BPI asks Google to remove 160,000 URLS from search results in May
Friday, May 25th 2012 at 11:12AMAccording to Google's stats (see image above), the BPI - on behalf of its members - claimed exclusive rights to content in 162,721 URL removal requests in May until yesterday (Thursday 24).
As a result, the BPI are the second top copyright owner in the past month in terms of takedown requests. Microsoft is No.1.
The trade body has been open in asking Google to blacklist or de-prioritise file-sharing sites in its search results. The company has refused, but has ...
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