Google Prepares Piracy Crackdown

[daskat]

This isn't a threat to real pirates, the guys that really make a buck with their yohoho. This is more like a discourage measure for the average block who maybe would tempted of scavenge the internets wastelands. In other words if you need to use google to find your torrents, cracks, wares and other oddities you are not a pirate, yar.
Ps.: This is 1984 happend right here.
Ps.2: Hack the planet.

 

[FlashHero]

I was fine till the last part...make "authorized preview content" more accessible in search results...that is just another term for were gonna have people pay us to make normal searches be their product as well... stupid google.

 

[gurall200]

Dear god they are making it slightly inconvenient to use a completely voluntary feature to pirate games/movies/music, which is completely within their rights as company, THOSE MONSTERS!

Seriously, the people calling google the copyright police need to read closer, I highly doubt google would start censoring and changing results, Bing tried that and looks where its gotten that.

 

[Grigori361]

That sounds like a pretty good idea to me actually. Or at the very least a Hilarious Practical Joke.

 

[AceAngel]

From what I understood...the only thing that will suffer is 'Autocomplete' form? Oh yes, what a loss...because typing in Tyranny only to Autocomplete as "Trannies packing Nannies" is a loss of life.

 

[Nouw]

Google is arguably the most visited site and most well-known so making a big announcement will only make Pirates even more cautious and cunning.

 

[Gindil]

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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 isn't a private company...

And what this does is make newer search engines focus on what Google is lacking.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Somebody please sue these anti-pirates...

 

[LT Cannibal 68]

Guess I'll go to bing for my pirating needs lawl.

oh so true! i usually use that or isohunt that's basically a google exclusively for torrents.

 

[thahat]

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.

...you can turn it off?

 

[Centrophy]

Wow, I'd hate to say it (especially on this seemingly corporatist forum) but it looks like Microsoft's Bing might make a comeback. I don't mind when Google looks over my shoulder responsibly but siding with the DMCA crowd is where I draw the line... and I don't even pirate!

 

[Smooth Operator]

I really do wonder how this will impact search results, I can't see making much difference on pirating, only making the search engine worse.

 

[Aeshi]

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.

3&4) You could easily replace "Piracy" with "Malware" and that statement would be just as true. Should we just stop trying to do anything about Malware?

Remember kids, if a film has a few minutes of anti-piracy message (which only exist because people pirate said movies) that makes it perfectly OK to steal it!

 

[MMMowman]

What's next Google taking down porn?

 

[Hashime]

Damn, I use these so called "Piracy Sites" as a convenient way to distribute some legitimate content, as well as get legitimate content. Not all torrents are illegal.
Also, my school has a direct download hub, I can get anything without even going online, not that I do...

 

[drbarno]

Remember kids, if a film has a few minutes of anti-piracy message (which only exist because people pirate said movies) that makes it perfectly OK to steal it!

You're missing the point there. What he's saying is not that it's okay to pirate the DVD, it's that the anti-piracy things they place on their do nothing to stop the pirate's, and just annoy the paying customers more.

 

[Faladorian]

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.

3&4) You could easily replace "Piracy" with "Malware" and that statement would be just as true. Should we just stop trying to do anything about Malware?

Remember kids, if a film has a few minutes of anti-piracy message (which only exist because people pirate said movies) that makes it perfectly OK to steal it!

Malware isn't that big of a problem for me (i have a mac, but i spend most of my time on the windows partition, but even then i never get viruses. Also, yes. Because I find that Virus-hunting software will always cause you more problems than viruses, and I've had viruses delete windows before. Viruses are the price you pay for using an open-source OS, and anti-virus software makes your computer slow and chances are one is going to get through and hurt your computer anyway.

Also, it's a hyperbolic chart. Of course pirating is not justified it's just ironic that it's easier to find and download an illegitimate copy than to go and rent the movie. It applies with games, too (except the good game-bad game ratio is a lot better than the good movie-bad movie ratio... god so many terrible movies)

 

[KEM10]

Of course pirating is not justified it's just ironic that it's easier to find and download an illegitimate copy than to go and rent the movie.

I've found it is easier to torrent a film than go to the basement and attempt to remember where I placed that film in the box or shelves of films. Also, when you play a DVD on the computer you can't just slide the tracking bar across, you have to click next and go through their designed checkpoints.

 

[Faladorian]

Of course pirating is not justified it's just ironic that it's easier to find and download an illegitimate copy than to go and rent the movie.

I've found it is easier to torrent a film than go to the basement and attempt to remember where I placed that film in the box or shelves of films. Also, when you play a DVD on the computer you can't just slide the tracking bar across, you have to click next and go through their designed checkpoints.

Says who? Most media players have a sliding bar that you can slide around much quicker than two-arrows-pointing-to-the-right-times-thirty-two. And I'm talking about if you don't already own this movie, it's easier to torrent it than to go rent it. If you already have it there's no point.

 

[newwiseman]

I just tried searching for 'Muse Discography' on a random school computer and Google suggested I add the word torrent.

I loled.