Google: 99.95% of Recent ‘Trusted’ DMCA Notices Were Bogus
Found on Torrentfreak on Friday, 24 February 2017
“For example, in January 2017, the most prolific submitter submitted notices that Google honored for 16,457,433 URLs. But on further inspection, 16,450,129 (99.97%) of those URLs were not in our search index in the first place.”
A proactive takedown of a non-existent URL necessarily happens in advance of any determination of whether that URL is infringing, which goes way beyond any legislation currently being demanded.
That is pretty obviously a plain abuse of the system and should result in the termination of the submitter's account.