Google is a long-standing target of critics who claim that the company “encourages piracy.” While this is not a uniformly held view, and Google vehemently disputes it, the accusation has been voiced by many in the music and motion picture industries.
Over time, Google has implemented various systems and methodologies to try to address piracy and copyright infringement on YouTube and in search results, in part to satisfy critics and in part to satisfy the law. (YouTube’s founders initially turned a blind eye toward copyright infringement.)
Earlier this week, the company released a report called “How Google Fights Piracy” (embedded below). It also discussed those efforts in a blog post.
