RIAA Set For Historic 10,000,000th Google URL Takedown

Torrent Freak
February 5, 2013

From humble beginnings in 2011, last year the RIAA amped up its efforts to have allegedly infringing URLs removed from Google’s public indexes. Fast forward to today and the RIAA is about to hit a historic milestone. During the next few hours the music industry group will issue orders to the world’s largest search engine to take down the 10,000,000th URL on its behalf.

The popularity of Google’s search product, the most prominent tool the company offers, means that Internet users all around the world have a central and free point from where to seek, find and discover information.

Of course, due to the nature of the web that means access to both legitimate and unauthorized content, a situation of which the entertainment companies are well aware.

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