Censorship flood: takedown notices to Google increased by 711,887% in four years

And that’s not even surprising. Automated allegations cost almost nothing to file, and as noted, there’s no penalty for abusing the system. Ownership can take months or years to prove - at a bare minimum, it takes a few minutes of human judgement. Doesn’t sound like much, until you multiply it by 400 thousand. (Or whatever the actual number is; Torrentfreak seems to have thoroughly mangled the data.)