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"The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has called upon Google and other leading search engines to take more action against online piracy. RIAA chairman Cary Sherman said during a Congressional hearing that search companies should block all links to copyright-infringing websites, CMU reports. Google previously removed 31,922 links from its search results at the request of the RIAA, but is not obliged to block entire websites under US copyright law and has been reluctant to do so. Sherman said: &amp;quot;We hope intermediaries like search engines will follow [major advertisers and ad agencies] in negotiating voluntary marketplace best practices to prevent directing users to sites that are dedicated to violating property rights.&amp;quot; The RIAA&amp;#039;s Brad Buckles echoed Sherman&amp;#039;s sentiments in a blog post, calling the number of links Google has blocked so far &amp;quot;meagre&amp;quot;. He wrote: &amp;quot;Knowing the total number of links to infringing material available and the limitations Google imposes on rights owners to search for infringements reveals how meagre the number of notices is relative to the vast amount of infringement.&amp;quot; The Pirate Bay, which was blocked by two more UK service providers today, is among the alleged offending websites in question.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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