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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: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Thursday September 10 2015, @11:10PM
... Ideally, there would be no government-enforced censorship allowed at all.
Don't forget that the DMCA was carefully crafted* to encourage NONgovernment censorship.
*By not actively discouraging illegitimate takedown requests.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 11 2015, @01:48AM
It's very much government censorship. The government enforces copyright. The government enforces court decisions. Websites will lose safe harbor for not complying with the DMCA, and since the government enforces copyright and court decisions, this is all very much government censorship, even though they try to make it appear as if it isn't.