Google continues to remove more than a million URLs per day but the trend started to change a few years ago. Just 400 domains are responsible for 41% of all links removed by Google over the years. Similarly, as we previously highlighted, most of the removed URLs belong to a small group of websites. The ten most active senders reported nearly 2.5 billion URLs, more than 40% of the total. Overall, we can say that a relatively small number of rightsholders are responsible for a disproportionate number of takedown requests. These domains also include many false positives, including websites of The White House, the FBI, Disney, Netflix, the New York Times, and even TorrentFreak. The six billion links were reported by 326,575 copyright holders who identified 4,041,845 separate domain names. The majority of these requests were indeed removed or put on a preemptive blacklist. An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Over the past decade, rightsholders have asked to remove six billion links to alleged copyright-infringing content.
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