nsane.forums Posted August 10, 2012 Share Posted August 10, 2012 Google announced today that it will lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high number of DMCA takedown requests, independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not. The algorithm change is the result of extensive lobbying efforts by Hollywood and the major music labels, and could severely degrade the rankings of websites such as The Pirate Bay, FilesTube, and even YouTube. For years entertainment industry groups have lobbied search engines to penalize sites that link to a high number of copyrighted files, and today Google has given in to their demands. The search engine will soon take into consideration the number of DMCA takedown notices it receives against sites to determine the ranking of those websites in its search results. “Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results,” Google’s Amit Singhal writes in a blog post. Earlier this year Google decided to publish all takedown requests online as part of their transparency report, and they will now use this data as part of their search algorithm. This means that websites for which Google receives a high number of valid takedown requests will be penalized. The top receivers of these notices over the past year were filestube.com, extratorrent.com, torrenthound.com, bitsnoop.com and isohunt.com. They can expect to appear lower in future search results and will therefore receive less traffic through Google searches. Whether Google will downgrade YouTube, where (tens of) thousands of videos are routinely disabled because of alleged infringements, is unknown at this point. Google stresses that it doesn’t know whether content is authorized or not, so removal of pages from its search results will only take place following a valid DMCA takedown notice. “Only copyright holders know if something is authorized, and only courts can decide if a copyright has been infringed; Google cannot determine whether a particular webpage does or does not violate copyright law,” Singhal writes. “So while this new signal will influence the ranking of some search results, we won’t be removing any pages from search results unless we receive a valid copyright removal notice from the rights owner.” One of the main problems with Google’s new ranking is that perfectly legitimate content on sites with a high number of takedown requests will be degraded as well. Taking YouTube as an example, millions of relevant and legal search results will be degraded simply because there are a high number of “unauthorized” videos posted to the site. Adding the high number of bogus DMCA notices which Google sees as valid, many sites may also be punished for the faulty takedown requests that copyright holders send. That’s worrying to say the least. For Hollywood and the major music labels Google’s announcement is a clear win. In fact, it was one of the three demands they handed out to Google, Bing and Yahoo last year during a behind-closed-doors meeting. The other two demands were “prioritize websites that obtain certification as a licensed site under a recognized scheme” and “stop indexing websites that are subject to court orders while establishing suitable procedures to de-index substantially infringing sites.” Whether Google will also adopt these suggestions remains to be seen. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaindc Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 so...Hollywoods mafias have their ways, again.starting next week, Google will go downhill, peoples will use other search engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 what is the point of a search engine if it gives you crap instead? goole needs a new ceo board. out with the libs and in with something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesiPirate Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 I use google only because it gives useful search results as compared to other search engines.Maybe its time to find an alternative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onix Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Google need to move their office in another country as USA is full of crap politicians and Hollywood is controlling everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbojet2011 Posted August 11, 2012 Share Posted August 11, 2012 Just use Altavista dot com they dont track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anuseems Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Google to demote websites with pirated content Google receives a lot of URL takedown requests - 4.5 million in the past month alone. To address this problem, the search giant says it will push "bad" sites (those with allegedly copyright infringing content) further down its ranked search results, with the aim of helping users find quality sources of legal content more easily. A recent blog post from Amit Singh, Google's senior vice president of engineering, announced that it will use around 200 signals - an important one being the number of 'valid copyright removal notices' - to dictate how their "search algorithms deliver the best possible results." Sites with a high number of notices will be pushed to the bottom of the pile, but they will not actually be removed. Counter-notice tools will also be available to pursue reinstatement for those wanting to challenge the decision. Google's Transparency Report stats paint a picture of an overwhelming volume of take-down requests coming from copyright owners and reporting agencies, particularly since May. Last month, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent nearly 850,000 removal requests, the British Recorded Music Industry just over half a million, while requests from Degban, a copyright protection company, exceeded one million. The response from the British Recorded Music Industry representative voice, BPI, to Google's new policy is certainly as expected. We have argued for some time that sites with a lot of illegal content should feature lower in search rankings, based on the notifications we send to Google... we welcome the announcement from Google and will be pressing other search engines to follow suit. However, not everyone is happy with Google appeasing the copyright industry with this approach. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is concerned that take-down notices are simply accusations of copyright infringement. ...demoting search results – effectively telling the searcher that these are not the websites you're looking for – based on accusations alone gives copyright owners one more bit of control over what we see, hear, and read. The EFF also claims that Google has insufficient information to justify dropping search results down the list. Although the point of the action is to reduce the prominence of 'dubious' allegedly pirate websites, sites with legitimate legal content, like YouTube and Flickr, might surely be at risk as well. Google says because take-down notices are just one of many factors used for ranking search results, legitimate content will remain unaffected. But it also stresses that the search engine will not create a 'whitelist' to exempt certain sites. This means that established sites like YouTube will be treated just like all the others. TechDirt points out that not only should Google resist responding to insatiable big business demands, it also says that demoting websites with alleged pirated content simply won't work. Problematically, this practice assumes that users are too stupid to spot the difference between legitimate and illegal links. The people doing such searches know exactly what they're looking for. The real problem is not that Google is showing it to them, it's that the traditional entertainment industry players aren't providing users what they want. I can appreciate the balancing act Google is facing: pressures to do more to address infringement from the copyright industry on one side and the importance of maintaining a trusted service to its user base. By treating the symptoms of copyright infringement, the worry is that it is ignoring the root cause. Rather than go down this road, perhaps big content providers should think hard about why users illegally download in the first place and respond by delivering content in ways that truly reflect consumer demand. source http://nakedsecurity...irated-content/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 16, 2012 Administrator Share Posted August 16, 2012 Naked security is late this time. Threads merged. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabben Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I think we must clear some misunderstandings in this topic. Google is 1 company with limited resources. Of course they have lots of money but if they spend all of them on lawyers they can't develop or invent new technologys. So they took the easy way to get rid of stupid RIAA and other crap organizations lawyers.In a healthy society people would already smash these organizations to the ground because these organizations are playing the modern mafia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Try the search engine in my sig. Fook google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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