Bing Features Pirated 'YTS' Movies and Even Finds Some on YouTube

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Increasingly, homepages of popular pirate sites are disappearing from search engines. In some cases, however, search engines help pirate brands to stand out. Bing, for example, highlights YTS movies with a fancy poster reel and it even manages to spot some full-length pirate releases on YouTube and the Internet Archive.

 

 

For years, entertainment industry groups have been frustrated by the fact that “infringing sites” show up in search results.

 

In fact, some see search engines as a fertile breeding ground for new pirates, as they can direct new users to unofficial sites.

 

Most attention goes out to Google, which is the market leader, but Microsoft’s Bing certainly isn’t ignored. During the first half of 2020, copyright holders asked the search engine to remove over 66 million URLs.

 

Bing has accepted the majority of these requests, over 99.77% to be precise. The company obviously wants to avoid copyright troubles where it can, but sometimes, its own automated features contradict this mission.

In the past, we have covered how Google’s algorithmic features inadvertently promoted pirate brands, and this week we noticed that there are similar problems at Bing.

Bing Features YTS Torrents

When we searched for the term ‘YTS,’ the brand used by one of the largest torrent sites, Bing returned intriguing results. While the most popular YTS site was noticeably absent from the top spot, an eye-catching reel of movie posters showed up.

 

 

This presentation was also used by Google in the past but was removed after it was picked up in the news. However, where Google never linked the movie posters to torrent sites, Bing does.

 

Clicking on any of the images featured in the movie reel will lead directly to a YTS site, where people can download the torrent. So one could say that these catchy posters are advertising torrent downloads.

 

It doesn’t stop there either. When we scroll down -though still on the first page- another movie reel shows up, this time for the more popular and controversial YTS.mx site. Again, the movie posters are linked to the torrent download pages.

 

 

To top it off, Bing also links to a “YTS” video reel, which links to a dedicated video search. That’s quite intriguing as well.

YTS Releases on YouTube, the Internet Archive, and More

The video results don’t show any torrents, since these can’t be streamed from most sites, but a search for YTS movies does link to pirated movies on YouTube and the Internet Archive.

 

These are not the dreaded fake videos that are floating around, but actual full-length pirated films.

 

 

Bing can’t really be blamed for that of course, but the difference to Google is striking. Where Bing shows links to pirated movies, Google features videos that show people how to download from YTS. We’re not really sure which one is better, or worse.

 

Also, after the first YouTube and Internet Archive links, Bing’s video search lists films from the pirate streaming site ytsmovies.to. We certainly haven’t seen these on Google.

 

In summary, we could say that Bing offers exactly what users want. But whether copyright holders will be happy with that is doubtful.

 

It wouldn’t be a surprise if the search engine follows in Google’s footsteps and removes the feature in the near future. Just like many popular pirate sites are slowly vanishing from the top search results.

 

 

Source: TorrentFreak

[steven36]

Bing dont really have enough market share to matter  in the big picture of things .  they only have 2.83 %  of the market Google has 92.3% of the worlds market share so what would they accomplish going after  such a small  player ? Antitrust is going have bring Google  down a lot before  BIng would even  matter  and since Google is what most people use  it don't seem they interested in what Bing has to offer  .DDG and Swisscows  have bing results and are better  for privacy .

 

Its not against the law to talk about piracy  word of mouth  works just fine while Google may not  link to it directly they link to lost of sites that do.Wikipedia list what they call YTS  as a Unofficial clone   they have nothing i'm  interested in really. Many sites i found  trough them posting  uploads  on Big torrent  sites  not trough search engines  powered by Big Tech at all . same with Kodi Addons and free IPTV  i find  on social media and blogs   people on  social media don't have to link  to  it just like google  don't have too ..they can just link to blog who links to a guide that tells were  to find it and how to use it.

 

Back in the old days early 2000s   piracy was not promoted  in search very much you went to blogs that posted  news about  piracy  and they told you the names of the tools you needed to download  stuff  .this is before people used Google much  and warez was drove underground by the FBI.  Wikipedia.org is a good site  to find  real  torrent sites  they dont list  clones like YTS  and EZTV  that stole the names of  sites that don't exist anymore. Also they lost of articles about the  history of warez  .  Torrent news sites like TF gave these clones  lots of press and caused them to get more users  so they just  profit by posting news about these scams.  If  it was against the law to talk about or link to piracy sites torrent freak would of been removed long ago.

 

I'm member at Internet Archive  i can download stuff  were you can only download signed  in, they are a Search engine of stuff removed from the web if its been removed its most likely there so you don't need Bing to find stuff there jut like  most Torrent sites warez blogs have there own search . India is the only Country that try to block them but  they only blocked  HTTP but HTTPS still worked .

 

Bing or Google BTDigg  and its open source code is hosted on GitHub they dont list the url  but the 1st result Wikipedia does have its url  also they link to other sites that link to it . So already all search engines censor  the internet   .  So regardless they link to 3rd party  that link to these sites.  Them removeing sites may deter some noob but a seasoned pirate like me its just as easy as clicking on another site .