Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by RestlessMind on Saturday June 30, 2018 @02:15PM (#17431948)

You know what DDG is doing is illegal, right? Google Images used to link to direct images as well. But then there were lawsuit threats and a settlement with Getty, which forced them to stop linking directly.

If DDG / Bing become big enough, they too will be forced to stop their practice.

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by skellera on Saturday June 30, 2018 @03:00PM (#17432202)

It's not illegal. They were sued then Getty dropped the suit when Google agreed to partner with them and remove the links.

https://9to5google.com/2018/02/09/google-images-features-get...

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by clarry on Saturday June 30, 2018 @03:03PM (#17432213)

Lawsuit threats don't make something illegal.

The case with linking is far from settled.

Legal or not, I don't care though. But I do look forward to highly anonymized p2p networks with useful services and software we can rely on by the time the lawmakers have made the internet useless.

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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by herewegoagain90 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @03:31AM (#17434538)

Interesting! These makes me remember the documentary/movie “Bananas!” which was about the criminal behaviour of the fruit- and vegetable company Dole. During the making the Americans involved in the making got so scared of being sued their house from them that they left the project. The swedes never cared about the threats from Dole. This also made the news on Sweden that even parliament members backed the project and said that Doles threats where so unethical.

Having said that, I think Goggle is just hiding behind the lawsuit threats.

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