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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.
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.
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 :)
In much the same fashion as Guns don't kill people, People kill people
Ironic, given that Google has banned guns from certain searches.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
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. . . .
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
you managed to misspell Metallica twice.