Slashdot Mirror
Google Blocks Pirate Search Results Prophylactically (torrentfreak.com)
Google is accepting "prophylactic" takedown requests to keep pirated content out of its search results, an anonymous reader writes, citing a TorrentFreak report. From the article: Over the past year, we've noticed on a few occasions that Google is processing takedown notices for non-indexed links. While we assumed that this was an 'error' on the sender's part, it appears to be a new policy. "Google has critically expanded notice and takedown in another important way: We accept notices for URLs that are not even in our index in the first place. That way, we can collect information even about pages and domains we have not yet crawled," Caleb Donaldson, copyright counsel at Google writes. In other words, Google blocks URLs before they appear in the search results, as some sort of piracy vaccine. "We process these URLs as we do the others. Once one of these not-in-index URLs is approved for takedown, we prophylactically block it from appearing in our Search results, and we take all the additional deterrent measures listed above." Some submitters are heavily relying on the new feature, Google found. In some cases, the majority of the submitted URLs in a notice are not indexed yet.
I thought prophylactils were extinct.
Not sure what this means. Is it related to prolapse ?
designed for HER pleasure?
WoW! Who knew Trojans could be so useful.
MY laptop has ridges.
For HER pleasure.
Yes, yes, let the hate flow through you.
Google is, at this point, privatized corporate law enforcement. In more ways than one.
You're either decentralizing ALL of your shit, or you are prey waiting to be milked for fun and profit.
How effective are condoms against pregnancy?
If you use condoms perfectly every single time you have sex, they’re 98% effective at preventing pregnancy. But people aren’t perfect, so in real life condoms are about 85% effective
I expect even worse numbers for google....
It is probably for the best. There's a lot of people who end up mining coins, ransoming their computer, and otherwise getting messed up because they simply don't know how to pirate content safely.
But for 9.95, you can read my book on how to safely and securely download all the content you want with never a worry in the world.
What's up, people? Why isn't anybody discussing how to get around this problem?? Help a brother out!
Seems like google has rendered itself totally useless
Any useful search engine available for warez?
Google sure does hate allowing poor people access to cultural data.
This is absolutely wrong!! Google is a Search Engine Not The Police of the Internet! That is like Google blocking searches for Gay's because it is illegal in some places. Or it is like blocking searches for Marijuana because it is Federally illegal. Google should NEVER block anything. If the someone has an issue with a search then they need to work on stopping the source not killing the messenger. My 2 cents!
I can't see YouTube or Google Books' industrial-scale copyright violations being stopped by this new policy, can you? And Scribd is the biggest piracy site on the Web as far as normal punters are concerned; will it get blocked? I doubt it.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I don't use Google services for anything anymore, and on my network we block Google including the use of their 8.8.8.8 DNS server. If you want to use another DNS server not belonging to your ISP I suggest Quad 9 (9.9.9.9) by IBM which still has some filtered results, but 9.9.9.10 is supposed to be unfiltered.
I miss that.