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Originally Posted by adultmobile
And so if those million's of people using google to find pirate stuff will NO more find it in first page, they will switch to search of bing, yahoo or specific warez search engines, simply, making a fortune of these search engines.
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Yes that is entirely possible but those specific warez search engines cannot claim "we're like google" anymore. Because to be like Google, they'll need to start punishing piracy sites too which will make them useless for surfers because they do not index anything else except for piracy sites.
That means Google is setting of what actually is a legal precendent. Now the next time a site like Isohunt or Torrentz.eu is dragged to court, they cannot scream "we're just a neutral search engine like google" anymore like they did since times immorial. No policy against repeat offenders, you're not like Google. Period.
The importance of what Google just did is not simply that piracy sites will start getting less of Google traffic, although that is very important too. But their latest move also provides a weapon to sue piracy search engines like Isohunt/Torrentz.eu/Filestube/Filetram into oblivion.