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on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.
from the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't dept.
Fluffeh writes:
According to TorrentFreak, Google is downranking The Pirate Bay's website in its search results for a wide variety of queries, some of which are not linked to copyright-infringing content. Interestingly, the change mostly seems to affect TPB results via the Google.com domain, not other variants such as Google.ca and Google.co.uk.
It also seems that Google may only be downranking searches that are explicitly looking for copyright-infringing content, not searches that are simply looking for The Pirate Bay itself. It will be interesting to see whether this is a backhanded effort to appease the media companies, or a taste of things to come to all the Google domains.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by dime on Wednesday February 26 2014, @07:28PM
You're missing a step there. In between pirate radio of the 50's and before the internet existed, both warez groups on bbses and the BSA called it piracy. And more from the latter. Informational packets from the BSA in the 80's/90's used the term piracy when talking about warez.
Before... 95 when mp3's came out, there was almost no music in the scene except for the best kind, the midi files embedded inside the bbs ads. So it wasn't music sharing from Napster that linked them to pirate radio, if that's what you were implying.