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Chilling Effects DMCA Archive Censors Itself

Posted by Soulskill on from the DMCA'd-the-definition-of-irony dept.

An anonymous reader sends this report from TorrentFreak: The much-praised Chilling Effects DMCA archive has taken an unprecedented step by censoring its own website. Facing criticism from copyright holders, the organization decided to wipe its presence from all popular search engines. A telling example of how pressure from rightsholders causes a chilling effect on free speech. ... "After much internal discussion the Chilling Effects project recently made the decision to remove the site’s notice pages from search engines," Berkman Center project coordinator Adam Holland informs TF. "Our recent relaunch of the site has brought it a lot more attention, and as a result, we’re currently thinking through ways to better balance making this information available for valuable study, research, and journalism, while still addressing the concerns of people whose information appears in the database."

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  1. Is there such a thing as a P2P search engine? by Karmashock · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because we appear to need one. And I don't mean an engine that search P2P torrents or something but rather one that is like google or Bing but run P2P sort of like Tor or something.

    It doesn't need to be fast. It just needs to work.

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  2. Chilling Effects Firefox extention? by lhaeh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seems like a firefox extention would be a good way to solve this.

  3. Somebody should mirror the site by russotto · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Mirror the site, add links to each page back to the original, and make the mirror indexable. The site can't be so fast-changing this is impractical.