Re: Google in freetard-friendly copyright infringement update

Hi Chris,

Yes and no :-) . But remember Google is forever 'tidying up' its 
algorithm; for that reason one is talking about a managed search result 
anyway. This does place responsibilities on Google; and observing civil 
and well as criminal law must be among those. Since Google is also 
leading the way in delivering advertiser-friendly [or do I mean searcher 
history] results, the days of vanilla plain listings, which I think your 
argument predicates, are over. And we are talking also about the order 
of the listings; most searchers do not go beyond page one, and few 
beyond page two.

I think your second argument, about aiding take-down, is a bit like not 
worrying too much about back of van traders selling toxically rotten 
fish, because the smell will lead you to them. And, let me say, stopping 
listing pirate sites in search is much, much easier that forcing take 
downs, only to have the pirate turn up the next day under another 
domain. I suppose the central question is: should a facilitator be 
entitled to facilitate illegal acts?

Joseph

On 07/09/2011 04:43, Robotech_Master wrote:
> And even if they are, I fail to see Google doing anything wrong. The
> point of a search engine is that you can find anything on the Internet
> on it. People might not like it that you can find stuff on there they
> don't like...just like they don't like that free speech means people
> can say stuff they don't like. But search engines are SUPPOSED to
> index everything, even stuff people don't like.
>
> If people don't like that you can find copyright violations on Google,
> well, maybe THEY should be using Google to find those very copyright
> violations so they can send take-down notices to the people actually
> hosting them, and be glad Google lets them track those down.
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Jon Jermey<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> So an anonymous poster on the TorrentFreak blog has become a reliable
>> source for information on copyright infringement now?
>>
>> Jon.
>>
>> On 07/09/11 10:34, joseph harris wrote:
>>      
>>> [A reminder of the biggest copyright breach problem, but also an insight
>>> into how organised piracy is.]
>>>
>>> * Google in freetard-friendly copyright infringement update
>>> Choc Factory wishes content biz Happy Labor Day... And Nyah!
>>>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/05/google_copyright_update/
>>> '..."Google needs to appease the copyright lobby with these small (and
>>> for people who know what they're doing, *meaningless*) steps, ...'
>>>        
>


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