Three companies sent Google a billion requests for linking links

Of the 160 thousand copyright holders requesting the removal of content from the Google search results, almost a billion query is on British PhonoGraphic Industry (BPI), Apdif Mexico and Apdif Brazil.

According to the recently published data from the Google report, only three copyright holders are responsible for removing almost a billion links. Torrentfreak, who studied the report, paid attention to this.

The most complaints about the violation of the “Law on Copyright in the Digital Age” (DMCA), the American IT giant received from the British Association of BPI phonogram manufacturers. Over the past years, BPI complained about more than 425 million links, that is, it is responsible for more than 10% of complaints.

The second and third places were divided among themselves Apdif Mexico and Apdif Brazil. They have more than 252,000,000 and 247,000,000 000 removal requests, respectively. It turns out that in total, these three organizations seized more than a billion URL from the Search issue of Google.

The researchers also concluded that only 0.0001% of the total number of complaints of copyright holders (that is, only 16 different organizations) were responsible for the removal of 50% of all links. Moreover, many of these links never got into the search results of Google. The fact is that the search engine also processes unrelended links, adding them to black lists, so they never get to the issuance.

The study also emphasizes a certain decline in calls compared to the past and before last, but the numbers are still shocking. In 2018, copyright holders reported 700 million references-interpreters present in the search engine. Most of them are processed quickly enough, which makes it impossible to find such links in the search results.

For all this time, Google received requests for removal 3 885 240 543 links. But not all requests by the company were satisfied. For example, a private person, posing as a representative of the news site, sent Google a notification of copyright violations in the article of another, authoritative news site. “After conducting a check, we found out that the applicant’s website was specially created and equipped with fabricated time marks to file this complaint,” the company said.

The Agency for Combating Piracy, representing the interests of a music label, demanded to remove links to several dozen websites with the word “coffee” in the name from the results of the search results. “These websites had nothing to do with the applicant’s client,” writes Google. “We did not satisfy this request.”