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Originally Posted by Robbie
Is that a law? I don't know. Maybe we could finally get an attorney to chime in on this subject? I'd like to know. Because if it is a law, then one would think that those sites would already be De-listed on google.
That's why I'm pretty sure it's not a law. The big Hollywood movie studios and record companies and software companies would have had TPB off of google a long time ago if all it took was a lot of complaints. At least that seems logical to me.
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Do not know why didn't they (major Hollywood studios) put some pressure on Google (probably just poor coordination), but it looks like they could get it delisted if they did:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...ing-pirate-bay
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10...gle_piratebay/
The last article mentions some "firm which specialises in protecting porn copyrights", I wonder wasn't it RYC?
As to whether it is law or not... Well, DMCA is definitely a law, and it requires Google to delist at least the offending pages after getting proper DMCA complaints. Whether it goes to the extent of delisting a site completely after say, 1K of such complaints, I don't know too, but I think that's totally possible, simply because google may get finally sick of it or will consider risks to be too high - they have enough lawsuits already including the huge one from Viacom, and they've already lost several other copyright cases. Maybe the law does not literally requires them to delist a site after 1K complaints were sent, but they may do so just to stay out of trouble.