Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of ‘Pirate’ URLs Last Year
Hacker News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
With YouTube Music and YouTube TV, Google helps out on the supply side. This isn’t required by the DMCA, but rightsholders use this feature en masse. If demand is unmet by legitimate supply, users will seek pirated content. At the same time, the company also tweaked its search engine to steer people away from piracy.
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