The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “How Big Brands – With Help From Google & Yahoo – Finance Online Piracy”.

Adam Popescu says, “Are major brands funding online privacy? The answer is yes, even if they’re not fully aware of what they’re doing.

That’s the clear conclusion of a recent report out of USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab, which says the top ad networks finance 86% of sites that feature illegally distributed content.

The results, which named Google and Yahoo among the top offenders, used Google’s ownTransparency Report to name the 10 ad networks with most takedown requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for copyright infringement on pirated sites”.

How Big Brands – With Help From Google & Yahoo – Finance Online Piracy

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