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# RIAA Demands 5 Million Takedowns In Last 6 Weeks [CHART]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/riaa-demands-5-million-take-downs-in-just-just-6-weeks/
- Published: 2013-07-08T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2013-07-08T10:00:00.000Z
- Description: Last year the RIAA requested that Google romove from its index 20 million urls to infringers. But more recently the speed of RIAA takedowns has accelerated to 5 million takedowns. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/07/riaa-demands-5-million-take-downs-in-just-just-6-weeks.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Business, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Filesharing, Google, KickassTorrents, Pirate Bay, Proxy server, Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA, TorrentFreak, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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Last year the RIAA requested that Google romove from its index 20 million urls to infringers. But more recently the speed of RIAA takedowns has accelerated to 5 million takedowns in the last 6 weeks alone. Efforts to block file-sharing sites such as The Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents are the major driving force behind the increase. Dozens of proxy sites duplicate the links hundreds and hundreds of times. The chart:

via [Torrentfreak](http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-hits-25-million-google-takedowns-web-blocking-making-things-worse-130704/?ref=hypebot.com)

[![image from torrentfreak.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20192abe1653e970d-450wi "image from torrentfreak.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20192abe1653e970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)  
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