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on Wednesday February 26 2014, @05:30PM
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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: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Wednesday February 26 2014, @10:17PM
Damn good points.
I've never for one second equated theft with copyright infringement. It doesn't matter what people say, it's logically and linguistically precluded from being theft. It's like trying to argue that the sky is purple and the tooth fairy exists.
At this point though, I do equate piracy with copyright infringement. The old style piracy on the high seas is mostly relegated now to very poor and unsophisticated people that have turned it into an economy, because their country is so screwed up, it can't run a normal economy.
The rhetoric of the oppressor extends far beyond calling unpopular or unwanted (to the old guard anyways) activity acts of crime in such a willfully ignorant and manipulative fashion, but also includes whole hosts of logical fallacies, doctored reports and statistics, hand waving regarding their own much larger and actual crimes against the 'victims', and entirely new and fabricated ontological interpretations that ownership of imaginary property needs to be made real.
That's their biggest and most dangerous lie: Intellectual property is real, it should be owned forever like an asset, and laws and resources need to be created to enforce it, regardless of the serious and quite obvious detriments to privacy, anonymity, innovation, intellectual freedom, and a free society in general.
Calling them the oppressor is like calling Darth Vader a puppy.
They're terrorists, but unlike terrorists, continue to win. Not in little victories against a nameless swarm attacking them, but by laying siege and utterly destroying any environment that supports the nameless swarm. To do that, they will destroy everything. In the name of control and money.
This is why the average person will wake up one day and find that their level of freedom in the real world is non-existent. Their freedoms in cyber-space are non-existent and the interconnection between the real world and cyber-space will be so complete, that being controlled in cyber-space is to be controlled in the real world.
It makes me sad. The Internet made cyber-space such a place full of wonder, equality, innovation, and potential. An unprecedented exchange of ideas and art.
No wonder it had to die.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.