American record companies have since may 2011, over 20 million notice-and-takedownrequests submitted to Google, it is evident from the transparency report of that company. Google removes copyrighted content as that of the copyright owner.
Although the figures relate to the last two years, since the time that Google started this figures to release, the vast majority of the takedown requests in the past year submitted. The number of requests this week, the 20 million is reached. The requests come from the members of the RIAA, the American interest group of the music industry. Among them are companies such as EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner. A small part of the takedown requests by the RIAA itself submitted.
Relatively the most takedown requests, almost 975.000, relate to data on Filestube.com but also the Dutch website Downloads.nl with over 750,000 takedown requests one of the sites for which many requests are made. The same applies for the websites Pisamba, MP3s.pl and BeeMP3.com.
The RIAA writes in a comment on the milestone are pleased with the cooperation of Google, but even better protection of copyrights to want to have. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that the notice-and-takedown procedure is arranged, according to the RIAA obsolete, because it is already rigged before companies such as Google, devices like the iPad and filesharingdiensten when Megaupload existed.
