The argument is burning between the Spanish and Italian football leagues and Google. The latter criticize the Californian company in particular for not treating their requests for delisting of sites that illegally broadcast meetings (IPTV, pirate streaming, etc.) seriously enough. Explanations.
Google’s action criticized
If complaints have been filed against the Tech giant by Italian football officials, we do not know the exact nature of them. According to TorrentFreakthe leaders of Series A, however, criticize the Mountain View firm for failings in the current and previous seasons.
In particular, there are requests for delisting filed since last May. The removal of 84 URLs was required. However, only 12% of them were taken into account by Google. For what ? The answer is simple according to our colleagues. In fact, all others did not exist in Google’s search index when the notice was sent. The search engine therefore seems to have carried out its mission conscientiously.
The trend is the same in Spain, where 530 individual requests were filed with Google on behalf of La Liga requesting the removal of 437,524 URLs. 49.8% of this total has been delisted. 23.3% did not exist in its indexes and 3.3% appeared to be duplicates.
This does not prevent rights holders from believing that Google is “grossly negligent”. TorrentFreak also evokes a rather improbable example. Thus, Series A asked the web giant to delist its own site. The Mountain View firm’s teams were watching closely and did not comply. A blunder was therefore narrowly avoided.
Dereferencing does not prevent piracy
As a reminder, Google recently announced in a transparency report that it had received more than 10 billion DMCA notices, this procedure which allows you to report pirated content. This figure is impressive, but we can nevertheless see that the attraction of illegal offers remains very strong.
Hackers circumvent blocks and delistings by creating mirror sites that duplicate the content of their services. Internet users have also become accustomed to turning to VPNs and DNS. For more information on this subject, do not hesitate to re-read our previous article here.
Faced with piracy, the authorities are therefore once again raising their voice. In Brazil, an avenue is currently being explored to act directly on Internet infrastructures in order to put IPTVs out of harm’s way by blocking their streams. We told you about it here.
