Google has been removing all copyright infringing URLs from search results for some time now. Sources point to more than seven billion takedown requests in the last nine months in line with DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) requirements.

Until now, these actions were limited to search results. There have been various reports over the past few hours that suggest Google has gone even further: deleting registered items from the users themselves.

Google notifies users via email that there are copyright infringing URLs in their Saved Items collections. “The following item saved in one of your collections has been found to violate Google policy. As a result, the item will be moderated…”

This URL blocking saved in private collections Through the “Google saved” function and what we save in our bookmarks.

This notification is sent when we save a URL. already blocked in search results Google’s. This means that if we have a collection of bookmarks in which we sort all these addresses, they will be lost.

Likewise, Google will not allow the saving of addresses removed from Google search. In general, we’re talking about URLs that point to (according to Google) copyright infringing torrent websites and content download pages.

Google’s actions, along with the voluntary disappearance of giants like RARBG, cause the world of torrenting and “external” downloads to be shaken even more.

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