Google: the pirates' best friend?

Much griping over nothing

Murdoch complaining of losing his monopoly again.
Google is search engine not a provider of music or films it is up to the user to decide which links to click on. So if he clicks on illegal sites its the user that's at fault not Google.

By curiousclive on 14 Apr 2012

Small, and baseless rant.. Sorry

OMG this article annoyed me so much... I feel a rant coming on

Oh and the rights groups don't poor millions into lobbying

Google provides a search of the Internet. Free from any bodies tastes or preferences. Google tries to give you the best results for what you are looking for. It is not its fault that there are sites that have illegal material. The e-crime unit of the police should deal with this not google. If you see a crime, report to police. let's say a theft in a store happened, you don't got to the manager of the store and say why are you allowing this in your store. 

God the rights holders are such d***heads. They are still earning millions. They just don't know what to do with it. So they waste it on trying to get even more money. 
This take down service would be mis used a lot. And probably already has been. 

You say dodgy site, but google does not sit there rampaging through every site for every keyword. They simply have a system. Come on pcpro you know this, you did an article on how google works in your magazines, perhaps it would help if some other people read it too.

Google is not the law. Police is not going to go to your house and say why did you not stop those robbers. No they will not do that. They will investigate. Is the police so undertrained and useless in these technology things. They should be bringing down the people who put up the sites. Not block them in google. 

There should be a world wide agreement regarding the website owner disclosure, so that lets say if your website hosts large amount of illegal material, you will be sought after by the law.

There are a lot of SEO optimisation companies out there, that the music industry can use in order to increase visibility. They are able to advertise with google. Simple. 

Consumers confused. Of course yes. I would lead you to a nice meme here.
Really. People would go to sites and see a torrent. Download it. Oh wait you need to set up utorrent or equivalent. Doubt this is done by accident. 

And so we come to the end of my little rant. Let me get a few things straight. The right holders are fighting a losing battle. 
Nobody ever will switch to other search engines.
Music industry must learn, artists are the main component of music, not the company. You just steal money from the artists. That's why everybody hates you and nobody cares
Movie industry. The only thing. I would say now is make more downloadable content in hd. For let's say cinema prices. And I would say you should be Fine.
But you are also fighting a losing fight, free + Almost no threat of police finding you. It is. Crime of opportunity. You know you will get away it's it. 
And as times go forward. People will switch to encrypted methods of downloading. And that's it. Nobody will ever get caught this way...

By mobilegnet on 14 Apr 2012

mobilegent's rant

mobilegent: I totally agree with you regarding the movie industry - if they focussed on getting HD movies online and downloadable for cinema type prices (like netflix and lovefilm have begun doing), I think the volume of movie piracy would drop like a stone. Just like anything - if you price it out of the market, nobody buys and people will find cheaper (free) alternatives, but if it is affordable, people won't be arsed to go looking for crappy torrent files that may or may not work...

By spideryman on 15 Apr 2012

How...

are the rights holders going to find the pirates, if they take Google down or stop them reporting links to pirate content?

Oh, I forgot, they aren't interested, Google has lots of money and a registered address, if they go after the pirates, they will shut up shop and move, before the lawyers turn up for a big pay-day, Google can't do that, so they are a big fast scapegoat that the industry can feast off of and prolong their demise, as opposed to actually doing something about solving the problem.

By big_D on 16 Apr 2012