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Google Categorically Refuses To Remove the Pirate Bay's Homepage (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: This year alone, at least 15 separate takedown notices ask Google to remove ThePirateBay.org from its index. Most of these are sent by the reporting agency Digimarc, on behalf of book publishers such as Penguin Random House, Kensington Publishing, and Recorded Books. This year alone, at least 15 separate takedown notices ask Google to remove ThePirateBay.org from its index. Most of these are sent by the reporting agency Digimarc, on behalf of book publishers such as Penguin Random House, Kensington Publishing, and Recorded Books. Over the years, The Pirate Bay's homepage has been targeted more than 70 times. While there's no shortage of reports, TPB's homepage is still in Google's index.
Since TPB's homepage is not infringing, Google categorically refuses to remove it from its search results. While the site itself has been downranked, due to the high number of takedown requests Google receives for it, ThePirateBay.org remains listed. Google did remove The Pirate Bay's homepage in the past, by accident, but that was swiftly corrected. "Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed Thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was accidentally removed from the Google search index," Google said at the time. "We are now correcting the removal, and you can expect to see Thepiratebay.org back in Google search results this afternoon," the company added.
Since TPB's homepage is not infringing, Google categorically refuses to remove it from its search results. While the site itself has been downranked, due to the high number of takedown requests Google receives for it, ThePirateBay.org remains listed. Google did remove The Pirate Bay's homepage in the past, by accident, but that was swiftly corrected. "Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed Thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was accidentally removed from the Google search index," Google said at the time. "We are now correcting the removal, and you can expect to see Thepiratebay.org back in Google search results this afternoon," the company added.
'Nuff said.
This is nothing more than self-preservation. TPB is nothing more than a search engine. If they took it down, they'd have to take down themselves.
Have gnu, will travel.
Google ThePirateBay.org so we know how to find it.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Could also be seen as anti-competitive.
The site itself is IP blocked in UK. Not that that makes the slightest difference with all the proxies around.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
You could start by looking up the definition of "categorically".
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Australia too at the ISP level, so trivial to work around
In much the same fashion as Guns don't kill people, People kill people..., sites that allow users the freedom to work within, and well outside the copyright infringement law, are not liable for misuse by those same users.
For example: The cash dollar, or Euro/yen/yuan, can be used for millions of legitimate bartering transactions. Yet, there are categorically provably a small percentage of illegal transactions that result from the sheer anonymity of these cash trades.
It's fair to say Google has developed the ability to skirt the morality of these issues, yet if the possibility of corruption of the system by the users is deemed a blacklisted offense, what happens to Google's Youtube?
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One that actually indexes the entire internet
IP is not blocked in australia (well, not my ISP anyway), the ISPs' DNS servers redirect the domain name to bogus IP. If you use non-australian DNS servers for that specific domain, you get around it.
Did they not send a request, under penalty of perjury, that thepiratebay.org was infringing their copyright when infact they knew it did not?
Can we get someone to send /. a takedown notice to remove one set of "This year alone, at least 15 separate takedown notices ask Google to remove ThePirateBay.org from its index. Most of these are sent by the reporting agency Digimarc, on behalf of book publishers such as Penguin Random House, Kensington Publishing, and Recorded Books." from the summary?
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
Google's own public DNS servers work just fine :)
You could start by looking up the definition of "categorically".
Definition: Horrifically mauled by a cat.
Example: That rat was categorically chewed up.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Sending a false (I'm sorry, "erroneous") DMCA take-down request should get future take-down requests by the submitting entity downranked and de-prioritized in the queue.
Why isn't everyone using OpenNIC with dnscrypt?
No it's not. A few ISPs have blocked it, but none of the ones I've used in recent years (Metronet, Entanet, Merula) have blocked it.
They had to say it not once but twice. This just proves that it must not only be important but that the editors don't do ANY editing. I don't even think they HAVE editors anymore here, just automated repeaters. With all this talk about AI one would think at least THAT would catch something so freaking obvious. Wow They had to say it not once but twice. This just proves that it must not only be important but that the editors don't do ANY editing. I don't even think they HAVE editors anymore here, just automated repeaters. With all this talk about AI one would think at least THAT would catch something so freaking obvious. Wow
Thanks. Loved your show. :-)
( Couldn't resist given your username ... )
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Also, taking down something that also exist on the TOR network as a onion address would be hard :
The Pirate Bay
And speaking of search engines take-downs :
Duck Duck Go, too is available as a onion address on the Tor network.
So similarily in the "not going to happen" category.
(And in an almost completely missing the point kind of irony, I've read that Facebook is also present as an onion on TOR, probably due to country where it is banned. I have no idea if the address is legit, though - too lazy and don't care enough to check it).
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If I search for "The Pirate Bay" on google all I get is proxies and some articles. Meanwhile, same search in duckduckgo places the .org as first hit.
Try filetype:torrent the next time you look for a Mettalica song. https://www.google.co.uk/searc...
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None of those services offer a decent connection
Triggered by errors in a slashdot summary? You must be new here.
you managed to misspell Metallica twice.
The fact that you think the government would only know if Google told them would be quaint if we were somewhere you belong rather than on Slashdot.
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I think you may have repeated yourself, I think you may have repeated yourself. /. to actually fucking proof read their own shit.
Fuck a duck, I would expect people posting articles to
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
They are happy to take down individual result and torrent detail pages though.
I doubt it's got anything to do with the nature of TPB, it's just that the homepage is so sparse that there is nothing infringing on it. Naturally they only process take-downs for pages that actually have infringing content on them.
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I'm so fucking done with Slashdot...
Lets start a new open source version, that doesn't compromise and doesn't sell out...
Would it look anything like SoylentNews? Some people had the same idea as you during the "Buck Feta" era.
Who's Nic and why is he opened to the idea of scrypting a DN?
#DeleteFacebook
Honey pot? Monsanto sure are doing weird cross-breeds these days...
#DeleteFacebook
Depends which ISP you're with. The big UK ISPs which have a vested interest in you not pirating the shit out of stuff because they have a hand in media like Virgin Media, Sky, BT, etc do indeed block. Smaller regional ISPs seem not to bother. Either way, it's trivial to bypass.
God that site needs to be mobile friendly.
I wonder if the headline should have added "except in China".
What an odd, ill-informed comment!
Metronet doesn't exist any more, it was bought out by PlusNet some years ago.
Entanet is a "white-label" wholesale ISP, you can only get its services via a reseller. It's perfectly fine and, like all the others I've used, on my exchange it uses BT wholesale for its backhaul.
Merula is my current ISP and has been absolutely fine - I get something like 72Mbps no matter whether it's day or night, not least because I'm not contending with many other users at the exchange. It also makes "elevated best efforts" available, which increases your traffic priority on BT's network.
I'll be moving to a fibre-on-demand connection with Cerberus soon - they also use BT's backhaul and, unlike larger ISPs, also give access to the whole of the Web. Yes, including the bits that BT retail (as opposed to wholesale), Sky, TalkTalk and the rest block.