Anti-piracy unit BREIN wants to increase number of NTD-requests sent to Google

The Dutch antipiracy group BREIN seeks to increase its daily amount of notice and takedown-requests (NTD-requests) in order to remove copyright-infringing search results. In practice, most notices are directed to Google. At this moment, BREIN submits some 10.000 NTD-requests per day, mostly containing search results that refer to infringing content on filesharing-websites such as isohunt.com and torrentz.eu.

Currently, Google maintains a limit of 10.000 NTD-requests that can be processed per day. However, copyright advocates at BREIN expect Google to increase this limit to 40.000 NTD-requests per?day. Ultimately, BREIN is planning to submit an unlimited stream of take down notices daily.

As most NTD-requests are involving Google, BREIN is fully?dependent on the capacity and willingness of Google to process notices. Therefore, it is not at all clear whether BREIN will be able to step up its daily request rate. Google spokesman Mark Jansen, for instance, plays down BREIN?s position, saying that Google can?t simply increase the amount of requests that are handled per day. The limit has been set on 10.000 to prevent unexpected spikes that might compromise Google's technical infrastructure. Google has not confirmed that this limit will simply be lifted.

Furthermore, Google states that just removing infringing search results is not the 'silver bullet' to effectively fight piracy. Therefore, it is still to be seen whether BREIN is able to increase its number of effective NTD-requests. BREIN acknowledged that this is not the only way to go in the fight against piracy, but that this is a part of the available set of measures at the moment. BREIN will also seek other means of cooperation with search engines like Bing.?

Read more about the Dutch antipiracy agency and the notice and takedown-procedure on Future of Copyright:

Source: Nu.nl

Author: Tomas Weermeijer

Source: http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2013/02/15/anti-piracy-unit-brein-wants-to-increase-number-of-ntd-requests-sent-to-google.html

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