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Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
Google and several leading Russian search engines have completely wiped 786 "pirate" sites from their search results. That's according to telecoms watch Rozcomnadzor, which reports that the search providers delisted the sites after ISPs were ordered by a Moscow court to permanently block them. TorrentFreak reports: Late July, President Vladimir Putin signed a new law which requires local telecoms watchdog Rozcomnadzor to maintain a list of banned domains while identifying sites, services, and software that provide access to them. [...] Nevertheless, on October 1 the new law ("On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection") came into effect and it appears that Russia's major search engines have been very busy in its wake. According to a report from Rozcomnadzor, search providers Google, Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler, and Sputnik have stopped presenting information in results for sites that have been permanently blocked by ISPs following a decision by the Moscow City Court. "To date, search engines have stopped access to 786 pirate sites listed in the register of Internet resources which contain content distributed in violation of intellectual property rights," the watchdog reports. The domains aren't being named by Rozcomnadzor or the search engines but are almost definitely those sites that have had complaints filed against them at the City Court on multiple occasions but have failed to take remedial action. Also included will be mirror and proxy sites which either replicate or facilitate access to these blocked and apparently defiant domains.
when your homepage is Google, and you don't need to click in the address bar to move the cursor because the cursor's already in the Google search textbox.
CTRL+T, then CTRL+L. I don't know what this homepage thing is you speak of. But I think I saw one when I first installed my browser. Now it's just my current tabs.
And I already have my address bar set up to query Google, so I usually don't have to type the whole thing or worry about spelling.
If I do a naughty search on google, I get:
we have removed 6 results from this page.
If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaints that caused the removals at LumenDatabase.org
followed by a bunch of links to pages at Lumen, full of pirate URLs . What a resource! They should call it PirateDatabase.org.
Thanks Warner Bros etc for doing the hard work of finding the good pirate sites for me.
Somebody should write a simple search engine that just returns links from DMCA complaints within LumenDatabase.org
Same reason women have fat friends, so they're the skinny one.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.