As a sizeable hoster of thing and collector of connectedness , Google receives its fair share of Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( DMCA ) squelcher notices . Only , that fair percentage has increase by around a billion percent since 2006 .
Under the DMCA sign by Bill Clinton in 1998 , sites like Google are n’t nonimmune for textile they host , provided they answer to a valid complaint from a copyright holder in a “ well-timed style . ” It ’s a sensible , well - intentioned piece of music of law that allow land site that bank on user - submitted capacity ( YouTube , for example ) exist .
But it ’s also worryingly susceptible to abuse — big copyright holders jazz how the system work , and sites are nonimmune to take on guilty until proved impeccant , since they do n’t need to be part of any lawsuit .
regrettably , an increase turn of copyright holders are watch that DMCA spamming plant . They use bot to trawl host sites and hunting engines , find anything that expect remotely infringing , and then order Google to take it down .
YouTube ’s Putting Its Money Where Its Mouth Is on Fair Use
The number in Google’slatest transparency report , remark byTorrentFreak , bear out the scheme . Google is handling 75,000,000 DMCA requests every calendar month for hunt alone . That ’s an astronomical increase from the century of thousands per calendar month it was handling in 2011 , and a different order of magnitude to the eight per monthfrom the early 2000s .
On the one hand , you could translate the numbers and assume that DMCA is working as intended , disembarrass the internet of its offending copyrighted material . Or , you could bear that millions of valid links are getting capture in the crossfire , and you ca n’t evenpost a picture of a dance sister without get DMCA - spammed these Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . I reckon it ’s up to you ( and a federal court ) to decide .
[ TorrentFreak ]
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