Google discarded 21m takedown requests in 2013

Coral Williamson

Last year, Google discarded 21 million takedown requests because the claims were either invalid or duplications of previous notices.

According to TorrentFreak. The search giant discarded 9% of the 235m links it was asked to remove in 2013.

The BPI, which sent its 50 millionth takedown request to Google in November last year, is reported to be sending notices that contain a high percentage of links that have already been taken down – up to 60% in the case of  ...

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