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Originally Posted by avantman42
From what I can tell (based on what it says on the Google page I linked to), Google get requests to remove search results to a particular page/file. If it's valid, they remove those results, but will still link to other pages etc on that site. Sites that get many such requests will have a lower ranking in Google search results.
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It all seems very pointless.
Option 1: people can't search for a link to copyrighted work. Since the link can still be transmitted by other means, pirates will still be able to get hold of the links, but copyright holders won't be able to see that the works are available.
Option 2: the copyrighted works are just posted somewhere else. Time and money is being spent to request the removal from search results of the same works every week.
But what makes it pointless at the end is very simple: you can search by site. Or you can ignore entire sites in your search with the simple "-site:__________". This measure will only deter the very stupid.