The music industry has joined forces to fight piracy by demanding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to police online activities for instances of theft. Around 400 artists, songwriters, managers and music organizations are calling for reforms of the broken DMCA. Read more
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Google gets 2 million takedown requests daily (& many more in the future)
Copyright holders are closely keeping an eye on pirate links in Google’s search results. They have even reached 100,000 reported URLs every hour. In recent years, they would target links to alleged copyright infringing material and overloaded Google with DMCA takedown notices. Read more
Periscope seeks better ways to combat internet piracy
After making headlines during the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight as people gathered there to watch the fight of the century for free, Periscope aims to innovate and fight piracy. Read more