Google's search engine becomes new antipiracy weapon

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Sites that generate too many copyright takedown notices will be moved lower in search rankings. And Google will be busy: Copyright owners flagged more than 4.3 million URLs in the last 30 days alone.

Google search will be less welcoming to sites accused by copyright owners of piracy.
On the company's blog, Google outlined a new measure designed at penalizing sites that generate too many complaints from copyright owners.

"We will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site," Google said in the blog post. "Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results."
This appears to be among the most significant antipiracy measures Google has ever adopted. The company's powerful search engine is the route through which most people on the planet conduct Internet searches. For the past two years, Google has made more and more concessions to copyright owners, who have long demanded that Google take steps to prevent its search engine from aiding copyright infringement.


One of their biggest requests was for accused pirate sites to be blocked from showing up in search results. Copyright owners didn't get that much, but they got something approaching it. What can't be forgotten is that there are all kinds of sites that index and help steer people to sites that share unauthorized film and music files.
In the blog post, Google suggested that the intent of the change is not for the company to become a copyright cop but to help weed out illegitimate sources of music, movies and other digital media.

Source: Google's search engine becomes new antipiracy weapon | Internet & Media - CNET News

Whether this will control piracy really?

Spoiler

By this time, lots of people knew about torrents alone can be searched by torrentz.eu. Whats the point of google here? Is it just for rapidshare-kind of sites? I'm afraid that too can be searched by filestube.com

 

[random_hero]

Where there is a will, there is a way.

Savvy people know their way around.

 

[freshseasons]

And the Point being ?

Its not that i used Google to fish out THB ....ever.

 

[suyash_123]

this will not help for anti-piracy much.....

it will give them power to block/abandon site even if there are some legal issue .

But other wise that site is full of useful content...

filtering of the Search results is One way to tame the internet in my view...

Google is one of free content provider like youtube, bloggers and other sites and it has lots of copyright videos/stuff, and now he has to block that to from search results ...

We need a Google alternative soon


Bad move by Google

 

[tkin]

Whether this will control piracy really?

By this time, lots of people knew about torrents alone can be searched by torrentz.eu. Whats the point of google here? Is it just for rapidshare-kind of sites? I'm afraid that too can be searched by filestube.com

Torrentz.eu is no longer trustworthy, its taking torrents down against dmca notices, its becoming pretty useless, almost all popular links are removed

Spoiler

*i.imgur.com/JoJ3q.jpg

The only was now is to search directly from tpb/133x/h33t.

this will not help for anti-piracy much.....

it will give them power to block/abandon site even if there are some legal issue .

But other wise that site is full of useful content...

filtering of the Search results is One way to tame the internet in my view...

Google is one of free content provider like youtube, bloggers and other sites and it has lots of copyright videos/stuff, and now he has to block that to from search results ...

We need a Google alternative soon


Bad move by Google

Try Bing.

 

[d6bmg]

Is of use for those people who never bothered to look beyond first page of their search result.

 

[Flash]

Is of use for those people who never bothered to look beyond first page of their search result.

Google can be proud, at this situation.
Innocent netsurfer searches for some movie/songs and Google will say 'No results found', thereby fooling the guy.

 

[myzoneajay]

this is bad for all pirates.
for us too

 

[Theodre]

Google can be proud, at this situation.
Innocent netsurfer searches for some movie/songs and Google will say 'No results found', thereby fooling the guy.

Correct man!!! They all know that everyone start's from google which is why google is their new anti-piracy weapone!!!

 

[Flash]

Correct man!!! They all know that everyone start's from google which is why google is their new anti-piracy weapone!!!

@Google: Don't be Evil on web-newbies.

 

[Theodre]

@Google: Don't be Evil on web-newbies.

But for the newbie's of this age, free and open web is going to be a real challenge

 

[CommanderShawnzer]

whining pirates.....................
hey, but seasoned pirates venture beyond the first page.....
and people have forgotten about the word "noob"

 

[tkin]

I am on 11th page now, looking for some rare stuff, so doesn't bother me.

 

[CommanderShawnzer]

and google knows if they are not "lenient" slowly, "#1 search engine on the planet" will slump in its rank

 

[bubusam13]

Seriously speaking, Google is not the great search engine anymore. From the day it started censoring our search results... it lost its status. Many a time I find this message in Google -- search results omitted in compliance with DMCA bla bla bla. I was not searching for some pirate contents... then WTH is Google doing. Does it think all its users as thief. A search engine should search webpages, be it good or bad.

I use Duckduckgo now a days.

 

[SIDDHARTH.BEAM]

Totally agree with you . They have gone to the road of evil.

 

[Anorion]

do not dance to this evil beat

its cleaning really
if at all nubs wont get at file shares
less spam and ads in comments of uploads
all good

 

[NIGHTMARE]

How hard they try banning, we always have a way.

 

[ssk_the_gr8]

good move

 

[Flash]

I respect Google's way, but it wont bring a revolution in piracy-management.