Google takes down more than eight 'pirate' links every second

Despite reports that piracy is good for revenue, search engine removed 5.3m links in a week for copyright holders

• Samuel Gibbs
• theguardian.com, Monday 7 October 2013 

Google took down 5.3m links to pirate content in the first week of September 2013 - just under nine every second. Photograph: Walter Bieri/AP

Google took down a record-breaking 5.3 million allegedly infringing links from its search engine in the last week of September, equivalent to just under nine links every second.
The data, released as part of Google's transparency report, shows a significant rise in the number of takedown notices filed by copyright holders to Google over the last year.
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