Google Killed 51.4M Links to Copyrighted Material in 2012

[Guest]

Google has dramatically stepped up its efforts to remove links to copyright infringing websites.

Google Killed 51.4M Links to Copyrighted Material in 2012 : Read more

 

[dns7950]

As long as thepiratebay.se is still going strong, nobody cares

 

[Simu]

Internet never goes copyrighted, P2P is non-stopping.

 

[Pherule]

This news doesn't bode well. Duckduckgo or startpage, anyone?

 

[jerm1027]

DuckDuckGo = Win

 

[borisof007]

I use torrentz.eu myself, pretty funny.

 

[Gundam288]

I would LOVE to see the yearly comparison between Google and Bing and maybe Yahoo for Copyright take downs. It would be pretty neat to see how much each company gets in terms of take down request and follow thru.

 

[mobrocket]

Froytal as an interesting client list

 

[jonjonjon]

and it still accomplished nothing. waste of time! time to rethink your methods.

 

[ivanto]

Quadlook is my default browser in Chrome.

 

[NuclearShadow]

Excuse my ignorance on this matter as I am not a pirate. But isn't this fruitless? I just typed torrentz.eu into Google itself and it links to it. Since they don't actually block any mention of the alleged violating site I am guessing they take out very specific pages instead from the search. But if I decided I am going to be a pirate starting now couldn't I just go to torrentz.eu now and just use their search?

What could they possibly achieve in the end if this doesn't curve piracy? Wouldn't it make more sense to leave those links up and then subpoena Google for their records which could very well include information about those who clicked the link? Possibly even down to names and addresses if they happened to be signed into Gmail or another Google service at the time.