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Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search.
Link-Busters has become the first anti-piracy company to report more than a billion 'copyright-infringing' URLs to Google search.
These outfits scour the web for links to infringing material and subsequently ask the operators of these sites and services to take action. Initially, the takedown efforts were largely driven by music and movie industry companies, with the adult entertainment outfits taking over after that. The rise of shadow libraries, combined with the threat of AI scraping, has made these companies very active on the anti-piracy front.
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