DMCA Complaint to Google - HELP

[tutugirl]

I have several sites copying my content, which I found out via Copyscape.com.  Unfortunately, this is giving me duplicate content.

I filed a DMCA complaint through Google and the infringing pages were approved but the pages still remain.

Can someone please help me understand this better?  I thought Google was supposed to remove these pages?  Am I supposed to content the site owner to get the content removed or are their pages simply de-indexed?

[CMC-SD]

The pages remain on the web, or the pages remain in Google search results?

When Google agrees that a page is infringing, it will de-index that page. If you want the page taken down, you have to send a takedown notice to the person who runs that website. Which can be rather difficult.

[tutugirl]

Thanks.  So to confirm, because Google de-indexes that page, I no longer have to worry about duplicate content for that particular page?

[CMC-SD]

Correct. Here is an official blog post on the subject: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/duplicate-content-due-to-scrapers.html