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nocturn
January 18th, 2005, 02:37 PM
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
January 18th, 2005, 03:09 PM
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
January 18th, 2005, 03:11 PM
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
January 18th, 2005, 03:13 PM
This is nothing new, seen it about a year ago :)
nocturn
January 18th, 2005, 03:47 PM
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
January 19th, 2005, 06:33 PM
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
January 20th, 2005, 04:46 AM
The complaint was filed by the owner of KaZaA.
Randabis
January 20th, 2005, 05:53 AM
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
February 12th, 2005, 06:37 PM
http://www.nutch.org/docs/en/about.html might be interesting if it's not dead.
tim1
February 12th, 2005, 06:59 PM
Funnily the blocked sites are listed in the paper google links to.
KiwiNZ
February 12th, 2005, 09:18 PM
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 .
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