Originally Posted by Arnox

I completely agree that their focus here is on the mainstream industry, which is why I focused heavily upon the fact that there's an automatic algorithmic change that comes with sites having a lot of DMCA requests lodged against it.

I doubt you're going to see 'Backdoor Sluts Volume 7' having its own rich snippet in SERPs that links you directly to a store so you can purchase it legally, but I do hope the first search result will now be to paysites instead of site rip directories.

It's still early days, so hopefully we can all agree that any news re: content theft and Google punishing it is a step in the right direction.

Are the tubes going to be wiped off of their #1 spots overnight? Probably not. Will they see a gradual decline if they continue to have numerous DMCA requests lodged against them? Probably so.