Google handled 345 million copyright takedowns in 2014

It's a 75% year-over-year jump, and exponentially more than a few years ago.

by Joe Mullin - Jan 6 2015, 10:05pm CET

Piracy news site TorrentFreak reports that Google removed 75 percent more URLs in 2014 than it did the previous year.

Google doesn't tally up annual totals, but it does release weekly reports on DMCA notices, and TorrentFreak took it upon itself to add up the weekly reports. Most of the takedown requests are honored. Google has a longstanding tradition of supplying DMCA takedown notices to Chilling Effects, a website that archives such requests.

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