Google's copyrighted Transparency Report (the company maintains a similar list on government takedown requests) won a rare accolade from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

The rights group, a prominent critic of Google's privacy record, for shedding light on the behavior of copyright holders.

According to the RIAA's Buckles, however, the report isn't fully factual.

Buckles said that Google for places "artificial limits" on the number of queries that can be made by copyright holders to identify what they believe is infringing material.

"The number of queries they allow is miniscule, especially when you consider that Google handles more than 3 billion searches per day," he noted. "Google has denied requests to remove this barrier to finding the infringements."