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BPI wants Google, search engines to censor illegal downloads
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article published on 17 December, 2010
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), besides posting huge piracy numbers for the UK, has also taken shots at Google, claiming the search engine is used just as often as P2P apps for illegal downloads.
Furthermore, the trade group would like Google and other engines to censor their search results and instead push legal services like iTunes, Amazon and others.
Says the BPI (via TF): ... [ read the full article ]
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17. December 2010 @ 01:34 |
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Is it me, or has the 'crackdown' on piracy and censorship in general become far more flamboyant since Wikileaks became mainstream?
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17. December 2010 @ 01:55 |
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Coincidental timing.
They're also trying to make a big fuss about piracy around the holiday season season to scare morons into buying things instead of downloading them.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. December 2010 @ 01:57
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17. December 2010 @ 02:30 |
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if britain has a problem with google then they can block it.every week on here some group is trying to shut down or intimadate a website which is hosted in another country.If its not hosted in your country you should have no right to do anything to it (not sure about in reality,in theory that should apply).
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17. December 2010 @ 02:50 |
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This sounds like 1984. The music industry wanting the government to dip their hands in everything.
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17. December 2010 @ 11:05 |
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Google and the like are just search engines. They are not nor should they be responsible for the legality or otherwise of the sites your search turns up. What is this China, Iran...?
Just my $0.02,
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17. December 2010 @ 12:25 |
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BPI is making the biggest mistake of its life, you can sue dead grannies,coping machines, ex college students, and poor people. simply because they can't afford the best lawyer and legal advisory committee.
Google can and will crush BPI under its iron fists make no mistake of that.
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17. December 2010 @ 12:35 |
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When you can't make them buy call them terrorists and enforce media consumption at penalty of law.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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17. December 2010 @ 17:13 |
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Not only is wikileaks rolling in the traffic on a global basis, Google is doing it's job surprise surprise. Would Google be popular if it did not search for what your looking for, what is blocking a keyword going to reduce the end result. It will just screw up normal searches due to the search is keyword based as everyone knows.
Until the internet is not a open battlefield, there will all ways be a way and when one shuts down 5 pop up with 1 of them being the next big site to replace the one shutdown.
Face it, your outnumbered. The community will all ways get it's way because we have to and we do not rest until we have control over our freedom.
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17. December 2010 @ 23:49 |
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Originally posted by Zealousi:
Not only is wikileaks rolling in the traffic on a global basis, Google is doing it's job surprise surprise. Would Google be popular if it did not search for what your looking for, what is blocking a keyword going to reduce the end result. It will just screw up normal searches due to the search is keyword based as everyone knows.
Until the internet is not a open battlefield, there will all ways be a way and when one shuts down 5 pop up with 1 of them being the next big site to replace the one shutdown.
Face it, your outnumbered. The community will all ways get it's way because we have to and we do not rest until we have control over our freedom.
But google is starting to mess with results based on piracy and fake child porn.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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18. December 2010 @ 02:05 |
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...Then screw google. If they want to filter results, we will just go elsewhere. The record companies have already lost most of us due to a laundry list of incompetent blunders and policies...now they are going around trying to get others to make the same mistakes. Give the people what they want, when they want it, and for a fair price (or for a free service, without too many advertisements). Fail to do this, and people will start getting the exact same service from someone else for a better deal. This is the foundation of capitalism.
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18. December 2010 @ 02:36 |
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Dumbing down the masses to do as the few say is also capitalism....
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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