marked a new line in the requests that Google receives to block pages that violate someone else’s intellectual property. Blocking is carried out in accordance with the author’s law in the digital era ( dmca ) and with public at the request for public control.
Judging by the published statistics, the number of unique second -level domains mentioned in the requirements for the removal of information from the search results from the search results, exceeded 4 million. The total number of URLs declared for removal approaches 6 billion. The applications mention 317 thousand copyright owners and 321 thousand organizations, on behalf of which applications were submitted.
Since in many cases, applications are sent on the basis of automated analysis, incidents often occur associated with the requirement to remove legal contents. For example, in more than 700 thousand Applications require links to materials from Google.com, B 5564 applications requires to remove materials from the IMDB.com rating, in 3492 – links to articles with Wikipedia. 22 applications indicate violations on the FBI website, 17 – on the White House website, two on the website of the Association of Soundwriting Companies of America (RIAA), three on the Vatican website. Usually Google reveals such errors and they do not lead to the actual exclusion of pages from search results.
From couric situations, you can also note the adding Warner Bros studio to the List of Blocking, attempts to block torrents with OpenOffice and ISO-images of Ubuntu 8.10 Microsoft, blocking IRC logs and discussions in mailings Ubuntu и Fedora под The pretext of the unlicensed distribution of the film “2:22”, as well as