Type the words The Pirate Bay in the search field today, it will not be the same The result that a week ago.
Google has gone into their systems and changed the results after a complaint from the movie and record industry. At the bottom of search results is the reason why Google removed The result, as well as a link to the right organization Chilling Effects, where the complaint letter will be posted in its entirety.
Earlier a spokesman for The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde reacted to the removal by sending out a Twitter message that read:
"Ok, can someone from Google please answer: why is" thepiratebay.org "(front) removed from their index?"
When a Google user is now looking for cues The Pirate Bay comes mainly results from news and other sites in Google's results.
Although several Pirate Bay pages removed from Google's index, are some results from the Pirate Bay website up.
U.S. law
The search results are removed pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which regulates the amount of copyright infringement on the Internet. This will also have consequences for everybody, as Google has chosen to make the changes global.
The trend worries rights organistations that looks at an increasingly restrictive internet.
- On a general basis, the Google has shown a tendency to not be a neutral provider of search results as they were before. - Before they laid out everything that was available, but lately they have made adjustments, such as in China where they have specially made a search for the country after political pressure from China's leadership.
- Apparently, they have allowed themselves to push economic to remove some of the results. What is so special is that they now do so on behalf of subsistence projection industry after the sentence in Sweden. - This is not a court ruling in a country that does not necessarily mean that the content of the page is illegal in all countries. It is like saying that Google follows the entertainment industry's promise and not the individual country laws.
It is Google's search engine, and they do as they like.
