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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
@Kane
I have to disagree with the above to some extent;
Google has lost some major court decisions ( See GFY post ) particularly in the EU and its courts.
I guess "proof of concept" would be doing that 'Lincoln Lawyer torrent' search again Monday and see what you get ... If that result has not been manually edited, Google will just fall-back to their position that the result was just chosen by a computer program and if legally challenged on this ? assert the "law of stupidity." In other words, there is no law against being stupid (we could not build enough jail cells).
They claim that they do not edit their algorithm's chosen results. So, there is no "mia culpa." Of course this is a farce ? Google designed the algorithm that determined the result, did they not?
Classic Catch-22 ... |
I guess that is part of the beauty of being a company like Google is that you can always claim it was just the computer system indexing and that human eyes didn't see the result and therefore didn't edit it. Like you say, claim stupidity.
I doubt they will manually edit it, like I said you can enter just about any movie title with the word torrent on the end of it and get a result from one of the bigger torrent sites. That said, I won't be surprised if somewhere down the road there are laws changed/passed that make it more difficult for search engines to just list sites that are clearly listing copyrighted material without permission.