Last year over 3.5 billion DMCA take down requests were made to Google. Despite several attempts to make piracy less visible in its search engine, the problem isn’t going away. Funnily enough, its the publishing industry which represents the largest portions, primarily targeting e-book piracy websites.
Some of the largest publishers in the world, make up the largest number of take down requests, eclipsing gaming, videos, and pirate television boxes. Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Princeton University Press are going on overdrive to try and purge the internet of pirate audiobooks, e-books and digital textboooks.
These organizations are represented by the anti-piracy firm Link-Busters.com, which leads all competitors in takedown volume. In recent weeks, the company has sent more takedown notices to Google than all other senders combined.
The publishers are primarily targeting the shadow libraries. Such as Anna’s Archive and Z-Library. These sites index millions of books and articles, across multiple domain names. Z-Library has hundreds of domains linking to the same content and publishers are sending millions of take down requests a month.
via Torrentfreak
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
