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Re:Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year by pixl97 on Friday December 28, 2012 @02:14PM (#4979025)
At the rate the requests are growing there is no way to see if the requests are legitimate. This allows the DMCA to be used as a weapon against sites that are not infringing anything.

http://techflap.com/2012/10/microsoft-sends-dmca-notices-to-...

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Re:Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year by lukesandberg on Friday December 28, 2012 @02:35PM (#4979130)
On the site you can see which individual requests were rejected (or partially rejected).

e.g. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

if you look through the page of all requests

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

there is a column which shows which requests have urls that were rejected. You have to go back pretty far to find requests with rejected URLs (since there are a lot of requests and urls are rejected only rarely).

e.g. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/...

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Re:Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year by wmf on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:44PM (#4981024)
I applaud Google for at least trying to do the right thing, but how do we know what percentage of false positives/negatives are in there?
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Re:Google Removed 50 Million “Pirate” Search Results This Year by gizmo686 on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:55AM (#4981848)
A third party is free to go through googles transparancy reports, there take down requests, and use the engine itself to validate what got taken down. As far as I am aware, Google is the only party devoting the resources nessasary to go through their DMCA requests.
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