Google Prepares Piracy Crackdown

[ZippyDSMlee]

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.....

 

[likalaruku]

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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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.

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

Thanx

 

[KiKiweaky]

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.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

People who Pirate regularly will know the names of their sites anyway...

 

[SleepsAnyWhere]

It's like no one has ever heard of TPB, really now. "Google is for kittens and porn not pirates"

 

[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?