Google Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites In Search Results - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Jsm;37188147]You really cant use that analogy. Anyway what sort of pirate uses Google?[/QUOTE] I can find a valid warez link to most popular games and software on first or second page of google. I guess hardcore pirates already know their sources but a casual who just wants some movie or app can easily use google to get what he desires. [editline]11th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Ardosos;37188114]He was talking more abstractly, musing over what the future may bring. I'm assuming, of course.[/QUOTE] The future might or might not be worse, but there's not much google can do about it. Google is not above the law after all.

filestube doesn't even host files lol. they literally just link to other sites

[QUOTE=Vedicardi;37188260]filestube doesn't even host files lol. they literally just link to other sites[/QUOTE]filestube is related how?

[QUOTE=The First 11'er;37186686][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/b99Yo.png[/IMG] This is what a take down looks like if anyone's curious. TorrentFreak makes it out like Google is doing this on purpose and it's all their faults, when in reality it's because of the DMCA. If they receive a report from them then they're basically obligated to take it down, else they'll most likely get sued.[/QUOTE] No it's not. That's from the older enforcement methods where they remove specifically blacklisted URLs. This bumps down results from entire webpages.

[QUOTE=itisjuly;37188456]filestube is related how?[/QUOTE] listed as a main offender in the article.

[QUOTE=Greenen72;37185471][img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/20516268/Picts/googel.png[/img][/QUOTE] Also if you're logged out, you can click on the gear and then web history and disable custom searching based on activity.

People who pirate things should know their websites that have these files on them already, either bookmarked or memorized. This really won't change piracy, except maybe for a 12 year old who wants to download a single song or two.

I 'unno about you guys, but I think that [b][u][i]TORRENTFREAK[/b][/u][/i] may be a biased source.

[QUOTE=Greenen72;37187577]Your "linked" implies that the site in question is not illegally hosting copyrighted content[/QUOTE]Ah well you're kind of right then I didn't know the specifics of the whole thing. Still doesn't make me feel good about it but then again who the fuck uses Google to look for pirated goods.

[QUOTE=Reds;37180890]“Only copyright holders know if something is authorized, and only courts can decide if a copyright has been infringed; Google cannot determine whether a particular webpage does or does not violate copyright law,”[/QUOTE] yeah, this sentence seems inaccurate. Let me try [quote]“The RIAA and other major corporations like to claim "copyright infringement" on every creative work to hit the Internet, and since the courts have been accepting large bribes to agree with them, we have to take down everything that doesn't turn them a profit.”[/quote] that seems more like the current state of affairs

[QUOTE=lavacano;37193653]yeah, this sentence seems inaccurate. Let me try that seems more like the current state of affairs[/QUOTE] Implying the judicial system is corrupt because you don't agree with their interpretation of the law is retarded

[QUOTE=laylay;37181772]Cripple your search engine and a better one will take its place, simple.[/QUOTE] Shouldn't you be permabanned?

[QUOTE=scout1;37193685]Implying the judicial system is corrupt because you don't agree with their interpretation of the law is retarded[/QUOTE] Yeah, all those videos taken down from YouTube by UMG* that didn't have any UMG content in them? Look me straight in the eye and tell me there's nothing wrong with the courts that approved that. [sub][sub][sub][sub]*UMG is an example, and certainly not the only offender[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

God, I hate these idiotic entertainment industry people. "Look a video with a song or a movie clip they didn't pay us $100,000 to use, lets have them remove it for no good reason". This is just stupid: [QUOTE] independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not[/QUOTE] Then what's the point of lowering it in the first place? [QUOTE] Adding the high number of bogus DMCA notices which Google sees as valid, many sites may also be punished for the faulty takedown requests that copyright holders send[/QUOTE] And how will they enforce this? That’s worrying to say the least. I mean really, if google is going to keep doing this I'm switching to Altavista.

Something tells me the music industry wasted significantly more money on lobbying than they've actually lost from piracy.

[QUOTE=lavacano;37193911]Yeah, all those videos taken down from YouTube by UMG* that didn't have any UMG content in them? Look me straight in the eye and tell me there's nothing wrong with the courts that approved that. [sub][sub][sub][sub]*UMG is an example, and certainly not the only offender[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/QUOTE] Excuse me? Youtube has a private agreement with UMG that allows them to take down videos that made unpublicized criteria. No court said they had to. It wasn't DMCA. It wasn't a court order. The judicial system didn't rule incorrect or offensively. They didn't rule at all!

[QUOTE=RoboChimp;37193979]God, I hate these idiotic entertainment industry people. "Look a video with a song or a movie clip they didn't pay us $100,000 to use, lets have them remove it for no good reason". This is just stupid: Then what's the point of lowering it in the first place? And how will they enforce this? That’s worrying to say the least. I mean really, if google is going to keep doing this I'm switching to Altavista.[/QUOTE] [quote='Google blog']valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site[/quote] The Op's article is blatantly lying just fyi

[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/test26.gif[/img] [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] yeah yeah I know you can turn off privacyshit in google, but it still doesn't get rid of the DMCA censoring/removing sites

So now we just google for pirate-y things and go to page ten? Who even bothers using google when looking for warez.

[QUOTE=The DooD;37198998]So now we just google for pirate-y things and go to page ten? Who even bothers using google when looking for warez.[/QUOTE] I've done it a lot in desperate times and it's actually quite useful when you know how to search properly

"pirated shit site:thepiratebay.se" the day they remove this feature is the day I make bing my default search engine