URL Takedown Statistics: Up 1137% On 2011
August 25, 2012 6:38 amWell, this is one statistic that is interesting for a variety of reasons – we spotted this today:
“The massive wave of DMCA takedowns sent by rightsholders to Google in recent months is growing at an astonishing rate. During the past month the number of takedown requests received by the search giant doubled to almost 1.5 million URLs per week. To put that into perspective, exactly one year ago weekly URL takedowns numbered just 131,577 per week, an increase of 1,137%.”
Statistics Source: TorrentFreak
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