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.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 26 2014, @10:53PM
If the (RI|MP)AA don't understand the obsolescence of their business model by now, it is because they refuse to learn. Good lord, it's been what, 15 years since Napster? They still don't understand that the good ship lollipop has sailed? Netflix and iTunes have even gone out of their way to show them a path to continued relevance, much like you would show your developmentally disabled cousin how to tie his shoes for the eightieth time, and they still insist on this nonsense? Would someone, Google, Apple, anyone just buy the entire content industry with the spare change they have rattling around in their pockets and put them out of their misery already? Buy the whole kit and kaboodle and finally bring the film/TV/music production activity current with technology and the ways the kids are consuming it nowadays.
Washington DC delenda est.