Copyright holders have been keeping Google busy this year, demanding the search giant remove four times as many links to allegedly pirated content in 2013 as last year.
The search giant has removed more than 200 million such links since January, as reported by TorrentFreak, which compiled the data from Google's weekly reports.
In 2011, Google removed less than 10 million links. In 2012, just above 50 million. What's going on?
The increase in takedowns isn't necessarily connected to an increase in piracy or pirated content online. Rather, it may just be because entertainment lobbies have decided to ramp up their takedown notices, according to Mitch Stoltz, a staff attorney focusing on intellectual property at the digital rights advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Read More!
We Stopped SOPA ---- Let's Stop the TPP | Free Press
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a hush-hush trade pact that threatens millions of Internet users’ rights to connect and communicate.
Until recently the agreement had been shrouded in secrecy. But now that WikiLeaks has released some of the text, we know that the TPP would let corporations monitor our online activities, cut off our Internet access, delete content and impose fines.
The TPP is that bad. And it’s on a fast track to getting U.S. approval — without any public review or input.
This is why the Free Press Action Fund has joined forces with our friends at RootsAction to stop the TPP. Read More!
Leaked papers show TPPA puts internet providers under ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 — Under the intense lobbying of Hollywood and America’s powerful recording industry, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will make local internet service providers (ISP) liable for any copyright infringement which happens through their channels.
The leaked draft of Intellectual Property (IP) Rights chapter, published online by whistleblowers WikiLeaks, showed that under TPPA, ISPs will also be made “copyright enforcers”, giving them powers to cut off internet access to users found to have downloaded pirated programmes.
Attempts by Malaysia and other countries to limit the liability of internet service providers as middlemen of piracy had so far been opposed by the United States—seen as the key driver of the deal—and its ally Australia. Read More!
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