Illegal downloaders of the World Beware. Mmmmhh, on second thought nevermind.
In what's pretty much a move we were all kind of expecting, Google (AKA God) has made a change to its Instant Search feature in order to give us the idea that they really care about all this illegal downloading business.
Starting on January 27th, Google has blocked a list of names for websites such as Megaupload, Rapidshare and BitTorrent from dynamically displaying results as we type our search queries. This move comes after Google announced in December that it had planned a handful of copyright protection initiatives.
Of course, what we all care about is whether this will affect our ability to search, find and download brand new albums like crazies? The answer is NO. All you have to do is keep on typing your query, something like 'download shitty Metallica album Megaupload' and the results will be the same.
As of now, Google can't, or just doesn't care enough, to find out which files are being downloaded illegally and hence, they can't prevent the results from showing up. So enjoy it, while you can, I am pretty sure that in the short run, more drastic measure will be taken.
Read full article here...
In what's pretty much a move we were all kind of expecting, Google (AKA God) has made a change to its Instant Search feature in order to give us the idea that they really care about all this illegal downloading business.
Starting on January 27th, Google has blocked a list of names for websites such as Megaupload, Rapidshare and BitTorrent from dynamically displaying results as we type our search queries. This move comes after Google announced in December that it had planned a handful of copyright protection initiatives.
Of course, what we all care about is whether this will affect our ability to search, find and download brand new albums like crazies? The answer is NO. All you have to do is keep on typing your query, something like 'download shitty Metallica album Megaupload' and the results will be the same.
As of now, Google can't, or just doesn't care enough, to find out which files are being downloaded illegally and hence, they can't prevent the results from showing up. So enjoy it, while you can, I am pretty sure that in the short run, more drastic measure will be taken.
Read full article here...
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