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Google reportedly receives 2 million DMCA requests a day to take down content including pirate links on search.

It least at one point in the 2006-2010 range, Google would display a Chilling Effects link to the actual DMCA takedown request when some of your search results were censored by a DMCA takedown. The DMCA takedown request is required to specifically enumerate the censored URLs.

The end result was a DMCA takedown often resulted in an indirect "Certified by Sony" link to non-fake infringing copies.

To add: this is not even a small business, but a non-profit with a security mission.

The other two large recursive resolvers, Google and Cloudflare, are protected by the District Court of Northern California, and more generally, by US law. Although we didn't find out about it until last Friday, the court documents show that Sony got this attack underway just thirty-five days after we moved out from behind the shield of the US courts.