Ten Websites Hit With 70m DMCA Complaints in a Year

As copyright holders try to make copyrighted content harder to find, many send infringement reports to Google. According to the company’s Transparency Report the top ten targets are focused on file-hosting, site unblocking, and music downloads. Google has received a staggering 70 million complaints about them – in the last year alone.

What is interesting is how a relatively small number of domains account for a disproportionate number of takedowns. For instance last month two sites – file-hosting site 4shared and MP3 site GoEar – accounted for close to 11 million takedowns. That means that it took complaints against another 77,855 domains to make up the remaining 76 million URLs.

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