Google's Top DMCA Sender Plateaus at 70M Takedowns per Week
Google has processed billions of DMCA takedown requests, with Link-Busters as the leading sender. However, Link-Busters has reached a plateau of approximately 70 million URLs per week, with no growth in recent months. The reasons for this plateau remain unclear, as Google has not confirmed any limits on the number of notices processed.
- ▪Link-Busters accounts for over 6.5 billion delisting requests, more than a third of Google's total.
- ▪The company's takedown activity has plateaued in the 60 to 70 million weekly range for about a year.
- ▪Link-Busters has a low error rate, with less than a percent of notices being duplicates or errors.
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Home > Anti-Piracy > DMCA > Google has processed billions of DMCA takedown requests during the first months of the year. Reporting agency Link-Busters remains the top sender. While its dominance remains, the company appears to have hit a takedown ceiling of roughly 70 million URLs per week. Google won't confirm whether there's a limit on the notices it processes and says that trusted parties "can submit the quantity they need." Link-Busters is the preferred anti-piracy partner for many of the world’s largest book publishers, including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. The Dutch company is also the most active DMCA sender at Google by a wide margin, flagging billions of ‘pirate’ URLs in the search engine, mostly from shadow libraries.
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