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Originally Posted by ruel
Yes, you can occasionally get Google to stop indexing certain pages if you have a copyright claim, but once a file gets on file sharing websites it spreads like wildfire. Once one websites has a file it will spread to other websites within hours. There really is no way to get a file is removed. I don't think even the US government would be able to get a file off the internet, which seems to have held true with WikiLeaks (which now has over 1400 mirrors).
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I know of writers who have done it successfully enough that a Google search will not show up any unofficial downloads. They might be there in dark corners, but not where "normal" people would be able to find them. So statistically, the people who do have access to them don't really matter.