BPI wants Google, search engines to censor illegal downloads

Is it me, or has the 'crackdown' on piracy and censorship in general become far more flamboyant since Wikileaks became mainstream?

Coincidental timing.
They're also trying to make a big fuss about piracy around the holiday season season to scare morons into buying things instead of downloading them.

if britain has a problem with google then they can block it.every week on here some group is trying to shut down or intimadate a website which is hosted in another country.If its not hosted in your country you should have no right to do anything to it (not sure about in reality,in theory that should apply).

This sounds like 1984. The music industry wanting the government to dip their hands in everything.

Google and the like are just search engines. They are not nor should they be responsible for the legality or otherwise of the sites your search turns up. What is this China, Iran...?

BPI is making the biggest mistake of its life, you can sue dead grannies,coping machines, ex college students, and poor people. simply because they can't afford the best lawyer and legal advisory committee.

Google can and will crush BPI under its iron fists make no mistake of that.

When you can't make them buy call them terrorists and enforce media consumption at penalty of law.

Not only is wikileaks rolling in the traffic on a global basis, Google is doing it's job surprise surprise. Would Google be popular if it did not search for what your looking for, what is blocking a keyword going to reduce the end result. It will just screw up normal searches due to the search is keyword based as everyone knows.

Until the internet is not a open battlefield, there will all ways be a way and when one shuts down 5 pop up with 1 of them being the next big site to replace the one shutdown.

Face it, your outnumbered. The community will all ways get it's way because we have to and we do not rest until we have control over our freedom.

Originally posted by Zealousi:

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Not only is wikileaks rolling in the traffic on a global basis, Google is doing it's job surprise surprise. Would Google be popular if it did not search for what your looking for, what is blocking a keyword going to reduce the end result. It will just screw up normal searches due to the search is keyword based as everyone knows.

Until the internet is not a open battlefield, there will all ways be a way and when one shuts down 5 pop up with 1 of them being the next big site to replace the one shutdown.

Face it, your outnumbered. The community will all ways get it's way because we have to and we do not rest until we have control over our freedom.

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...Then screw google. If they want to filter results, we will just go elsewhere. The record companies have already lost most of us due to a laundry list of incompetent blunders and policies...now they are going around trying to get others to make the same mistakes. Give the people what they want, when they want it, and for a fair price (or for a free service, without too many advertisements). Fail to do this, and people will start getting the exact same service from someone else for a better deal. This is the foundation of capitalism.

Dumbing down the masses to do as the few say is also capitalism....