Copyright holders have asked Google to remove 5 million unique domains

... In response to Google’s enforcement efforts and other anti-piracy measures, some pirate sites regularly switch to new domain names. That can help to get these sites back into the search results, albeit temporarily, since progress often doesn’t last.

This week, the search engine reached a new milestone. Since its records began, Google has now received takedown notices for five million unique domain names.



This ‘achievement’ prompted us to take a close look at the...

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