Taking illegal, explicit content on Drive ‘very seriously’: Google

New Delhi: Alarmed at the spread of illegal software licenses, movies, games and porn content by users on Google Drive, the company on Wednesday said it takes such issues very seriously and take appropriate action when find such content that violates its policies.

IANS had reported that pirates of the Internet are freely storing and sharing illegal software licenses, movies, games and porn content and most of which have allegedly been indexed in Google Search as some Drive users made such links public in their individual accounts.

A Google spokesperson told IANS that “Drive has clear policies that prohibit the distribution of content that contains malware, copyrighted and sexually-explicit material”.