Court May Order Google to Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’

http://torrentfreak.com/court-may-order-google-to-censor-torrent-rapidshare-and-megaupload-120718/

by lightspot • 14 years ago

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naner2• 14 years ago

...from its Instant and Autocomplete services.

Still bad but not quite so bad. Actually, I'm a little worried about filtering Instant since that's effectively filtering all of search for many people.

And why bother with filtering Megaupload? It is dead.

stordoff• 14 years ago

> And why bother with filtering Megaupload? It is dead.

The case has been argued in the lower courts, so it was probably included then as it was before the Megaupload takedown.

tomku3• 14 years ago

When something is "censored" from Instant, it just says "Press enter to search" rather than loading it automatically. Nobody who bothered to put "torrent" in the search box is going to be dissuaded by having to press one extra key to see the results.

naner2• 14 years ago

Thank you for clarifying, I just assumed search results would be missing. Which now that I think about it doesn't make much sense.

cageface• 14 years ago

And people just change the names and the whole circus starts all over again.

I'm 100% against copyright infringement but this is energy in the wrong direction.

wmf• 14 years ago

...in France.

grecy2• 14 years ago

I wonder if I had a business that sold legal torrents, would I be able to sue because they are being anti-competitive towards my business?

tomku3• 14 years ago

No, Google is under no legal obligation whatsoever to link to your site, let alone promote your site/topic using keyword autocompletion or instant searches. There's more to the legal definition of "anti-competitive behavior" than "anything that hurts someone else's business", although it's vague enough that I can understand the confusion.

grecy2• 14 years ago

I was actually suggesting suing the government for forcing Google to remove my legal business from the index.

Zenst• 14 years ago

Interesting, so since the FBI seized the megaupload domain at the start of the year. Now apparently it is to be blocked by google thru a court order. Can the FBI be trusted to look after your domain you do have to wonder.

Will make for some interesting stories and legal angles down the line.

malandrew• 14 years ago

What about legitimate uses like "ubuntu torrent" or "centos torrent"?

Court May Order Google to Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’

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