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Pirate Bay Domains Blocked By Google

There’s a saying claiming that “bad luck never comes alone”. Following the arrest of Pirate Bay’s founder , the world’s most famous search engine (Google, obviously) has started to censor all Pirate Bay...

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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

France’s Supreme Court May Force Google To Censor Search Results

SNEP – which represents French music royalties – has been trying for years to make Google apply stronger anti-piracy policies when it comes to their autocomplete feature and the association of musical terms...

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Thursday, July 19th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Court May Order Google to Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’

Early 2010 the French music industry group SNEP initiated legal action against Google in an attempt to force the search giant to filter certain terms from its “Instant” and “Autocomplete” features. SNEP argued...

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Google’s Piracy Filter Cuts “Pirate Bay” Searches in Half, But…

For more than a year Google has been filtering “piracy-related” terms from its ‘Autocomplete‘ and ‘Instant‘ services. Google users searching for terms like “torrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare” will notice that no suggestions or...

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Friday, April 20th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

2011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship

At the end of the year when new developments draw to a close, it’s time to take a look back and take stock. Below is our overview of some of the most interesting...

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Saturday, December 31st, 2011 Net News No Comments