DMCA Copyright Takedowns To Google Increased 10x In Just The Past Six Months
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 12 December 2012
In just six months, the number of DMCA takedowns that Google receives has increased by a factor of 10 from 250,000 per week to 2.5 million.
Given how many times we see copyright maximalists complaining that Google doesn't take DMCA takedowns seriously, I wonder if anyone else out there processes so many DMCA notices in such a short period of time.
When one company is processing over 10 million takedowns per month, the system is clearly broken. Maybe it's time to look at why -- but, of course, Congress just wants to stick its head in the sand instead.
Let's hope the DMCA takedowns increase by a factor of 100 or 1000. At some point it will get so bad that politicians are forced to do something, even if it's just because they cannot copy and paste from a Wikipedia article anymore.