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Oz to turn pirates into vampires: You won't see their images in mirrors

mark l 2 Silver badge

Do the Australian government think that Google builds it search index by hand or manually approves entries before they show up in the results?

It would be almost impossible for Google to remove every link to say a website like The Pirate Bay from it's search results without blocking legitimate websites, such a perhaps a blog article discussing TPB, or a URL shortener that had been used to link to the infringing site.

Sure Google could probably do more but they are never going to stop piracy by blocking websites, In fact I expect the next big thing for piracy will be people using messaging apps similar to Whatsapp, Telegram etc to distribute content over end to end encryption which will be much harder to stop.

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