Google Prepares Piracy Crackdown

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cynicalsaint1

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dogstile said:
Kittenmauler said:
Guess I'll go to bing for my pirating needs lawl.
Kudos on the exact same thoughts as me :D

But i'm a little worried. "closely associated with piracy?". That's not exactly specific.
I'm guessing its mostly the word 'torrent'
 

Zechnophobe

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So If I'm totally like trying to find Torrential Rain, man I'm gonna have to remember to how to spell it?

Honestly, I think we should be focusing more on the second part of this article (DMCA) than the change in auto-completion.
 

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In changing their search results, Google is just removing piracy terms from the auto complete.

If you search for Harry Potter, one of the suggestions is no longer going to be Harry Potter Torrent.

If you actually search for Harry Potter Torrent, you'll still find all the torrenty goodness.
 

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The problem people fail to understand is that this is another case of a company or government placing large and rich multinational companies before their actual consumers.
 

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I guess I'll have to start using another search engine then. Maybe I'll use Chrome to go visit bing or baidu! :p

Not that I really approve of piracy - but damned if I'm gonna support a search engine that bows to the whims of politicians. What's next?? Censoring information on political screwups? Affairs? WARS?

No thanks. Independant search engine for me, please.


ionveau said:
Google 1998-2010

What do you Google for really? really..........we all know
Porn. Isn't that what the internet is for? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkYxgDREu2A
 

Faladorian

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Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.
 

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ciortas1 said:
John Funk said:
I don't see how I said anything blatantly wrong or stupid. Yes, Google is private, doesn't change the fact that it's a pretty big part of the internet, neither does it change the fact that by doing this, the internet is losing its neutrality.
Google is losing its neutrality. Google is not the internet.
 

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Oh, so they're NOT censoring their search engine. Just removing words from autocomplete, which I always turn off anyways. That's fine.....carry on Google.
 

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Kittenmauler said:
Guess I'll go to bing for my pirating needs lawl.
3. 2. 1. MOD ACTION!

I would edit that away as soon as possible, I know it's absolutely nuts, but mods go crazy if you so much as JOKE about being a pirate.
 

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John Funk said:
ciortas1 said:
Gindil said:
Yes to the first, no to the second. You have to stop deluding yourself, almost nobody who uses the internet will ever even know this, there's hardly any way for them to get a negative effect out of this.

Not that I'm for it, I'm for the Internet being as neutral as it possibly can.
Google isn't the internet. It's a search engine and a privately owned entity that can determine how its free service is used.
Technically the entire Internet is nothing but privately owned entities that can do whatever they want. But that doesn't make net neutrality a good ideal to strive for.
 

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Random Name 4 said:
The problem people fail to understand is that this is another case of a company or government placing large and rich multinational companies before their actual consumers.
Notice how he says consumers not customers. Obviously intentional, possibly edited. Hypocrisy is probably the most disgusting trait, and self-righteous internet pirates are idiots.

But this is must just be the mean old government and huge corporations beating up on the little guy, because you deserve other people's work for free, right?
 

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Faladorian said:
Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.
Do they have a chart like this for game piracy? Only paying customers are subjected to install limits & DRM.
 

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likalaruku said:
Faladorian said:
Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.
Do they have a chart like this for game piracy? Only paying customers are subjected to install limits & DRM.
yes they do, it's assassins creed instead of the matrix.



it's much more exaggerated, but it still gets the point across lol
 

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So having the internet censor reality is going to stop reality?
Sorry but having one of the biggest search engines trying to censor searches is a bit...I dunno... disingenuous, how about do it like they do with mature content you can turn that feature on/off.

Piracy (at least non bootlegging kinds) is a means to access information one can not easily obtain otherwise through channels different than government or retail, we do not want middle men tell us any kind of information is off limits.....
 

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Faladorian said:
likalaruku said:
Faladorian said:
Okay so:

#1)This will not stop anybody from visiting any of those sites at all.
#2)This will make it harder for people who want to shut down those sites, find them.
#3)You can never stop people from pirating unless you get rid of the internet. Even then, some guy is going to go to Blockbuster, rent a DVD, and copy it 300,000 times.
#4)Anti-Piracy always hurts the honest a lot more than it hurts the pirates themselves.
[snip]
Do they have a chart like this for game piracy? Only paying customers are subjected to install limits & DRM.
yes they do, it's assassins creed instead of the matrix.

[snip]

it's much more exaggerated, but it still gets the point across lol
Thanx :D
 

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MelasZepheos said:
They already have more power than most nations, so I don't know exactly who would stop them whatever they wanted to do. If Google announced tomorrow that they were going to shame and belittle the entire world by revealing vast quantities of personal data, they would be entirely able to and no one could stop them.

Google are terrifying, and I'm quite glad that they seem to apply pretty rigidly to the law.
The most important thing to remember about google is when you do a goodle search you are viewing their version of the web. As in, what information their spiders/bots whatever they call them return(small programs that document the web using links posted at pages, thats a very very simple version of what they do) and then how google ranks those.Popularity, how the page adheres to simple posting laws (if you write a page about rabits, it must be about rabits and not bears) you know how annoying it is when people mislabel things.

Googles power comes from its users. If they misbehave, it is as simple as goiing to another web browser. Granted they have bought most of the planet by now but still.