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# Google Copyright Infringement Reports 4X This Year
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/google-copyright-infringement-reports-4x-this-year/
- Published: 2013-08-02T12:28:00.000Z
- Updated: 2013-08-02T12:28:00.000Z
- Description: The battle against piracy appears to have moved from the court to the search engine. The number of takedown requests that Google receives weekly has grown four times over the. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/08/google-copyright-infringement-reports-4x-this-year.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Music Tech, " copyright infringement, copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Google, Intellectual property, Microsoft, Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act, Uniform Resource Locator, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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The battle against piracy appears to have moved from the court to the search engine. The number of takedown requests that Google receives weekly has grown four times over the past two years from 200,000 reports filed weekly to 4.5 million weekly reports, according to a [Statista](http://www.statista.com/topics/1001/google/chart/1311/copyright-removal-requests-at-google/?ref=hypebot.com) analysis. The Chart:

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