issue. This whole copyright business is about as effective as making it illegal for the sun to set.