Google DMCA cencorship

[nocturn]

I just saw a post on the Gentoo forums that concerns me.

The link is: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=281519



Today, a friend pointed out a rather disturbing thing. It was the little notice he found on the bottom of a page while looking up information on various filesharing programs. The note was as following:

Quote:
In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 4 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.


Does anyone here know something about this?

[Buffalo Soldier]

I'm using the internet from Malaysia. The google URL that I went to is www.google.com.my and I'm experiencing the same thing. I searched for the words "kazaa filesharing" and at the bottom of the search result is stated:


In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.

http://www.google.com/search?q=kazaa+filesharing&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[nocturn]

I'm using the internet from Malaysia. The google URL that I went to is www.google.com.my and I'm experiencing the same thing. I searched for the words "kazaa filesharing" and at the bottom of the search result is stated:



http://www.google.com/search?q=kazaa+filesharing&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I feared so. The crazy thing is that the DMCA is US only, it has no validity anywhere else.

[node]

This is nothing new, seen it about a year ago :)

[nocturn]

This is nothing new, seen it about a year ago :)

I hadn't seen it before, probably because I have not run searches that trigger such a notice.

What worries me is that instead of using a law to take down a site, they are getting stuff banned from a search engine, which IMO should be content neutral.

I can only imagine what else they can ban using this tactic...

[machiner]

Apparently Google continues to bow to political and corporate pressure.

A real first-amendment respecting search portal would never filter its SERPS - but Google has always bowed to the pressure of corporations and governments.

Google is no longer a tool for the masses, it's beginning to smell like 1984 around here.

As usual, I recommend different search engines be employed.

machiner

[emperor]

The complaint was filed by the owner of KaZaA.

[Randabis]

I feared so. The crazy thing is that the DMCA is US only, it has no validity anywhere else.
Google is a US based company, and thus must adhere to its laws. I think it sucks too :(

[sard]

http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/about.html might be interesting if it's not dead.

[tim1]

Funnily the blocked sites are listed in the paper google links to.

[KiwiNZ]

It annoys me as I connect to google.co.nz and the DMCA mean jack diddly here.
However I do support efforts to stop illegal downloading .