Music groups have reported 200 million piracy-related links to Google

There’s no stopping the piracy train, no matter how hard music industry groups like BPI and RIAA try. These groups send millions of takedown notices to Google each month, and despite the company’s patience and quick responses, they still claim that Google needs to start doing more, otherwise governments are going to have to intervene. They claim this is evidenced by the fact that they’ve notified Google of 200 million allegedly infringing URLs.

Despite the growing availability of legal music services in many countries, record labels keep battling ever popular pirate sites. In an attempt to prevent these sites from expanding their audiences, music industry groups BPI and RIAA send millions of takedown notices to Internet services every month. Most of these requests are directed at Google. This week the two most prolific industry groups reached a new milestone after they notified Google of the 200 millionth allegedly infringing URL. This is up from 100 million little over a year ago. According to the most recent statistics the BPI has reported over 138 million links in 295,730 notices with the RIAA adding more than 63 million in 19,569 requests. While the record industry groups have little to complain about when it comes to Google’s response rate, they believe that removing links alone is not enough. “The fact that BPI and RIAA have together removed 200 million illegal results from Google demonstrates just how much more needs to be done to clean up search,” a BPI spokesperson tells TF.