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Google and Microsoft To Crackdown On Piracy Sites In Search Results (telegraph.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the tightening-the-screws dept.

Google and Microsoft pledged on Monday to crack down on sites hosting pirated content that show up on their search engines. In what is being called a first of its kind agreement, Google and Microsoft's Bing will demote U.K. search results of copyright infringing websites. From a report on The Telegraph: The search engine operators have signed up to a clampdown that will see the UK's copyright watchdog monitor the search results they provide for unlawful websites. The agreement follows years of campaigning by record labels and film studios, which have accused Google and Microsoft of turning a blind eye to piracy and dragging their feet over measures to protect copyright online. Under a new voluntary code, the tech giants have committed to demote websites that have repeatedly been served with copyright infringement notices, so that they do not appear on the first page for common searches.

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  1. Working alternative wanted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe some people should learn a thing or two from the music industry and offer a fully working better alternative

    Netflix makes it so easy to watch television but still these people break it.
    Behind my geo-wall I only get about 36% of the USA catalog (~1100 vs ~400) but my 'rent' is similar.

  2. Lumen Database by quenda · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Google is so Alta Vista now.

    Lumen Database is now the king of piracy search engines.
    Just enter the movie/song title into the search box and see all the DMCA complaints, which list all the URLs for that movie.
    Let the MPAA and RIAA do all the hard indexing work for you. Thanks guys!

    example: here are 300 ways to get The Force Awakens. Good job team.