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Rights holders demand search engines delist 'pirate' web sites
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS have demanded that search engines delist filesharing web sites like The Pirate Bay and give higher rankings to authorised content.
According to Torrent Freak, the demands were made behind closed doors at a UK meeting that was facilitated by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). At the meeting, copyright holders are reported to have handed out a list of demands to Google, Bing and Yahoo.
A document obtained by the Open Rights Group via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request refers to a government overlooked proposal for a "Voluntary Code of Practice" for search engines.
Among the proposals, rights holders want so-called 'pirated' content to be less easy to find, and search engines to instead prioritise web sites that obtain certification as licensed web sites under a recognised scheme. They want to put a halt to indexing websites that are subject to court orders, while establishing suitable procedures to de-index what they call "substantially infringing" web sites altogether.
The copyright holders claim that it is inexcusable that web sites such as The Pirate Bay are still listed when it has been held in some jurisdictions that it might infringe copyrights.
The document also revealed how many top searches linked to so-called 'pirated' material.
Unsurprisingly, the search engines are understood to be unhappy about these rightsholders' proposals, and at a future meeting are expected to offer their own proposals. This meeting and any resolution could be a long time coming, but it seems clear that the copyright holders believe that censorship is the only way forward. µ
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You can spot the music and media
company shills and trolls by the
hate they have for any freedom
on the internet. I refuse
to regard them as any more then
the failed business and drag on
humanity that they are.
The funny thing is that google has been largely doing that for ages now, and I'm sure bing/yahoo too.
So I wonder what searchengine they are going for, or are they simply not even aware that they are being sucked up to already?
Or perhaps they feel it's not really a proper fascist state if it isn't enforced with warrantless unlimited detentions.
Sounds like the MAAFIA want free rankings and placings to me!!
Another example of the MAAFIA wanting someone else to pick up the Tab for their unwillingness to adapt their business model
Google you pay to have Holliwood site ranked listing
FBI/ US Govt you pay for the enforcing
Public you pay EVERY time, own nothing
Hollywood/MAAFIA please continue to avoid your tax liabilities, and protect the jobs and wealth of the 1%
Does that cover it
Oh JP and Alice if you don't have the guts to include your Co and job tile please don't Troll
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Search engines can be sued by rights holders for listing 'possible' nefarious content....under what law / legislation exactly? I mean the search engines are breaking no law they are merely indexing searches, if we are in a world where the mpaa et al can sue google for not doing what they want then we are all truly fecked and may aswell flick the big red internet switch now. When the search engines get involved in the censorship then they too will find a great many will turn from their services on principal rather than because they are pirates.
I wonder, if the RIAA / MPAA had invested as much money in offering services that were easy to use at prices that meant people simply had no need to pirate rather than simply spending money on new blades to cut off the Hydras head how much time and effort they could have saved.
... I thought a search engine is supposed to reveal the most relevant result in a non-biased matter... I mean, that is why it is called a "search" engine and not an advertisement engine... By accepting those demands, Google, Yahoo and the others will surely lose more than a few of the internauts, who will move towards a "purer" search engine... oh, well... adaptation...
Copyright holders can demand this and if the search engines don't comly they can be sued. We'll see how much the search engines want to pay before they comply.
BACK IN THE DAY THEY INVENTED DEWEY DECIMAL WHICH WAS THE WAY YOU COULD FIND A BOOK IN THE LIBRARY, BUT I FOUND ALL KIND OF NEFARIOUS BOOKS IN THAT MANNER AND I IMMEDIATELY KNEW THAT THE CARD CATALOG SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUTLAWED AND DEWEY SLAMMERED AWAY THE DAY HE "GOT SMART". AND THOUGH I HAVE TOLD EVERYBODY I MET THE TRUTHS THAT I REALIZED AS A CHILD IN GRADE 4, YET I WAS BRANDED NUTS, AND NOW GUYS ARE SAYING THE SAME THING ABOUT GOOGLE DECIMAL SYSTEM PROVIDING ACCESS TO THE SAME NEFARIOUS CONTENT AND SOME MAY ARGUE, EVEN MORE NEFARIOUS CONTENT.
WITH RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION,
YOUR CONSTANT & HUMBLE SERVANT, JACK L. SHOUTAR, JR.
Zynga became a large company with 3 percent of people paying for content. So 97 percent of people play for free yet Zynga made money.
Just Sayin'
Don't these people realise that all that will happen is that these sites will be listed by another web search engine which will provide the lists to the sites?
How does that stop it?
Governments who censor "pirate" sites never censor sites that express opinions (or facts) contrary to the Governmnet's position, or which expose Corporate malfeasance, or product safety issues, or religious viewpoints. Why, just look at China, which has such an exemplary record of free and open expression, except for mandatory delisting of "pirate" sites. Of course you want the UK Government to take the side of the MPAA/RIAA/BPI/IFI and censor piracy! Because the Government will stop right there, and never suppress any other free expression.
/sarcasm
Tell me, JP, which of those trade organisations employs you?
And so it goes that more is being done every week to stop copyright infringement by the ethically challenged.