domains Copyright holders have asked Google to remove 5 million unique domains

[Lox]

... 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 underlying data. Where are all these alleged pirate sites coming from? Who are the main offenders, and which domains shouldn’t be on the list?

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[Hypersot]

This is so stupid.

I can understand taking down the top damaging websites but..millions?!

Don't they realise that a lot of those domains have gone to domain owners that park them which in turn direct traffic to legit websites (netflix, google itself, amazon, etc.)

Taking down millions of such domains will essentially stop valuable traffic (aka. potential subscribers) using their services.

 

[DomainNature]

It's time to get rid of lazy grabbers, dear Google!

 

[pb]

It's worth noting this is a number of requests, not removals.
The domains requested for removal include google.com, netflix.com, reddit.com and (yes) namepros.com...

 

[cooljub]

I lost interest when they referred to the BBC as a reputable news outlet.