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from the Is-a-digital-millennium-1024-years? dept.
Fluffeh writes:
A new paper published in the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology shows that the number of DMCA notices received by Google increased 711,887 percent in four years. The increase can be credited to a few copyright holders and industry groups such as the RIAA, who started an avalanche of takedown requests after the SOPA and PIPA bills died in Congress.
New research by Stanford Law School's Daniel Seng reveals that online services such as Google and Twitter have seen a surge in takedown requests in recent years. In fact, drawing on data from ChillingEffects.org, Seng finds that the number of DMCA notices processed by Google increased 711,887 percent in four years, from 62 in 2008 to 441,370 in 2012.
The most active copyright holders up until 2012 were the RIAA, Froytal and Microsoft, each listing more than five million notices. Seng's paper doesn't include the most recent data, but Google's Transparency Report shows that these numbers more than doubled again in 2013.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27 2014, @01:22PM
By dividing the 2012 figure by the 2008 figure we reveal 7118 recent notices for each historic one; the math in the article is sound; which figures they cherry picked is the real mislead.
Unfortunately, I can still remember 2008.. in user content based games like Secondlife, DMCAs were being flung around like candy at a Christmas parade.
What the article actually reveals is that Google was 700,000% more responsive to DCMAs and the users of this service responded in suit.