Pirates went through a rough patch this past year. Shortly after KickassTorrents and its alleged owner Artem Vaulin went down, competing sites Torrentz.eu and TorrentHound swiftly followed suit. But while The Pirate Bay is still there to hold the fort, an unlikely alternative is starting to shape up: Google Drive.

Hollywood studios and other copyright holders have inundated the Mountain View heavyweight with nearly 5,000 takedown requests for files hosted on its cloud storage service in the last 30 days alone, Gadgets 360 reports.

In fact, Google’s cloud service has become such a popular recourse to The Pirate Bay that, according to popular link removal platform Lumen Database, each infringing DMCA complaint is accompanied by at least a dozen Drive-hosted files.

Pirates appear to have come up with various workarounds to slip through Google’s defenses. Though they would often use Drive to share downloadable links for media files, other times they would merely share empty links with embedded YouTube videos to avoid detection.

This is the same loophole porn pirates exploited to host smut flicks on YouTube back in January.

But here’s the thing: To avoid getting caught, pirates have made all of these clips unlisted and have instead opted to distribute them on numerous underground forums, Facebook groups and other discussion boards. This makes it more difficult for both Google and copyright holders to discover and flag such files.

Earlier this year, the internet giant revealed it has began using a technique, more commonly known as file-hashing, to thwart the spread of infringing content early on, but it turns that approach isn’t entirely foolproof.

By comparison to Google’s 4,700 DMCA requests, Lumen has logged less than 200 complaints targeting rivalling services like Dropbox, OneDrive and even Kim Dotcom‘s Mega (which accounts for over 100 of these).

Meanwhile, Drive is hardly the only Google service pirates have figured out how to abuse.

In addition to the cloud service, crafty illegal uploaders have began listing infringing streaming links via My Maps (which lets you create and share custom maps), since the Big G purportedly has no verification protocol in place on the platform.

So why tap Drive and My Maps? The answer is fairly simple: Ease of accessibility and plenty of storage to work with.

For one, a single Google account grants you access to both Drive and YouTube – a convenience you won’t come across in Dropbox and Mega; then there’s Mountain View’s 15GB of free storage, trumping the much less accommodating 5GB and 2GB offerings from OneDrive and DropBox respectively.

But given that tech giants like Google and Microsoft have gradually been buckling under pressure from studios and rightsholders, there’s no telling how long pirates have before they’re forced to seek safe haven once again.

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