The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has now forced Google to remove over 10,000,000 links from their search index. If you followed any part of the Kim Dotcom story, you’re aware of the tremendous international power that these organization have as they continue to enforce their copyrights online.
We do not support the downloads of illegal music and feel that you should at all times support the artist. However the issue at hand is the process. The RIAA who represents Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment can send the removal request to Google and the link is then immediately removed. There is no due process or fair trial. They take you down and that’s it.
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As you can see by the graph above, the RIAA must have created some sort of algorithm or software to find alleged illegal links and automatically hit Google with removal requests. The increase towards the end of 2012 is dramatic.
Digital Music News who originally published the story notes that Google can handle these claims whereas smaller companies such as Grooveshark may fall under the intense pressure.
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